Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27307, William Vickory, S.C.
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Service:                                  Number
Silo.          Vickory, William   W27307
                  Susannah          B.L. Wt. 61302 160-55
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(No. 2) 20.433
Georgia
William Vickory
Fayette Co. in the State of Georgia.
Who was a private in the company commanded 
Captain [Buss] of the Regiment commanded 
Colonel Wilamson in the South Carolina
for the term of twelve months.   1777 to 1778.

2  Nov 1835
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Susannah Vickory
William Vickory
61302 May
No. 160 May 14, 1857
  [Signature]
[Rev] War
Geo Ins July 36
Geo Mar 1818-D.32
[Illegible Signature]
L.B. True
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23 Nov [89]
5379
Georgia
Susannah Vickory widow of William Vickory who died on the 2nd November 1835 of   in the State of SC who was a  in the commanded by Captain of the command in the Revolution line for 10 months. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Savannah at the 41 Dollars 66 cents per anum to commence the 2nd day of November 1835 and end 30th June 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Sept. 1857 and sent to L.B. True Present
Arrears to the 4th of Semiannual allowances ending
[Intrusted] from 30
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1836, Section the
Recorded by Getty Clerk
Book 26 Vol 1 Page 2/2.
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20766
[William] Vickory
Entd on [illegible]
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Georgia,
Fayette County October Terms of [illegible] Court for said County
On this twenty seventh day of October 1828.  [Freedom] ally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Fayette.  William Vickory Sent.  [Use dent] in said County aged eighty two years.  Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the promise made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March [18 8] and the 1st of May 1820 that the said William Vickory enlisted for the terms of twelve months (the day not positively    ) in the year 1776 or 1777 in the state of South Carolina in the Company Commander by Capt. [Illegible] in the [segment] (according to his ) Command it by Colonel Williams on in the line of the State of South Carolina on the Contin.... establishment; the he continues to serve in the said County until the expiration of twelve months when he was discharged from the service in the State of South Carolina that he [illegible] relinquishes every Claim whatsoever to a pension in the present that his claim is not on the roll of any state.  the Militia service of the State of Georgia
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[Illegible] Colonels Clark, Dooly, Coleman at different periods of the war this his [illegible] for not making earlier application for a pension that being of [vision] he had spent most of his time at his humble habitation little Commandant with [illegible] who knew or [illegible] full an interest in his behalf so as to inform him that he was entitled to spend con and consequently until recently was ignorant of the law providing for him.  
And in [illegible]and of the 1st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a [illegible] citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not [illegible] that times by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish as to bring myself with the proviso on of an act of Congress entells "An act [illegible] do for certain persons engages in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War." [illegible] on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any pension in trust for me, any property, or security, contracts, or debts due to me:  nor have I any property or in [illegible] other than what is contained in the schedule hereto announced [illegible] that since the 18th day of March 1818 there has been no changes in my property, other than natural [illegible] of state which has been so [illegible]
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Schedule of Property
2 small heads 20 dollars each 
$50 5 head of Cattle including different ages 25/75 
William [Vickory]
I James Alford Clark of the Supreme Court [afirm]  and do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said William Vickory [illegible] did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months [illegible] under an engagement on the Continental Establishment.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule [illegible] are truly copied from the acor
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Susanna Vickory
Wid. of William Vickory Rev. Pensions
State of Georgia 
Act of 1818 or Act of 1832
May 28 1856
Filed by L. B. True
Present
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State of Georgia County of Fayette
I Mariel L Yates [illegible] of the [illegible] and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said county that William Vickory was a Revolutionary guardsman of the United States at the rate of $96 dollars per annum was a resident of the County of Campbell in the State of Georgia and [dwelt] in the County of Campbell and State of Georgia in the year 1835.  And on the second day of November that he left a widow to [viz] Susannah Vickory who still survived and I further certify that Harrison Walker the Justice of the peace before whom the [foregoing] Declaration and affidavit was made at the date of Signing the same duly appointee and  [illegible] a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County and that his signature as it appears is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my  hand and affixed my seal of office at Fayetteville this 15th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fifty six.
Mariel L Yates clh Ifl
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This for Rev. [Illegible]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State of Georgia
County of Fayette

Be it known that before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, duly authoriz by law to administer oaths within and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Susanna Vickory and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of the identical William Vickory who drew a pension under Act of Congress of 30th May 1830 and at the rate of $96 per annum on account of Revolutionary services of said William Vickory in the [illegible] Continental line under Col. Williamson; also certain [illegible] in Georgia Militia.
That she makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining Land Bounty by reason of said pension under Act of Congress 30 March 1855 also act of Congress.
Sworn to and subscribed on the 2nd day of May 1856 before me Harrison Walker, Justice of the Peace.
Susanna Vickory
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Susanna Vickory
Wed William Vickory
Rev Pensioner
Oct [18320]
for Rev Pension
under Act 1538
No. 3
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State of Georgia
County of Fayette
Be it known that before me, the undersigned a Judge of the Inferior Court duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the the County aforesaid, personally appeared Susanna Vickory in open court made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of identical William Vickory who drew a pension under Act of Congress (20th May 1830) and 7 June 1832 at the rate of $96 per annum on account of the Revolutionary services of said William Vickory in the South Carolina Continental line under Col Williamson.  Also terms in Georgia Militia under Cols. and Dooly and Coleman.
That she makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining the widow's rights of said pension     under the Act of Congress of That her husband said William Vickory was a soldier of the Rev. War under Col. Williamson and Cols. Clark, Dooly and Coleman in the south Carolina Continental line and Georgia Militia. That her maiden name was Susanna Hay.  That she was married to said William Vickory on the first day of June in the year 1775 in the State of South Carolina and County of Chester by Andrew Smith and that she has a family Record of her said marriage.  That her and said  husband William Vickory died on the second day of November in the year 1835 and that she remains the widow of said William Vickory.
Sworn to and subscribed on the 2nd day of May 1856 before me.  Wm S Thurmond, Judge of the Inferior Court Fayette
state of Georgia
County of Georgia
Susannah Vickory
on this tenth day of May 1856, personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, duly athorized by law to administer oaths in and for the County aforesaid, Andrew Smith and William Jennings and made oath in due form of law that they were personally acquainted with William Vickory, deceased.  Revolutionary pensioner, formerly of South Carolina and late of Campbell County Georgia that he drew a pension at a rate of 96 dollars per annum.  That he was at the time of his death a resident of Campbell County, Georgia, that he died on the 2nd day of November 1835, and that there  now survives the following named
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Susanna Vickory the identical widow of said William Vickory.  And they further testified that said William Vickory and said Susanna Vickory was married early as the date given in the foregoing statement of the same.
Also that they have no personal interest in the claim herein [asserted].
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Andrew Smith
William Jennings
Harrison Walker Justice of the Peace
State of 
County of
On this day of   , 185, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, duly authorized by law to administer oaths in and for the County aforesaid, a Minister of the Gospel, and made oath in due form of law, that he officiated at the funeral ceremonies and burial of   on the  day of  18  , at  County of   and State of  
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Justice of the Peace.
State of Georgia
County of Fayette
On this tenth day of May 1856 personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, duly authorized by law to administer oaths in and for the County and State aforesaid, George Yarbrough and made oath in due form of law that he did dig a grave on the second day of November, 1856 for William Vickory a Revolutionary pensioner and assisted in burying him.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.  George Yarbrough
Harrison Walker Justice of the Peace.
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Section 5
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a Revolutionary pensioner died
on the second day of November as above stated.  I also certify that Andrew Smith, William Jennings, and George Yarbrough deponents to the foregoing affidavits are personally known to me as persons in whose statements entire confidence may be reposed.
Harrison Walker Justice of the Peace
State of Georgia
County of Fayette
I Mariel Yates, Clerk of Interior Court holden at Fayettevlle, in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that William Vickory was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96 dollars per annum was a resident of the County of Campbell in the State of Georgia, and died in the County of Campbell and State of Georgia in the year 1835 and on the second day of November.  That he left a widow Susanna Vickory who still survives and I further certify that William Thurmond and Harrison Walker the Judge and Justice of the peace [whereas] the foregoing Declaration and affidavit was made on the date of signing the same duly [illegible] for the said County and that their signatures as they appear are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Fayetteville this 13th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six
Mariel L Yates. Clerk of the Interior Court of Said County
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File no. 27307
Susannah Vickory Wid. Of William Vickory
(Illegible): Rev War
Act: July 4th, 1836
Index:  Vol M page (illegible)
Arrangement of 1870
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Boynton
Vickory
and 
William
His Hon G.C. Whitney
Com pension
Present
Rev. Claim for Said Suspended
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No. 8166
Susanna Vickory
Widow of William
                Georgia
B True June 26 1836
Lt. sam July 31/56
Same September 22/56
Rejected
J.J. Coombs Feb 10/57
Sec of Interior July 29th/57
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[New Census]
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Washington DC May 27/6
Hon. Judge Minot
         Corn. Pen.
Enclosed herewith is application of Susanna Vickory of Georgia, widow of William Vickory Rev. pension for her Bounty Land under Acts of Congress 1855 & 1856
James [illegible]
Most [illegible]
L. B. True
Present
Agent in this case
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Susannah Vickory
Widow of William 
Georgia Fayette Co.
[After] July 4, 1836 for increases
Admitted
10 mos Private of Cavalry as $41.66 per annum from Nov 2, 1835 when he died to July 1st 1848 when her pension was increased as $96 per annum: deducting former payments as $30 per annum
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Susannah Vickory
widow of William 
Georgia Fayette Co.
Act July 4, 1836
Admitted
Private 9 months at $30 per annum from Nov 2, 1835, when he died to July 1st 1848, and from that date at $96 per annum.
Certificate payable to Claimant
Atty
L Blanchard True
Present
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5379
Georgia
Susannah Vickory
widow of William who died on 2nd Nov 1835
of in the State of who was a private of cavalry in the commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the Revolution line for 10 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Savannah at the rate of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 1st day of July 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of August 1857 and sent to L. B. True Present
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semiannual allowances ending
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 
Recorded by G T Getty clerk
Book H Vol 1/page 212
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Fayette 29th dist
Jackson Vickory 26 yrs
Meay Vickory 29 yrs
Wm D Vickory 9 yrs
Jackson Vickory 6 yrs
James A Vickory 4 yrs
Marcus Vickory 1 yr
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Jane Vickory 70
Campbell p 837
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Gerogia
[Hall] County
personally came William Elet who being duly [illegible]
before me William Alexander one of the Justices of said county for district [No] four hundred and thirteen and saith that he knew William Vickory
[illegible] the old Revolution War in or about the year 1775 or there about and he was a listed soldier for one year also previous to that in service for the space of three years and fought for his country under John Dooly and Colonel Elija Clark all in the state of Georgia.
May Elliott  Wm Alexander
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Lumpkin 45 Pensions
William Vickory
Dec 11 1827
[Ref from  = Mil. Pensions] 
Dec 12 1828
[Ref from = Mil Pensions]
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Fayette County
The [illegible] of William Vickory humbly [unknown] that during the Revolutionary War he loved his country in the campaign hereafter mentions, and had been informed that the government of the United States had made provisions to [illegible] the wants of those who spent the points of their lives in their country's service, but who now are from age unable to procure a date; [instince] by labour; your [litionary] case is a [uculion]one, [illegible] is of  fortune has [proven] to him from accumulating property and now, age & infirmity, render him altogether unable by his labor to procure wherewith to smith his [illegible] through the few days of his life which yet remains between him this [grave]; and not knowing that his discharge would ever be of further service to him than in a military point of view.  He was [illegible] of them, and has lost them and therefore can only defend for the evidence upon which his claim is founded to be found upon the record in the department of War by referring to the dates and returns of the officers under whom he served which are.
soon after the commencement of the war, a twelve months tour under Capt. Buir, of the 5th regiment [riflemen] of the regular service, at the time of the seize of "ninety six" a then months tour under (the [illegible] of the captain not now remembered) but after Regiment of Cavalry Commanded by Col Samuel Hammond of South Carolina.
The balance of the war was spent in militia service.  Your [petitioner?] is [illegible] to make this effort to procure
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a something, to [illegible] the few remaining days of his life comfortable, not without fear however, that the evidence of his services to which he has [refined] may have been destroyed with the capitol in the [illegible], or that from [illegible] is it with his insufficient to bring his case within the law, in such cases provided but as much with the generosity of Congress to grant something to smooth the [illegible] down the evening of life of a wounded decrepit old soldier.
And your petitioner as a duly bound [illegible] ever pray
Sept 16 1827
W Vikay
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Dated Savannah [Toby] W 1858
Rec'd Washington 20, 1858
To S Cole
For Commissioner of Pensions
Susannah Vickory has been paid to fourth Sept Eighteen fifty-six
J.S. Morrell
Pension Agent
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[Brief] In the matter of Susannah Vickory, widow of William, of Ga for increase of Pension.
on appeal
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Susannah Vickory
Widow of William, of Ga.
Application for increase of pension under act of July 4, 1836.

In 1827, William Vickory petitioned Congress for a Revolutionary pension; and alleged that early in the [missing word may be war] he served a twelve months tour under Capt. Buir, in a regiment of riflemen under command of Col. Williamson, and at the time of the siege of Ninety-Six (in 1781) a ten months tour under Col. Samuel Hammond, of the Cavalry; and that the remainder of his service was in the militia.  In 1828 he made an ineffectual effort to obtain a pension from the Pension office on account of the 12 months service in the [illegible] under Capt Buir, claiming under the [illegible] of March 18th, 1818.  In all this was Continental Service.  On the 20th of May 1830 an act of Congress was [passed] directing that he, among others, should be placed on the pension roll at the rate of $8 per month, commencing on the first day of January 1828.  See US 8 Statutes at Large, Vol 6 page 417.  His pension was paid until the death of Vickory, the 2nd of November 1835.  In 1856 the present claimant applied
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for a pension as the widow of William vickory under the act of July 4, 1836.  His claim was disallowed on two grounds; first that the alleged services of Wlliam Vickory was not satisfactorily proved, and second, that the date of the intermarriage of William and Susannah Vickory was not clearly proved.
The claimaint's agent took an appeal to the department, and it was decided that the proof showed that the parties were married in 1775 and that the claimant should be placed on the pension roll at the rate of $30 per annum from the date of her husband's death to the date of the joint Resolution of July 1st, 1848, and from that date at the rate of pension her husband enjoyed in his life time.
Afterwards, the claimants attorney files in the pension office a certificate of the Comptroller of So. Carolina, showing that William Vickory did perform the tour of 10 months service as a private of Cavalry, under Col. Samuel Hammond, [illegible] in his petitions to [illegible] in 1827: and the pension office accordingly increased the pension of the claimant for the interval of times between her husband's death and July 1, 1848 from $30 per annum, the pension for nine
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months service as a private of Infantry to $44 66/100 per annum, the pension for the ten months service as a private of Cavalry.
The claimants attorney now appeals from this action and decision of the pension office, and claims that [illegible] first, and afterwards the Secretary of the Interior (on the former appeal) have admitted the alleged services of Vickory in the rifle regiment in the Continental Line, that Vickory was originally pensioned as under the act of 1818, which required nine months service in the Continental Line, that Vickory alleges and brought one [illegible] to prove service of one year in the Continental Rifles; that the service under Saul Hammond was States Line and not Continental, and that upon the latter service being proved the widow was entitled to an allowance, from the date of her husband's death to July 1st, 1848, for 12 months services as private of Infantry adn ten months as private of Cavalry, making $81.66 per annum.
Congress did not order Vickory to be enrolled as a pensioner under the act of 1818, but only pensioned him at the same rate.  This was, in effect a decision that they regarded his services as equal in
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point of merit and duration with that required under the act of 1818; not that the service clearly brought him within the provisions of that act; for in this case it is reasonable to suppose they would have ordered him to be pensioned under the act, as was done in
numerous other cases. This view appears to have been the one taken by the Secretary in deciding on the former appeal. Again, the assumption that the 12 months service in the Rifles was Continental is not sustained by any proof whatever. Congress did not recognise any continental rifle corps in So. Carolina, and
the names of Capt. Bair and Col. Williamson are neither of them found in any list of the Continental officers of So. Carolina.
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Washington D.C.
July 29, 1856
His Hon.
The Com Pensions
Sir,
In the case now pending in your office for Rev. Pension of Susanah Vickory wid of Wm Vickory who was a Rev Pensioner Act 1835 State of Georgia.  Therewith enclose additional proof of the date of her marriage, that it was in 1775 as the Family Record now on file in the case shows
Have the goodness to transmit the certificate and oblige.
[Jam Sr]
Most [illegible]
L. B. True
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Washington D.C.
July 28, 1856
 Hon. Judge Minot
 Com Pensions
Sir,
Herewith I enclose additional evidence in the claim of Susannah Vickory.  Widow of William Vickory Rev. Pensions deceased of Ga Act 1836 Act 1838.  This with deposition on file and just received are in support of the date of Marriage given upon the original Family Record filed in the case to have been in the year 1775.
Jam Sr
Most [illegible]
L. B. True
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Washington D.C.
July 15, 1856
His Hon 
The Com Pensions
Sir,
Therewith I enclose additional evidence in proof of the marriage and date of same of Susannah and William Vickory of State of Georgia.  The latter claim is the Rev. Pension of the former deceased case suspended.  Additional evidence will soon be returned to be filed in the case this day first to Clerk of Court of Georgia, by me for his certificate under seal to the quality of acting magistrate
James Sr
L. B. True
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Washington DC
June 10th 1856
Hon Judge Minot
Com Pensions
Sir,
Enclosed please receive the application in due form duly executed in open court of Susanna Vickory Wid of Willaim Vickory late a Rev Pensioner of the Georgia Agency together with the deposition of Witnesses in proof of her identity of the death of said William Vickory and of their marriage the [illegible] out by [illegible] officials and all duly executed.
A private letter stating the circumstance of there being no court record of the marriage, also an old family Bible bearing unquestionable marks of its authenticity and genuineness in proof of the date of claims and marriage.  Proof to now or herewith filed.
These things are judged of as being
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evidence and proof conclusive to the mind of your Hon. and to the satisfaction of your aids to the completion of her claim to her husband's pension.

I have the Hon. to be sir,
Most [cobedntly] yours,
L. B. True
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Washington D.C.
April [17/57]

Bounty [band] should issue evidently to the living widow of William Vickory Rev Pensioner [illegible] the state of Georgia Act 1832.
The claim was suspended for [land] by the Examiner as he informed me then because he thought it best to allow those only that were pensioned and her claim for a pension was yet suspended.  Now this is just the case with many others who have received land for Rev. Services under the Act of 1836 whose claims for pensions
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are suspended and to whom or is whose case never will be allowed or can be under any existing law so allowed are not all claims for Virginia Militia Service either - yet some cases do exist where land warranty have recently issued to widows of a deed [illegible] soldier of the Virginia Militia of which service there is record evidence but most evidence of any kind.
Have the goodness not to delay issuing the warranty in this case for life at her great age is most uncertain.
Geo C.Whitner
Com Pensions
L. B. True
Agent on the case
James Ser
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Brief in the case of Susannah Vickory widow of William.  Fayette County and State of Georgia Act act July 4 1836.

Claim ("original")
proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
William Vickory was placed on the Georgia pension roll at $8 per month, under special act of May 20, 1830, and paid at that rate to Sept 4 1834.
The testimony in the case is that he died Nov 2nd, 1835.  Marriage in 1775 shown by family record.  
(If for increase) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
Admitted by direction of Secretary of the Interior on appeal.
Name and residence of Agent
L. B. True
Present
S. G. Dodge
Examining Clerk.
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Susannah Vickory
Act 1836
Brief
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Milledgeville April 5th, 1832
Hon Danl Newman
Sir. By the pension act [paper] in May 1830, William Vickory of Georgia (then of Fayette Cty) was placed on the list for life at 8 dollars per month.  It was through my instrumentality Mr.  Vickory's case was provided you.  I now learn for the first time, that Mr. Vickory [illegible] in his pension certificate which I presume was forwarded to him, and not being applyed[applied] for at the post was returned as a dead letter to the general Post office.  I have to request the favor of you, to turn to the act referred to and
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then apply for & forward his Certificate & propper[proper] instruction to him. All of which you will direct to him at Campbell Ch. House. Geo confided to the law of Martin D Rodgers Esq. Your attention to this business will oblige me. As well as a meritorious & made old man.
Wilson Lumpkin
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Wm Vickey[Vickory]
61302
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Washington 26th Feby 1856.
Sir. I am in the receipt of a letter from the
widow of William Vickory of (who was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension up to the time of his death) desiring to know, under what Captain he served and such facts as will enable her to make out a declaration for a bounty land warrant. She states in her letter, that the records in the Pension office will show all the [necessary] facts. Wm Vickory formerly lived in Fayette County Georgia and died there. Allow me to ask in her behalf that the decreed information may be furnished her
Very respectfully 
Your Obt Sevt
Hiram Warner
To the Com Pensioner Washington
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William Vickory
Petition & Schedule in due form, living in Conn set forth and sworn to be [illegible] under one enlistment services also proven[illegible] to some extent by one witness. Sanctioned by a Court of Record in due form 
Pens. granted $8 per annum
Dec. 15 1829
Recd to Conn. Mil. Pension
No [illegible] certified
L. C.
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5.3.77
Georgia
Susannah Vickery widow of William who died on the 2 Novr 1835 of in the State of who was a private in the commanded by Captain of the
by commanded by in the Revolution line for 9 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Savannah at the rate of 30 Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 2d day of of November 1835, and end 30th June 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of
August 1857 and Arrears to the 4th of 
Semiannual allowance ending Present
L. B. True
 
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the

Recorded by G. T. Getty, Clerk
Book 36 Vol 1
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Washington 6th Jan. 1828.
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Sir. Your communication of yesterday,
in relation to the documents, which I had sent to the Pension office has been rec'd.

You state that the documents in support of the claim of William Vickory have been
examined, and the claim cannot be allowed
and further, that the papers will remain in your
files, according to the regulations of the department.

I have to request the favor of you to return Mr. Vickory's papers to me. I had given them but a very cursory glance, previous to
sending them to you and without further
examination of them I am entirely unable to
give him the information, which is due from
me, to him as one of my constituents.

While I do not question in the slightest
degree, your decision in relation to his claim.
Am I not justifyed [justified] in doubting the propriety of withholding his papers in your Department.

Respectfully your Obt Sert, Wilson Lumpkin
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Will Mr. Brent be so good as to say whether the name William Vickroy[Vickory] in the 3d section of the act of May 20, 1830, chap. 97, Davis edition of the laws, page 69, 4th line from the bottom) is not erroneously printed: and if no will Mr. B be so good as to say how the name is written on the original roll deposited in the Dept. of State? The papers upon which that part of the act was predicated, shew that the man's name is Vickory, not Vickroy.
J.L. Edwards
Apl 16 1832

The name on the Roll is William Vickroy as printed in the pamphlet Session Act.
Department of State 
April 1732
Daniel Brent, C.C.
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House Reps. 29th May 1830
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
Sir. I have to acknowledge the [illegible] of your favor of yesterdays date.

But I confess, I am not able to to comprehend
your requisition.

How is Mr. Vickory to show that he is the man intended by the Law? Unless the papers on which Congress has placed him on the pension rolls, be deemed sufficient. Will you be so kind as to inform me more definitely what you do require?

I leave here on Monday morning, an answer before I leave is very desirable.
Your Obt Sert
Wilson Lumpkin
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Pension Office
April 25 1857.

Sir.
Upon proof being filed that Susanna Vickory, an applicant for bounty, under the act of 3d March, 1855, is the widow of the [illegible]
William Vickory, who was a pensioner of the United States, upon the Georgia roll, at the rate of $8 per month under a Special act of Congress of May, 20th 1830, her claim will be favorably considered.

Yours Respectfully
Geo C Whiting
Commissioner

L. B. True, Esqr
Present.
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L. B. True
Washington City
Dec 25 1857

Respecting the case of William Vickory for pension

Susannah Vickory
William 1836

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions.
Dept Int Jan 12 57

Moses Kelly
Rec'd Jan. 57
Mr. Rhett
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Washington City DC
Dec 25th 1857

His Hon.
Jacob Thompson
Secty. Interior

Dear Sirs
William Vickory Declared in 3 separate declarations made in 1827-1828 and in 1829 under Act of 1818 & 1820 that he served 12 months a 12 months tour under Capt. Buir in the 5th Regt of Rifles in the Continental line, on Continental Establishment of S.le, and furnished the Depositions of those in service
with him to the same facts.

Being refused a pension at the Pension Bureau he applied to Congress, and was allowed under said acts $96 per annum, as private
of Infantry
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The widow was allowed his Pension under Act of 1848, & but $30.00 under act of 1836
for 9 months of his said service as private of Infantry Continental line,

Now she has proven 10 months service as State line Calvary.

Tho she proves 10 months State line cavalry service for which neither he nor his Widow were ever pensioned, still the Pension Office in this case deducts this Infantry Continental 9 months service of $30 from his 10 months State line Cavalry service!!

But could he serve in the 5th Regt of Rifles Infantry Continental service on foot and at the same time in the State line cavalry service on horse if so the deduction may be correct but certainly cannot be otherwise, as your Hon-
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will readily discover and I trust will cause this error so obvious, to be corrected, and a new certificate issued in lieu of the last in this case
which is hereby requested most respectfully. 

I would refer your Hon. to the papers on file in Pension Office in this case.

The late decision of the Attorney Genl forcibly imposes on me this Appeal to your Hon. life to such very aged people is so exceedingly precarious.

I am Sir most obediently Yours
L. B. True, Agent in this case
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No. 5 [sideways no 8]
State of Georgia Fayette County  
I Mariel L Yates
Clerk of the Interior Court hslden at Fayetteville in and for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Nelly Carroll is at least 76 years old & that Polly &
Penelope were sisters of foresaid [unreadable due to fold in paper]
satisfy to that there were some two years difference in the ages of each & that they are & hereof the children of Susana Vickory & William Vickory a deceased Revolutionary Pensioner under act of May 1820 subsequent act at $96 per annum and she his said widow Susana Vickory is now making application for her said deceased husbands Revolutionary Pensions. And I further certify that William L. Thurmond whose genuine signature appear to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Inferior Court duly Authorized to administer oaths in and for said County duly appointed
& Commissioned as such that entire faith & confidence should be placed in all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and offer my seal of office  of
Fayetteville this 23rd day
August 1836. Mariel L Yates Clerk
of the Inferior Court of said County & State
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I William T. Thumond Judge of the
Superior Court of the County of Fayette
and State of Georgia do hereby certify
that upon the examination will testimony of by said [Mary Silvey and dlfany from Silvey].
aged and credible witnesses and upon
the deposition of Nelly Carroll I am
satisfied that said Nelly Carroll is at
least 76 years of age and that Polly
and Penelope were sisters
of hers.
each older than herself and that
there were some two years differences
in the age of each and that they all
are and were of the children of
Susanna Vickory and of William Vickory a
deceased Revolutionary Pensioner under act
of May 1820 and subsequent act of
$96 per annum and that she his said
widow Susanna Vickory is now making
application for her said deceased husband's
Revolutionary Pension.
This August 11th 1856 Wm T. Thumond J.L.C.
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Pension office
Jan 22. 1858
To
app
Reports on the case of Susannah Vicory.
Rec'd 25 Jan: '58
Wm. Rhett
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Pension Office,
Jan'y 22d, 1858.
Sir:
I have the honor to return, enclosed herewith,
the letter of appeal of Mr True, from the decision of this Office in the case of Susannah Vickory, widow of William, of Georgia, under the act of July 4, 1836, together with the papers filed in the case; and to make the following report:
This claim was originally disallowed by this office. An appeal was taken to the Secretary of the Interior; and on the 10th of August last your decision was made, directing that the claimant should be pensioned at the rate allowable for nine months service of her late husband, up to the date of the joint resolution of July 1st, 1848, from which time her pension should be at the rate of $96 per annum, the same rate her husband, William Vickory, received in his life time, by virtue of the special act of Congress placing him on the pension roll. Accordingly, certificates were 
issued to Mrs Vickory, at the rate of $80 per annum from the date of her husbands death to the first of July 1848, and at the rate of $96 per annum after that date.
Subsequently, Mr True filed in this office
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the certificate of the Comptroller Genl. of So. Carolina dated the 2d of September last, showing that William Vickory served ten [underlined] months [underlined] as a private of Cavalry.
Evidence of this description had been ineffectually demanded of the claimant previous to the former appeal. On this evidence Mrs Vickory's pension, from the date of her husbands death to the first of July, 1848, was increased from $30 to $41 66/100
per annum.
No other evidence of Vickory's revolutionary
Service has been filed since the former appeal was taken and your decision given thereon. I regard your decision as simply affirming that, as William Vickory was placed on the pension roll under the act of 1818, he was to be
presumed, now, in accordance with the spirit of the point Revolution of July 1st, 1848, to have served nine months; and that you did not attempt to discriminate and say that this nine months service was either in the rifle of the
Cavalry regiment, both of which services were claimed by Vickory. On the contrary, if you had found the evidence of the alleged service of one year in the rifle battalion, or of ten months in the cavalry to be, sufficient, you would not have restricted the allowance to the nine months service necessary to entitle Vickory to a pension under the act of 1818.
The point now presented by Mr True is,
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that this ten months cavalry service was State Line service, and that the rifle battalion was continental, and that, as the Department [office lined out] has admitted nine months continental service, the ten months service admitted by this office should be additional to the nine months, and, not only so, but that if the Department admits that Vickory served nine months in the rifle regiment, the proof is equally strong that he so served twelve months.
I suppose, but am not certain, that Hammonds
Cavalry regiment was not continental; but I have no proof that the rifle battalion was [underlined] continental.
The present appeal appears to be an expression of dissent from your decision, rather than an appeal from the subsequent action of this office; and I have only to refer you to my report on the former appeal, for a general statement of the case and of my views thereon.
I am, Very respectfully,
Your ob't Sev't,
No. C. Whiting
Commissioner.
Hon:
Jacob Thompson,
Secretary of the Interior.
Dodge
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Washington D.C
Sept 4h 1856

Hon Judge Minot
Com Pensions 
Sir -
In the case of Susannah Vickory claiming Rev Pension from George I am most happy to have now in all respects (to have) answered
your desires--
Have the goodness to transmit the certificate any case and much oblige
[illegible] Sir
most obediently
Yours
L.B. True
Agent in this case
N. B. Enclosed please
receive the certificate
of the Judge of Fayette Co. Court
in this case as required by yours of July 31 1856
S.B. T
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Certifi [ink blot] of the Comptroller G. of S.C. 
Sept 2d. 1857
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Comptroller General's Office
Columbia, SC. Septr 2nd 1857
I hereby certify that the "Lglt. Herling" as for "Book M. page 80" paid William Vicory, was a [Special] payment, which is presumed by this Office to have been for 10 Months Services in a "Regiment" of Calvary" commanded by Lt. Col. Saml. - Hammond."
Given under my hand
W.R Huntt
Dep. Comp Genl

No Seal of Office