Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,593, William Hixt, S.C.
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A
SERVICE
CONTEN
Axt.
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Hext
Graham
William
Ann
Former widow
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NUMBER
W. 7.593
B.L. Wt. 2179-300
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Reported
2163 Virginia Richmond
Ann Graham
widow of William Hext
S.C.
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a Captain Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
48.00 Dollars no Cents per annum, to commence onthe 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Sept 1848 and sent to R. Auld Georgetown, DC
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under
February 2, 1848, Page 152 Col.
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Recieved 21 June 1837 of the Bounty land
Office of the United States, at Washington
Land Warrant No 2179 for three Hundred
Acres of Land assigned to me as Son and sole
devisee of William Hixt decesed who was a
Captain in the South Carolina line in the Revolutionary War.

                                     James B. Hext
I certify that the name of James
H. Hixt is the son & devisee of  Wm Hixt.
      Robert Y. Hayne
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1786.
William Hext & Ann Hartley were married
by licence June 29. I do hereby certify that the
above is a correct copy from the Record Book of St. Michaels Church.

Given under my hand this eighteenth
day of August in the forty seven thousand eight hundred

Theo. Young
Assit. Minister of St. Michael Church
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Washington

September 4, 1847
I, James D. Graham of the Army
of the United States, certify
that Mrs Ann Graham, whose declaration for
pension has been shown to me this day in the Pension office at Washington, is the widow of my father the late Doctor William Graham of Prince William County Virginia and that relation 
am acquainted with the following facts well known to all our family, namely she was first married to William Hext of South Carolina
in or about the year of 1786.
that the said William Hext was an 
officer of the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
she subsequently, (after the death
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f the said William Hext, married Peyton
Gwynn of Virginia, and after his
death
●
then married my father Doctor William Graham
of Prince William County Virginia, and that she is
at this time his widow.

James D. Graham
Major U.S. Topograph
Engineer
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( left page ) Declaration of Mrs. Ann Graham  applicant for Pension in his will he will his wife Ann - Robt. Ould will Admd in Probate 1790 - Georgetown D.C.  Aug 21 '47 ( right page ) Aug 23/47 No.13447 Set 43 9351 Ann Graham formerly wid of Wm. Hixt D.C. act 7 July 1838 admd 2 yrs/ 480  Capt also acts 43 & 44  $ 480 Send warrant to  James H Hixt sent .. ( illegible ) pension  6 Ma  1837 and died . R Y Hayne - Capt Wm Hixt Payroll Col. Pinckney  .. ( illegible ) N W Duffey (?) appointed Mar 1779  Robert Old Georgetown D.C.
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[ District of Columbia Washington County ] to wit On this twenty first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven , personally appeared before the  .. ( blurred ) Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States for the aforesaid District, Mrs. Ann Graham , a resident of the City of Richmond , in the State of Virginia , aged seventy seven 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 act of Congress  , passed July 7, 1838 , entitled " An Act granting  half pay and pensions to certain widows - " ; That she is the widow of William Hixt who was a Captain in the Revolutionary Army , and who died in May seventeen hundred and ninety  at Buckhall, Stono Parish , in the State of South Carolina - that the said William Hixt , her husband  served under General  Pinckney , and was wounded at Stono Ferry in  Stono Parish in said State of South Carolina - that the said William  Hixt, her husband,  was taken prisoner at the siege of Charleston in said State of South Carolina , and was kept and detained as a prisoner , by the British ,  at Hadrell's Point , until the peace of 1783 - that the said  William Hixt was born in South Carolina , and that he lived and died in said State - that her son , and the son of the said William Hixt , to wit . James Hartley Hixt , now of the State of Texas , in 1835 or 1837 , through the  Hon. Robert Y Hayne of  South Carolina , applied to the Pension Office of the United States  for , and obtained the bounty lands , to which he was entitled by virtue of the Revolutionary services of his father, the said  William Hixt - that this deponent subsequently  to May 1790 , the period of her said husband's death , removed from South Carolina to Virginia, in Amelia County , and that in said County her dwelling house was destroyed by fire, and the family
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records and her husband's papers burnt up , so that she is unable to produce documentary evidence as to the service of her said deceased husband . And this deponent further declares and makes oath as aforesaid, that she was married  to the said William Hixt  in the month of June , in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six, and that her said husband the aforesaid William Hixt died in May 1790 : that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service , but that the marriage took place previous to  the first of January , seventeen hundred and  ninety four , viz : at the time above stated - that the family record containing the time  and date of her said marriage was destroyed at the time of the aforesaid fire, and that her husband's commission she believes to have been  burnt up at the same time. And this deponent further declares  and makes oath as aforesaid that although married a second and a third time, yet that she has been a widow for more than fifteen years last past, and that she now is a widow, and she further declares that she believes that none of her contemporary acquaintances at the time of her said marriage are now living.  Ann Graham ( signed ) Sworn to and subscribed , on the day and year above written, before  ( the words "at the time of her said marriage " in  the last line of second page, being first underlined ) James S Morsell ( signed )
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[ Territory of Florida Leon County ]  I ,James H Hixt , of the County of Gadsden & Territory aforesaid , one of the heirs at law of my Father , the late William Hixt , or Hiset, do upon oath testify & declare to the best of my knowledge  & belief that the said William Hixt did  enter the service of the United States at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, as an officer , in the Couth  Carolina Continental line ; and that he continued to sere as a Captain  to the end of the war : and I further declare that I  never received a warrant for the bounty land  promised to him on the part of the United States , nor do I believe that he was received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever. James H Hixt ( signed )  Sworn to before me this 29th day of March 1837.  John Rea ( signed ) J.P.     [ United States of America Territory of Florida ] To all whom it may concern I Richard K Call  Governor of the Territory aforesaid , do hereby certify  that John Rea whose signature appears countersigned  to the foregoing affidavit  was at the date thereof and still is a Justice of the Peace in the County of Leon and Territory aforesaid ( as appears from the  Record on file in the executive office ) and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Territory to be affixed . Done at the Capital in the City of Tallahassee  this 28th day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven , and of American Independence the sixty first.  R K Call ( signed / sealed ) Governor of Florida
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STATE OF SUTH CAROLINA. BY HIS EXCELLENCY  Pierce M. Butler GOVERNOR  AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN AND OVER THE STATE AFORESAID. To all  to Whom these Presents Shall Come. P M Butler . Know ye that Thomas Lehre Esq. whose signature appears to the Instrument of Writing  hereunto annexed is & was at the time of signing the same Ordinary for the District of Charleston , and  sole Judge of the Court of Probates of last Wills & Testaments  within the said District , that to him is  entrusted the  Custody of all Original Will and is the proper Office to give Certified copies thereof - THEREFORE, all due Faith , Credit, and Authority is and ought to be had and given to his proceedings and certificates as such.  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I  have hereunto set my Hand , and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State , in the City of Charleston on the twenty ninth day of May  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and in the sixty first year of Independence of the United States of America. BY THE GOVERNOR . B.H. Saxon ( signed / sealed ) SECRETARY OF STATE
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Copy Will William Hixt H 732
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South Carolina . I William Hixt in  St Paul's Parish  planter do make publish and declare , this to me my last  Will and Testament , hereby revoking all others. In premise  I will  devise and bequeath unto my Wife , Ann Hixt all the property I shall be entitled to at the decease of her Grand Mother Mrs. Margaret Williams, allowing her a sufficient  maintenance and support from the income of my present  Estate until she is invested with the aforesaid  property , and then this maintenance to cease. And I  devise and bequeath  all my landed Estate unto my son James Hartley Hixt and to his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby will devise and bequeath all my personal estate  to be equally divided  share and share alike  between my Daughter  Elizabeth Hixt and my son James Hartley Hixt , to them , their heirs and assigns forever. Also I do hereby nominate and appoint my Uncle Thomas Osborn , William Somarsall, John Wilson, and James Hartley  Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I do herby set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord  one thousand seven hundred and ninety . William Hixt ( signed / sealed )  We the subscriber at the request of the said William Hixt and in his presence and in the presence of each other have signed our names  as to witness to this his last Will and Testament . Joseph N Wilson ( signed ) Richard Waring ( signed ) Ann Maillard ( signed ) . Proved before Charles Lening  O.C.T.D. December 17th 1790 . December 28th  1790 qualified Thomas Osborn  Executor  by ( by virtue of a ordinus ) before Thomas Bee Esquire.  { Ordinary Office Charleston District May 22nd  1837 } I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original duly  proven and of record in this office. Thomas Lehre ( signed ) O.C.T.D.
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Deposition of Mrs. E. Gwynn accompanying Mrs. Ann Graham's application for pension  Robt. Ould Georgetown D.C.
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[ District of Columbia Washington County ] To wit, On this twenty first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven, personally appeared before the subscriber an  Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States for the aforesaid District , Mrs. Elizabeth  Gwynn, now a resident to the District aforesaid, aged fifty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath depose That she hath known  Mrs. Ann Graham , the declarant for a pension , since the earliest period of her recollection - that she lived in the same house with the said Mrs. Ann Graham  for many years - that she  lived thirteen or fourteen years with Mr. William B. Giles formerly  United States Senator from Virginia, who married  the daughter of the said Mrs. Ann Graham by the second husband - that the said  Mrs. Ann Graham also resided at that time with the said William B. Giles - that during  that time, the wife of the said William B. Giles paid a visit to her half brother Mr. James Hartley Hixt and to her half sister Mrs. Elizabeth  Primrose, whose maiden name was Hixt, and both of who were  the children of the said  Mrs. Ann Graham by her first husband, William Hixt, that the said  Mrs. Giles was in the constant and invariable  habit of calling  the said James Hartley Hixt and the said Elizabeth Primrose , brother and sister - that she  ( this deponent ) has frequently seen letters from the said Mrs. Elizabeth Primrose to the said Mrs. Giles, styling her  as sister - that she, ( this deponent )  has also seen  letters from the said James Hartley Hixt  and the said Elizabeth  Primrose to the said Mrs. Ann Graham , in which the said Mrs. Ann Graham was addressed as their mother - that she ( this deponent ) has during her whole life been intimate in the family of the said Mrs. Ann Graham , and has heard frequently and often times
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from many different sources , the fact of the marriage of the said Mrs. Ann Graham  at a very young age, to Mr. William Hixt of the revolutionary army mentioned - that she ( this deponent )  has never from any quarter ever heard the fact of said marriage doubted or questioned - that a son of said Mr. James Hartley Hixt , who was the son of said William Hixt by said Mrs. Ann Graham , resided with his grand mother , the said Mrs. Ann Graham , in the said County of Amelia, and constantly addressed the said Mrs. Ann Graham  as grandmother- that the dwelling house of the said Mrs. Ann Graham in said County  of Amelia was destroyed by fire, and the family records burnt up - that she ( this deponent )  knows the fact of the marriage of the said Mrs. Ann Graham  to the said William Hixt  as well as she knows  any event, which she has not personally witnessed, and that she has no more doubt of the fact of said marriage that she has of the existence of the said Mrs. Ann Graham. Elizabeth Gwynn ( signed ) Sworn to and subscribed , on the day and year above written before James S. Morsell ( signed )   I hereby certify that I have known the above deponent Mrs. Elizabeth Gwynn  for a length oftime, and I do further certify  that I believe her to be a person of veracity and most worthy of credit. Robt. Ould ( signed ) Georgetown D.C. The undersigned Chief Clerk of the Pension Office knew the deponent while she was an inmate of old Giles's family ( who married
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the daughter of the claimant by her second
 marriage and certify that she is a lady of great respectability. I also know the claimant and 
her children by the second marriage by _____Gwynn  & of the 3rd  by  Doc Graham who was the father of James. William & Campbell Graham of the US Army. She was is a lady of great merit & respectability.
Geo. W. Crump ( signed ) 

Aug. 4 1847
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10342
---
District of Columbia
Ann Graham
Widow of William Hixt
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died  in May 1790
of Washington in the District of Columbia
who was a Captain  ____ of the Regiment in the 
commanded by Genl Pinckney in the Revolution line for 2 years.  


Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Columbia
 the rate of 480 Dollars ---Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4thday of Sept. 1847 and sent to Georgetown, DC

Total amount                    $2400.00

Recorded by Theo. Lumpkin, Clerk
the Act July 7, 1838.}

Book D Vol. 1 Page 475
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William Hixt No. 2179
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Mr. William Gordon Present
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Charleston 12th June 1837  Sir, I have this day received Land Warrant  No 2179 for  Three Hundred acres of land issued in the name of James H. Hixt  son and sole demisee (?) of Capt. Wm Hixt of the army of the Revolution  for which  I will obtain  and forward  Mr.. Hixt's receipt as soon as it can be procured from Florida where he resides . With my thanks to you  and the  Secretary of War, for your prompt attention to this business, I am very respectfully your obt. servt Robt. Y. Hayne ( signed )   Wm . Suden Esq.
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7593

Ann Graham
Wm
Widow of
William Hixt
Capt. Rev. War

Act: Feby, 28
Index: -- Vol. A. Page 287
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82545
District of Columbia

Ann Graham 
widow of William Hixt
who was a Captain
in the Revolution
Husband died in May 1790

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
480 Dollars  ___Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Sept, 1847 and sent to 
Robert Old, Georgetown, DC


[ Acts of March 3, 1843, and Jun
17, 1844. ]
Recorded in Book A Vol, 2 Page 128
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Capt Wm Hixt
H. 732.
examination of
witnesses
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State of South Carolina
City of Charleston
Mrs. Catharine Osborne and Mrs.  Martha Ann Matthews being sworn do depose and say
the late Capt. William Hext otherwise
called Capt. William Hixt served during the Revolutionary War first as a Lieutenant and afterwards a Captain under Major Gen. Thomas Pinckney in the South Carolina Regt. on the continental establishment, that he continued
in service to the end of the war and was wounded at the battle of Stono that the said William Hext died on or about the year 1789.
leaving a widow Anne Hext who afterwards married with T.P. Gwynn and at his death married   Dr. Graham and is now a widow in Virginia and he also left one son James Hartley Hixt and one daughter Elizabeth who married with Robert Primrose who is now dead and since  Elizabeth Hext has also died  leaving two children viz. Margaret who is married to  Edward Morris and Elizabeth Hixt Primrose has also died aged about 16 years.

                     Catharine Osborn
                      ( her mark)
                       Martha Ann Mathew ( signed ) 

Sworn to before me at Charleston this 13th day of May AD 1837.

Jacob Axton ( signed ) Recorder of the City of Charleston  & Judge of City  Court
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[ The State of South Carolina City of Charleston ]  I. Frances S. Ward  Clerk of the  city Court of Charleston do hereby certify that the within affidavit of Mrs. Catharine Osborne and Mrs. Martha Ann Mathews taken before  the  Judge of said Court is on record in my office and that he said affidavit is a true transcript of said Record . Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 13th day of May  one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. F. S .Ward ( signed / sealed ) Clk  [ State of South Carolina City of Charleston ] I Robert Y. Hayne Mayor of the City of Charleston in the State aforesaid   , do hereby certify that F.S. Ward whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate is Clerk of the City Court of Charleston , and that all due faith and credit is due and ought to be given to him as such. Given under my hand and the Seal of the City this 29th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven  & in the sixty first year of American Independence.  Robt. Y. Hayne ( signed / sealed )  By the Mayor                                            William Roach Clerk of Council
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Admitted
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[ State of Virginia City of Richmond County of Henrico ] To wit : Ann Graham , a resident of the City of Richmond  in the County of Henrico and State of Virginia aged __ years , being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration , in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress  passed on the 2nd day of February, 1848, granting pensions  to widows of persons who served during the  Revolutionary War ; namely  That she is the widow of William Hixt , who was a Captain in the Army , and served and was wounded in the Revolution, but she does not recollect the regiment or corps in which he served, that he died in the year 1790 , after which  she was married to William Graham, who died more than twenty odd years ago , the exact year she does not recollect, that she has not been married since, and is still a widow, and that the  the amount of the pension  that she has  heretofore received under the Act of Congress of the 17th of June 1844, is Four hundred and eighty dollars per annum.  Ann Graham ( signed ) I, James D. Halyburton , Judge of the District Court  of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia , do hereby certify , that Ann Graham , whose name is signed to the above declaration , and who is personally known to me , did personally appear  before me in the City and County aforesaid , in the Eastern District of the State of Virginia, and being first duly sworn  by me , according to law, she did on oath make before me the foregoing declaration and signed the same in my presence. Witness my hand and seal this 16th day of September 1848. James D. Halyburton ( signed / sealed )
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Charleston August 20th 1847. My Dear Grandmother , I received your letter  on the  .. ( blurred )  were well Mr. M is much better he has been in bad health  for one year past and was obliged to resign his situation in the Bank inconsequence of it - the children have all had the Influenza and fever but I am  happy to say  are better  today it is very prevalent in the City  at presents we have four little girls - Mary Gadsden, a Elizabeth Primrose,  & Julia Motte & Margaret Ann, but the latter goes by the name of Meta __ . Mr. Morris desires to be affectionately remembered to you  he procured the papers for you with  pleasure which I will enclose in this letter - I received a letter a short time since from Uncle Heartly  in which he complains of the bad conduct of his children and says he has been obliged to leave his wife on account of her conduct and said he supposed I had heard all about it . I had never heard anything  of it and called on the Brailsfords  ( although I do not visit them ) . Mrs. Brailsfords told me Uncle Heartly  was at times partially deranged and that  .. ( blurred ) had stabbed a man and injured him very much in a fit of jealousy that his sons were obliged to attend to the planting . Uncle Heartly mentioned he was keeping School  he said he wished to come to Charleston and wanted some situation here - do when you  write tell me what is the matter  Miss Brailsford said that her sister has been very badly treated and that you had written to Uncle Heartly 's wife and said you blamed him very much - With regard to 50  its mentioned in your letter I don't know  what you mean both Mr. M and myself were at a loss to understand  it . I concluded you  had made some mistake - Another part ,where you said you did not write to beg  either Mr. Morris  or my
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myself all , I can say you never begged us you only did what I think you ought to have done we were  grieved it was out  of our power to do as we wished for at that time Mr. M. had several bills that he had promised to pay  and his health was so bad he could not attend to the duties of his situation when Uncle Payton  mentioned  that your circumstances were reduced we regretted very much about it  and Mr. M.  tried to see what he could do  even before your letter came but he found it was impossible to do as he could wish  but I hope  for better day I never despond  though our circumstances are very bad now . I tell  Mr. M. I am sure it will be better. Have you heard  from Lawrence and  Uncle Peyton do write about them  for I feel very anxious about them . Do when you write to  Aunt Heartly  give my best love to her  and tell her I often think of her with affection and intended to write soon but something has always  prevented me indeed I have so much to do and part of the winter we were obliged to go to  Aiken for Mr. M.'s health  . I will tell her all about  it when I write and ask  her to write me a long letter when you receive this and ask her to tell me all the news. Are you engaged in a law suit that you require the enclosed papers ? Mr. M.  join me in love to Aunt Heartly and yourself and Believe me to be  Your affectionate Granddaughter M Morris ( signed )
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H. 732 5 June 1837 Bounty Land Office 3rd Auditor  Answered by 3rd Auditor as  regards Pay nd commutation -  The Secretary of War   which the ansr  to this .. ( missing ) to he handed to him  S.C.  ( post mark )[ CHARLESTON S.C. MAY 29 ] illegible signature  - upside down
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FREE  R. Poinsett Secretary of War Washington D.C. ( margin notes Bounty Land .. illegible )
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is not some other claim of the heirs  of
Capt Hext such for instance or_________.
I have entertained this matter, exaft to save a worthy family, in complicated circumstances.
There is no doubt whatever of this claim. That Capt. Hext did serve in the same Reg. with ____. ____ Intention is certain. His name indeed affairs among the officers is in Revolutionary History and is on the Roll in Washinton.
Must  he mean ___?His land is also certain  and that
 the persons named in the enclosed papers are  his
heirs and representatives of unquestionable and known to me. Should the argument be in claiming
 information of the fact the proper power of
.Attorney will be forwarded.
I am a respectful servant
Son of Sam
Rob G. Hayne

Hon JL Pinsett
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is not some other claim of the heirs  of
Capt Hext such for instance or_________.
I have entertained this matter, exaft to save a worthy family, in complicated circumstances.
There is no doubt whatever of this claim. That Capt. Hext did serve in the same Reg. with ____. ____ Intention is certain. His name indeed affairs among the officers is in Revolutionary History and is on the Roll in Washinton.
Must  he mean ___?His land is also certain  and that
 the persons named in the enclosed papers are  his
heirs and representatives of unquestionable and known to me. Should the argument be in claiming
 information of the fact the proper power of
.Attorney will be forwarded.
I am a respectful servant
Son of Sam
Rob G. Hayne

Hon JL Pinsett