Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5789, for Anthony Junior, Virginia
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SERVICE: Va
Junior, Anthony
NUMBER: R. 5789
CONTENTS
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Anthony Junior,
Ga
Act 7 June 1832.
Let. to J. W. Burney
April 15 1839 ~
5789
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5789.
P.O.
Anthony Junior
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: ___, 18
Discharged: ____, 18
Application filed: ______, 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
______ Recognized. ______ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for ______, 18
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State of Georgia} SS ON this twenty second
County of Jasper} day of October Eighteen hundred & thirty Eight, personally appeared in open Court before the Superior Court of Jasper County now sitting, Anthony Junior a resident of the County of Jasper & state aforesaid aged about seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered the service under the following named officers & served as herein after stated - He enlisted as a Regular Soldier in the County of Halifax state of Virginia where he then resided, under Captain Nathaniel Cooke - Ned Wade 1st. Lieut & Joseph Hopson 2 Lieut who was the man who enlisted him, he thinks in the spring of 1776 for two years - His Company marched to Williamsburgh & from thence to York town where he staid and at Gwins Island until his Company was marched to Baltimore Before his first service was out, he reinlisted at Baltimore for three years under Capt. Mosely he thinks in the winter of 1778 which he also served out - He afterwards hired as a substitute in a Militia Company at Halifax County Virginia under Captain Carr & marched to Little York where he was present at the taking of Cornwallis - He was about two months engaged in this last service - Deponent states that during the times of his regular service he was engaged in several important battles between the Americans & British - He was in the battles of
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Germantown & Brandywine in both of which Contests Genl. Washington Commanded the Americans - He was in some skirmishes besides these battles; of less importance - He states that from his great age & infirmities his recollection is, exceedingly bad & he cannot therefore recollect all the Regular field officers with whom he served during the term of his enlistments; but he remembers being at times under Major Nelson, Col. Ervis (or Irvis) & Col. Bullock, nor can he for the same reason give each March as he made it; but he passed in different parts of Pennsylvania, was several months in Philadelphia where he was innoculated for the small pox - he recollects staying over winter at a place Called Middle Brook, he thinks in Pennsylvania, - he also recollects that during his service he was marched to reinforce Genl. Gates, but hearing that he had Captured Burgoine he returned - Deponent has no record of his age, but thinks from what he has heard his Father say he must be at least 73 years of age - he had a discharge given him at Trenton, but lost it, & got another at York town after the taking of Cornwallis but lost it also, - Deponent states that he applied some four or five years since while he lived in Henry County, Georgia, for a pension, but failed to obtain it as he understood, because he did not prove his service by a witness - since then he has found out John Harrell a
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of Bibb County who was in the army with him; by whom he is now able to prove his services - He knows of no one else in Georgia by whom he can prove his services but the said John Harrell - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Henry Dillon Clk Anthony Junior

We James Henderson a Clergyman residing in the County of Jasper & Henry Dillon residing in the same hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Anthony Junior who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 79 years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion - Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
James Henderson
Henry Dillon

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, & served as he states - And the
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Court further Certifies, that it appears to them that James Henderson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in Jasper County & that Henry Dillon who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Jasper & is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to Credit
22 Oct. 1838 Adam G. Saffold Judge S.C.O.C.

I Henry Dillon Clerk of the Superior Court of Jasper County, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Anthony Junior for a pension - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 22 day of October 1838
Henry Dillon Clk
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State of Georgia} Before me William Cumming a
Bibb County} Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared John Harrell who being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that he was well acquainted with Anthony Junior, now a citizen of Jasper County, Georgia, in the Revolutionary War - that said Anthony Junior belonged to the Continental army, that deponent knows that said Anthony Junior served as much as five years, but at this distance of time, in the present infeebled state of his mind & body, he cannot remember the name of the officer under whom he enlisted, nor the various officers in that length of time with whom he served but deponent knows that at the time of the surrender of Cornwallis, the said Anthony Junior belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Carr, the regiment not now remembered by Witness - This deponent was in various engagements, with the said Anthony Junior, all of which are not now recollected, but he was with him at the battles, of the Brandywine Red Bank, & German town - Deponent was born in Burton County, North Carolina near the Virginia line, that he moved from North Carolina, to South Carolina about one year after the surrender of Cornwallis, from which place he moved to the State of Georgia, about twenty one years ago where he has resided ever since, that from the best information in his power he is now in the Eighty seventh year of his age, that he now resides in
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Bibb County in Georgia} John Harrell
sworn to & subscribed before}
me this 20th Apl. 1838-}
Wm Cumming J.P.

Georgia} I Joseph J Nobleman Clerk
Bibb County} of the Inferior Court of aforesaid County do hereby Certify that William Cumming is an acting Justice in said County of Bibb and that good faith and credit is given to his official acts
Jos Nobleman Clk
of the Inferior Court of Bibb
April 21st 1838 | County
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FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City
Dist Columbia

Dec 3
Geo:
Anthony Junior
Act 1832.

34742
Anthony Junior
Ga
Act 7 June 1832

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MONTICELLO Ga.
NOV 21
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34742
Anthony Junior
Ga
Act 7 June 1832

Geo:
Anthony Junior
Act 1832

FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City
Dist. Columbia

[stamp]
MONTICELLO Ga.
NOV 21
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Monticello (Ga) Nov. 22d 1838

Sir
I have the honor to enclose you the Declaration of Mr. Anthony Junior of Jasper County Georgia, for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 1832 -
So soon as his case can be examined, I would be greatly obliged for an answer from you & am with
high respect
Your ob. st.
J: W: Burney

J L Edwards Esq
Com. of pensions
Washington City