Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1418, Ambrose Bull, N.C.
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Service N.C.
Bull, Ambrose
     Elizabeth

Number R.1418
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Declaration

  In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th  July 1836.

State of Georgia
County of Pike       S.S.
    On this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before me, William Harris, one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Bull, a resident of the County of Pike and State of Georgia, 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 4th 1836.  That she is the widow of Ambrose Bull, who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War, that the said Ambrose Bull volunteered in Craven County in the State of North Carolina, and according to the best of her knowledge and belief in or about the month of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy -nine, the day of the month she does not recollect; that he served in a company commanded by Captain Roach, whose Christian name she believes was Charles or David, and left the service at the expiration of six months, the term for which he volunteered to serve, and that said Company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Jonas Johnson, that her said husband resided in the County of Craven and State of North Carolina
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when he entered the service as a volunteer and
marched from thence to some point in the State of South Carolina, and on the march passed through the town of Kingston in the County of Lenoir in the State of North Carolina; that she does not know or recollect that her said husband was in any engagement or battle; She further declares that she was married
to the said Ambrose Bull in the said County of Craven in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven by Justice of the Peace, who furnished a certificate of the said Marriage which was in her possession, but has
been lost or mislaid within the last six years; that her husband the aforesaid Ambrose Bull died in the month of March one thousand seven hundred and Eighty nine in the said County of Craven where he had previously resided, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period; that she has no
documentary evidence to support her claim. that she is unable from the lapse of time or death of individuals to obtain testimony to prove the service of her said husband, but recollects that Fredrick Johnson and ┃
William Winham who are now deceased served in Captain Roach's Company with her said husband; that she was born in the month of January Seventeen three Eighty five years of
hundred age and is laboring under bodily infirmities incident to old age.-
Elizabeth Bull (her mark)
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me
William Harris Justice of the Inferior Court
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State of Georgia
Pike County 

I, William Harris, one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify, that in the [illegible] day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty eight Mrs. Elizabeth Bull made oath to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration before me. I do further certify that she is a respectable lady and her oath is entitled to credit and that she is unable to attend Court by reason of bodily infirmity
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written
William Harris Justice of the Inferior Court.
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War Dept. Pension Office
Oct 13, 1838
The declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Bull widow of
Ambrose Bull has been examined she alleges that her husband volunteered as a militia man of N. Carlina for six months. The militia of that state did not serve as long as six months under
one engagement. The Act of 4 July 1836 does not provide for those whose husband served less then six months. The claim has therefore been rejected and the papers filed in this office

James Eppinger
Zebulon
Pike Co., Georgia
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[illegible - writing off scanned page]

   Dec 19 '38
OC
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                          Department of War
                           Pension Office
                            Dec. 19 1838

Sir,
    I return herewith the letter of Mr. Eppinger, and also a copy of a letter addressed to him on the 13th of Oct. last, stating the reasons why the claim of Mrs. Elizabeth Bull of Georgia had been disallowed. [illegible]

Hon Seaton Grantland
HR

OC 
Act July 4 1836
3814
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Elizabeth Bull
Georgia
Rejected

Let 13 Oct 1838
J Eppinger [illegible] to Hou.
Seaton Grantland 19 Dec' 38

[illegible] and service less than six months
1418
Act 4 July 1836.
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[illegible] 1418??

Rejected
Elizabeth Bull

Alleges: list of rejected claims 
printed in 1852 shows cause of
rejection as follows: "He did not serve six months"
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# 3814
Elizabeth Bull
Georgia
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

STATE OF GEORGIA.
By His Excellency George R. Gilmer
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militia thereof.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME KNOW YE, That William Harris whose
certificate and attestation is given
and made to the within declaration
was at the time of making the same
holding and exercising the office of Justice of the Inferior Court of the County of Pike in said State of Georgia:
and that his certificate is in due form.----

THEREFORE, all due credit and authority are, and ought to be had and given to his attestation as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of this State to be put and affixed.  DONE at the State House, in Milledgeville, this Twenty second day 
of August in the year our Lord, eighteen hundred and Thirty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the Sixty third
BY THE GOVERNOR:
W. A. Tennille