Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4958, Meshack Fuller, [BLANK]
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(3-1776)
SERVICE.                                           NUMBER
Fuller, Meshack or Meshac           W.4958
Bethany

CONTENTS
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[Left Side]

18068

South Carolina

Meshac Fuller

Of Columbia in the State of S. Carolina who was a private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Habersham of the Georgia line, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 26 of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of July 1821 and sent to the Hon Mr Overstreet House of Representatives

Arrears to 4th of 4 Mar 1820 $170.58
Semi anl. All’ce ending [crossed out]        
21 Mos 10/31 $170.58
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

[Right Side - sideways text]
[illegible] sent to Wm A Brickell by 20 May 1822 Columbia South Carolina
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Left Side
[Illegible]
Return of certifiied
17 Nov [illegible]
City returned [illegible]
[illegible] & sent to J. H. G. McCutchen 
20 [illegible] 33

[sideways text]
[Illegible] died Dec 21, 1854
See A. 13

Right Side
1156
Georgia
Bethany Fuller,
Widow of Meshac ? who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848.


Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Nov 1854 and sent to J. H. G. McCutchen New York N.Y
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State of Georgia
County of Warren

On the 20th day of March AD 1854 personally appeared before me one of the judges of the County Court for the County of Warren State of Georgia Bethany Fuller who being by me first duly sworn Declared that she is a resident of Warren County and about eighty two of years. That she is the widow of Meshac Fuller who was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain Harris Company that her said husband drew a pension of ninety six dollars per annum in South Carolina as will appear by his certificate filed by her in the pension office that Meshac Fuller her husband died May 16th 1829 since which she has remained his widow and is now his widow.

She further declares that she was married to the said Meshac Fuller in Marlborough District South Carolina at the House of George McDaniel by the Revd William Bennett a Baptist Clergyman on the ninth day of August seventeen hundred and ninety eight that she knows of no public or private record of the same but offers that affidavit of Willliam McDaniel who was present at the ceremony and being old and feeble she does not feel able to attend court her named before marriage was Lucas. Bethany Fullern + Mark
Sworn to and subscribed
[illegible]
State of Georgia Warren County
I do hereby certify that I qualified Mrs Bethany Fuller to the above and foregoing affidavit and that I am the Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the State and County above written this march the 20th 1854
Arden R Mershon Ordinary
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State of Georgia
Warren County

On the 20th day of March AD 1854 personally appeared before me one of the judges of the Warren County Court Absolem Jackson and James Norris Serv who being first duly sworn according to Law State that they are residents  of Warren County Georgia aged about eighty and two years that they are well acquainted with Bethany Fuller who has sworn to and subscribed by her mark the annexed declaration in their presence and have known her for a number of years we believe (and know) her to be the identical person set forth in her declaration annexed that the said Meshac Fuller - her late husband died about the year stated in her declaration and that ever since she has remained his widow and is now his widow and that they verily believe from the character of Mrs Fuller for truth and veracity that she was married on the day and year stated by her and that they have no interest in her claim for a pension. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and [illegible] that attest Arden R Mershon Ordinary

Absolem Jackson
James Norris
his + Mark

State of Georgia Warren County
I do certify that I George W Dickson Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County do certify that Arden R Mershon is Ordinary in & for said County duly authorized & commission to administer oaths for general purposes of state it is his own proper signature of state Absolem Jackson & James Norris whose names appear to the above are credible and disinterested witnesses given under my hand and seal of office this 20th March 1854 George W Dickson Clerk J. C. H
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South Carolina
Richland District

Personally appeared Meshac Fuller and maker oath that he was a private soldier in the war of the revolution and as such served for the space of twelve months against the common enemy.  That he entered the service in March 1776 and received his dis=charge on 19th March 1777 - that he served during the period above stated in the continental line - Francis Harris was his first captain, but John Habersham then 1st lieutenant commanded the company before he left it and at the time after leaving it Captain Henley commanded the regiment to which he belonged was the firsts in the Georgia line - [Illegible] McIntosh was the Col. when [“Fuller” crossed out] this deponent first enlisted but Joseph Habersham then Major [illegible] after=ward [afterward] made colonel. This deponent has never been allowed a pension by the law of the United States.
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This deponent at present is a resident in the District of Richland State of South Carolina resided about five years ago in the District of Marlborough in the same state. While living there his house was consumed by fire & burned to the ground and with it everything he possessed. This deponent cannot say positively that his discharge was consumed in his house. He believes so but cannot say so with absolute certainty. Many year have elapsed since he last saw it - but it is probable that it was consumed among the few papers he owned and which were burnt his house.

This deponent is aged infirm a cripple and had a family to support from his reduced circumstances he indeed needs the assistance of his country for his support.

Sworn to an subscribed thy 26th day of May 1868 before me Meshach Fuller [signature]

Abm Nott [signature] 
The Court for Richland District Nott who hath attested through writing of the Honorable Abraham of [illegible] of South Caronlina

Office of Common Pleas
Richland District 8 August 1820
I James S. Guignard Clerk of do certify that these signatures of [illegible] affidavit is the true & proper hand with one of the associate judges
James S. Guignard Clerk
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South Carolina
Richland Dist [District]

On this twenty sixth day of June 1821 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said District, Mes-hack (Meshack) Fuller age sixty six years residents in the said District who being first duly sworn according to the law doth [illegible] declare that he served in the revolutionary war and following in the first Regiment of the Georgia Line commanded by Colonels Joseph Habersham in Captain Francis Harris’ company - afterwards in the regiment of South Carolina troops under the command of Colonel George Hicks in Captain Thomas Cochran company and was taken prisoner at the fall of Charleston in South Carolina. [Illegible] served a short time in Colonel Horry’s regiment in South Carolina: that he also and afterward served in the North Carolina regiment of militia under the command of Colonel Joseph Taylor, Benjamin Sewell and of William Brick [illegible]. That he was at the battle of Savannah at the battle of Stono and at the siege of Charleston where he was taken prisoner as before mentioned. That he had applied for, and obtained a pension certificate of eight dollars per month up to the [blank] which to certificate is registered in the offices of the Secretary of War
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in Book [blank] volume [blank] page [blank] and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United State on this 18th day of March 1818: and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part there of with intent thereby so to diminish it and to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled an “Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has anyone in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed:
viz: 
5 small hogs valued at $5.00
1 cow & calf $18.00
Household furniture 10.00
33.00
3 pigs omitted 1.50
34.50

And this declaration further states that he is a farmer by occupation it wants to undergo much labor: that he had six children living with him viz: a daughter aged nineteen, a son aged sixteen years, a son aged fourteen years, a son age a twelve years, a girl
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Aged ten years, a boy aged five years, who being all young are unable to contribute much to the support of this declarant.
Sworn to and declared on the 26th June 1821 in open Court
Thomas T Willison
Court in Equity CD
Meshach Fuller

Sworn before me in open Court this 26th June 1821
Henry W DeSaussure 
Judge in Equity

I certify that from the evidence produced to me, I am of the opinion that the value of the property of the above named declarant Meshach Fuller, to the above schedule exhibited is thirty four dollars and fifty cents and no more, and that he stands in need of assistance from his country.
Henry Wm DeSaussure
Judge in Equity
28th Feby 1822
South Carolina 
Columbia Dist.
I Thomas T Willisson, commissioner in Equity of said District do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the original schedule filed in my office as a record: And I do further
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certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty four dollars and fifty cents and no more. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this second day of March 1822.
Thomas L. Willisson [signature]
C.E.C.D
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April 6, 1936
BA-J/MCS
Meshac Fuller, W.4958

Mrs. O.P. Barton
1408 W. Duval Street
Jacksonville, Florida

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Meshach Fuller, a Revolutionary War soldier from South Carolina. 

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 4958 based upon the military serviced of Meshach Fuller.

He enlisted March 19, 1776, in Augusta, Georgia, served as a private in Captain Francis Harris’, John Habersham’s and Handley’s companies in the First Georgia Regiment under Colonels McIntosh and Joseph Habersham and was discharged March 19, 1777.  He afterwards served in Captain Thomas Cochran’s company in Colonels George Hick’s and Horry’s South Carolina regiments and in Colonels Joseph Taylor’s, Benjamin Sewel’s and William Brickell’s North Carolina regiments, lengths of these enlistment not given.  He was in the battles of Stono and Savannah and was taken prisoner during the siege of Charleston. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1818, at which time he was living in Richland District, South Carolina, having moved there from Marlborough District, South Carolina.  Previous to that time he had lived in North Carolina.

In 1819 he stated he was sixty-two years of age and in 1821 he gave his age as sixty-six years.  The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

Meshach Fuller died May 16, 1829, in Richland District, South Carolina.
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This soldier married August 9, 1798, in Marlborough District, South Carolina, Bethany or Fanny Lucas.  At this time he has several children by a previous marriage but no details of the earlier marriage were given.

His widow, Bethany, was allowed pension on her application executed March 20, 1854, at which time she was about eighty-two years of age and was living in Warren County, Georgia.

Bethany Fuller died December 21, 1854.

In 1821 Meshach Fuller stated that he had six children then living with him, namely: a daughter aged nineteen, a son aged sixteen, a son aged fourteen, a son aged twelve, a girl aged ten and a boy aged five years.  He did not give the names of his children and there are no further data relative to the family of Meshach Fuller.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1936 Apr 6 List to Mrs O. P. Barton

Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 4958
Bethany Fuller
Widow
Meshac Fuller
Pvt. Rev; Hav

Act: July 29, 1848
Index: Vol. A, Page 258


[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Left Side]

Bethany Fuller - widow of Meshac Fuller.

Revolutionary Pension Act 29th July 1848. 
See B Fs papers July 7/38

Mesha F’s Act 1818
Admitted SoCa [South Carolina]

[Right Side]
Pension Office
No1387
Nov 4. 1854

Sir
Please state when the within Meshac Fuller died.
Very respectfy
S. Cole [signature]
for [illegible]

R.J. Atkinson Esq
30 Audr
Act July 29 1848

He has been paid to 4 March 1829
[illegible signature]
Acting Auditor
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V 10.970
Bethany Fuller
of Ga
Rejected 
Let to A. H. Stephen’s June 28th
[illegible] J. H. G. McCutchen Mar 29/54
To same May 27/54
Same June 2 1854
Act 7 July 38
To same Sept 12/54
Same Oct 6 1864
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[postage stamp]
JACKSONVILLE MAR 6 1230
1936 FLA

[Savings Bonds Stamp]
BUY U.S.SAVING BONDS ASK YOUR POSTMASTER

[Stamp] One Cent 1 Jefferson 1

[stamp] THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

[postage stamp] 
[Circular Stamp ringed 1-12]
RECIEVED Mar 9 1936 MAIL SUB-DIV 
VETS. ADM. READER #26

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C
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Jacksonville Fla
Sirs,
Can you furnish any information concerning Meshach Fuller a S.C. Revolutionary Soldier who served in a Georgia Line.  Your assistance will be appreciated
Mrs O.P. Barton
1408 W Duval St
Jacksonville Fla
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M. Fuller

Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year, by the Prest Branch Bank US. in Charleston, S Carolina
No pension is payable until arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate.

“Payable to the 4th of March 1820 but there after no payment can be made before exhibiting a schedule of property 

Registered , by Benjn [Benjamin] L Beall
Clerk, in book B, volume 9 page 146
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March 1818 Meshac Fuller late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty sixth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 7th day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty one

J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Meshac Fuller
Died May 16. 1829
Identity and widowhood and marriage Aug 9th 1798
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State of South Carolina Marlborough district

That on the Seventeen day of February Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Four Personally appeared before me William Hamer magistrate for the district of Marlborough South Carolina William McDaniel who being duly sworn deposes and says that his is a resident of Marlborough District South Carolina and that he resided in said district in the year 1798 and was present and saw Rev,d William Bennet a regular Minister of the Baptist Church marry Meshac Fuller and Fanny or Bethany Lucas to the best of deponent recollection was in and about the year 1798 and that last accounts this deponent had of Bethany Fuller widow of Meshac Fuller resided in Warren County Georgia and does further state that Meshac Fuller was reputed and known as a soldier of the Revolution 
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written 

Wm. McDaniel
His X Mark

L.J. Wm Hamer magistrate for the district of Marlborough South Carolina hereby certify that Wm McDaniel who has sworn to the above affidavit is a person known to me to be entitled to credit & I certify that I have no interest in the claim of Bethany Fuller for a pension given under my hand and seal
February the 17th day 1854

Wm. Hamer
Magistrate
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The State of South Carolina Marlborough District
I, Peter McColl Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions in and for the District aforesaid in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that William Hamer, Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit was made (as appears by his name in his own hand writing attesting the same) was at the date thereof a magistrate for the district aforesaid who had been duly appointed and qualified and had signed the Roll Kept according to the Law in this office that according to the laws of this state a Magistrate is authorized to administer an oath and the Roll of Magistrate for his District is kept by the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court at Marlborough Court House the 18th day of February Anno Domini 1854
P McColl Clerk
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Bethany Fuller
Widow of Meshac Fuller
Act 29th July 1848
Georgia [illegible]
Additional Evidence

JHG McCutchen [signature]
Present
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Washington City D.C
Oct 3rd 1854

Sir
I herewith file the affidavit of William McDaniel in proof of the marriage of Meshac & Bethany Fuller prior to 1800 and respectfully submit my review of the case in answer to your letter of Sept 12th 54.

The only question in issue between the dept & claimant is the date of the marriage which the widow on the day of May 1844 stated on oath occurred 9nAug 1798 at a time when the date of marriage as stated would reject & did reject the claim.  This is a strong circumstance to show the truth of the statement as to the right of claimants declaration see Rhoda O’Quins case Major Moultors p 533 add to this the positive testimony of Wm McDaniel who was present & says the marriage took place sometime in the year 1798 at his father’s house & mentions several circumstances connected with the marriage, thus we have two persons certified to the respectable testifying to the same fact and one of two conclusions can only be drawn 1st that they have conspired to defraud the Gov [Government]
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and perjure themselves or they establish the 
fact of marriage at the time stated Greenleaf on Evidence states as a principle of law unquestioned that"a witness testifying to a fact & unimpeached is conclusive evidence of said fact."  but I propose to you beyond this rule and present the affidavit of Thos [Thomas] Bristol who states he removed it from ( as I am informed of a) into Marlboro District with his father in 1799 and Meshac
Fuller and his wife Bethany were living together as man and wife and were so reputed &c here is a circumstance (the removal) which is to my mind a conclusive test that the witness is correct as to the year. [illegible] when taken in connection with the proof of Wm McD and Mrs F [Fuller] herself all of whom sustain each other it appears to me the testimony is conclusive and certainly would be so considered in the courts of the country. As to the affidavit of 9th Aug 1819, I have but a few words to say in answer to the point raised as marked No 2 although not expressed it appears to be the identity In answer [illegible] that a woman living in a Southern clime the mother of six or more children and 47 years of age is in constitution and years "an aged woman." I grant that this mission to mention his wife in 1821 is a presumption of her death, between said two dates but let us see if there is any testimony to rebut this presumption
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Bethany Fuller swears she was alive in 1854 and that her maiden name was Lucas and the witnesses say Bethany Lucas married Meshac F before 1800.I trace her to Georgia; to raise & sustain this presumption you must assume he (MF) [Meshac Fuller] was married twice and both times married women by name Bethany Lucas.  This to say the least of it is not a very reasonable presumption. 

But sir as you on yesterday verbally stated to me that you did not see how proof “of the ages and names of the children “(as the eldest according to MF’s statement was born in 1803) could tend to prove or explain the marriage prior to 1800 and that position was abandoned and I agree with your letter that the time of marriage is “the only issue in the case” and I respectfully submit that two credible witnesses who testify positively to the marriage prior to 1800 and claimant’s oath ought by every principle of Law and justice to dispel any presumption and I hope it may so influence you as to warrant the allowance of the claim.  Pardon me for pressing the claim but I feel that I have a good case and my duty to my client induces me to be  thus agents.

JHG McCutchen [signature]
[Illegible]
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[Sideways illegible]

[circular stamp] 
Warrenton, Ga
May 13

Mr Alexander Stephens M of Congress 
To the City of Washington
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Georgia Warren County Personally appeared before me Bethany Fuller who being duly sworn deposeth and saith upon oath that she is the widow of Meshac Fuller U.S. pensioner and that she was married to him on the 9th day of March [crossed out] August 1898 and that he died the 16th of May 1829 and that she has no other way to prove her marriage but by her own oath sworn to and subscribed to before this the 10 of May 1844. Bethany Fuller [x her mark]
William G Scruggs J.P. 

Dear Sir the above is an affidavit of Mrs. Bethany Fuller. She is desirous for you to attending to it for her. She has no schedule to send you of her property for she has not above15 dollars in everything she possess she is very needy. She prays that you would urge her claims and if you should be successful in getting her pension she will ample reward you she [illegible] sends you all of her husband's pensioner papers by which you will see that he drew his pension as a citizen of South Carolina Sir I want you to write to me as quick as you can direct your letter to Warrenton, Georgia. So, nothing more but remains yours. 
William G Scruggs [signature]
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Bethany Fuller
widow of Meshac Fuller
Ga Suspended 
Act 1838
JHG McCutchen [signature]
Present
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State of Georgia
Warren County
Personally appeared before me the 21st day of June AD 1853 Bethany Fuller who being duly sworn according to Law Declares that she is the widow of Meshac Fuller a soldier in the Revolution and the identical person who applied for a pension and that the same was rejected.  She therefore here by appointment  JHG McCutchen of Washington DC her true and lawful attorney to prosecute her claim to a pension to file evidence in support of the same [illegible] its allowance and to do all acts necessary in and about the premises. 

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written. 
William A Ricketson [signature]
William Scruggs J.P [signature]

Bethany Fuller x [her mark]
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Georgia Warren County
I to hereby certify that William B [illegible] whose name appears [illegible] this written instrument was at the time he signed the same an acting justice of the peace in and on said county duly authorized to administer oaths for general purpose and that his signature there to is genuine this 29th day of June 1853

George M Dickson Clerk
[signature]
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[Illegible]
Geo Henry 1828
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State of South Carolina
Richland District

Be it known that before me Joseph M. Clintock Justice of the Quorum in the district aforesaid personally appeared Meschack Fuller and made oath that he is the identical Meshac Fuller named in the original certificate in his possession of which the following is a copy. 
War Department

Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th March 1818 Meshac Fuller late a private in the army of the Revolution is inscribed on the pension list Roll of the South Carolina Agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the 26th day of May. One thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

Given at the war office of the United States the seventeeth day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

That his is entitled to eight dollars per month, on account of wounds and disabilities received or incurred in the service of the Untied States during the revolutionary war.  That he served in Captain Harris’s company of infantry in
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in the first regiment at the time he was disabled; that he now resides in So [South] Carolina in Richland District and has resided there in said state for the space of twenty some years past & that provides thereto he resided in North Carolina.

Sworn & subscribed this 6th day of September one thousand and eight hundred and 28 
Meshach Fuller 

Before Me.

Jos [Joseph] McClintock [illegible]
Know all men by these presents that I Meshack Fuller of Richland District a pensioner of Richland District [crossed out] the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Geo [George] Henry my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in the [illegible] of Charleston My pension from the fourth day of March last to the fourth day of September.
Witness my hand and seal this 6th day of September. Eighteen hundred and 28. 

Sealed and delivered in presence of Joseph McClintock [illegible]
Meshach Fuller
State of South Carolina Richland District
Be it know that on the 6th day of September One thousand Eight hundred and twenty-eight, before me Jospeh McClintock on of the justice of the Quorum in the foresaid district aforesaid, personally appeared Meshack Fuller above named and acknowledge the [illegible] of Attorney to be his act and deed. in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the day and year earlier mentioned Jos: [Joseph] McClintock [illegible]
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The state of South Carolina Marlboro District 

That on this seventeenth day of May eighteen hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me Wm [William] Hamer magistrate for the state and district aforesaid Thomas Bristow of the district and state aforesaid who being duly sworn deposes and says in the fore part of the year seventeen hundred and ninety nine his father moved into Marlborough district and in the settlement of Meshac Fuller he found him and his wife Bethany living together as man and wife this deponent further states that he believes they lived together prior to the year 1799. They were considered as man and wife by the people of the neighborhood.  This deponent states that he is seventy-three years of age.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the aforesaid date above written. 

State of South Carolina, Marlborough District

I Wm Hamer magistrate for the state and districted aforesaid certify that Thomas Bristow of the state and district aforesaid who has sworn to the above affidavit is a person to me well known to be entitled to credit and I do hereby certify that I have no interest in the claim of Bethany Fuller for a pension. Given under by hand & seal May the 16th day 1854

Wm [William] Hamer Magistrate {seal}
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me to be entitled to credit and I do hereby certify that I have know [no] interest in the claim of Bethany Fuller for [illegible]
Given under my hand and seal
October the 25th day of 1854
Wm [William] Hamer {seal}
Magistrate

[sideways text]
Gen [General] Washington died Dec 14th, 1799
marriage before January 1, 1800
Bethany Fuller Georgia
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The State of South Carolina
Marlborough District

That on the twenty fifth day of October AD. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally came before me William Hamer Magistrate in and fore the district aforesaid Thomas Bristow of the district and state aforesaid who being duly sworn on the Evangiles upon oath says that he moved from Granville County North Carolina in the early part of the spring A.D one Thousand Seven hundred and ninety nine to Marlborough district in the state aforesaid and settled in the same neighborhood with Meshac Fuller and Bethany Fuller his wife and shortly after moving into the neighborhood he became acquainted with the said Meshac and Bethany Fuller his wife and they were living together as man and wife and were so reputed to be in the neighborhood and therefore presumed they were married prior to the spring of 1799. deponent says there are two facts by which he is able to fix the year and time aforesaid and from which he knows he cannot be mistaken as to the time to wit he will remembers that it was in the spring of the year of 1799 that he moved from North Caroline to Marlborough district South Carolina and that he had been living in the district of Marlborough about a year when he heard of the death of General George Washington and he farther says that he lived in the same neighborhood with Meshac Fuller and Bethany Fuller until about the year 1816 when Meshac Fuller and Bethany Fuller his wife removed to Richland District South Carolina and that he was at their house in Richland District in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty three and they were still  living together as and wife and this deponent is informed and believes that the said Meshac Fuller died in the last mentioned district of the state aforesaid and that his widow Bethany Fuller has since removed to Geogia where is now resides and he farther states that the said Meshac Fuller was by reputation a soldier in the Revolutionary War and is informed and believes that he drew a pention [pension]
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in his life time [lifetime] for his service he makes this affidavit to explain his affidavit dated on the 16th May 1854 wherein he stated his residence age and therefore does not repeal the same

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this day and year first aforesaid 
Wm [William] Hamer
Magistrate

State of South Carolina
Marlborough district

I William Hamer Magistrate in the state and district aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Bristow who has sworn to the above affidavit is a person to me to be entitled to credit and I hereby certify that I have know [no] interest in the claim of Bethany Fuller for a [illegible] 
given under my hand and seal
October the 25th day 1854
Wm [William] Hamer {seal}
Magistrate
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Meshac Fuller stated in 1821 that he was living with him 6 children.  the eldest a daughter aged 19 yrs. Did not mention a wife.

Wm [William] McDaniel swears the marriage was "in and about the year 1798" and he was present.

Thos [Thomas] Bristow says in 1799 his father moved into Marlborough Dist. [District] & then Meshac and Bethany were cohabiting as man & wife.

Neither states and circumstance by which he fixes the date.

Later - See afft [affidavit] of Bristow of 25 Oct 1854.
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Bethany Fuller
Widow of Meshac
Georgia
Rejected under act of July 7, 1838 and admitted under act of July 29th 1848 at $96 per annum from March 1848
Certificate payable to Claimant

Atty [Attorney]
J. H. G. McCutchen
New York City
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Brief in the case of Bethany Fuller, widow of Meshac
Warren County and State of Georgia act July 29th, 1848
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") [for increase crossed out]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or support by rolls? If either, state the substance:
Meshac Fuller was pensioned under act of 1818 & cit $96 per annum for 1 yr's [years] service paid to Mar [March] 4, 1829 - died May 16th, 1829.

[illegible] proof of marriage [underlined] in 1798 - also of identity and widowhood. 

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Names and residence of Agent
J. H. G. McCutchen
New York City
S G. Dodge
Examining Clerk
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Department of the Interior,
Pension Office
Nov 17, 1854
Sir, 
On the [illegible] a letter was sent form this office directed to J.H.G McCutchen, Esq. New York, NY. Will you be pleased to return the same to this office?
Very respectfully,
Your [illegible] [illegible]
S Cole,
Chief Clerk

[Illegible]
Post Master
New York
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J. H. G. McCutchen
Oct 6 18 [illegible]
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Pension Office
Oct [October] 6 1834
Sir
I have carefully reexamined the case of Bethany Fuller widow of Meshac of Ga [Georgia] and must persist in my refusal to allow it under the act of July 29, 1818. No record of marriage can be produced, and no witness states any circumstance by which he is enabled to fix the date of that event. They do not even show that they were of an age to be likely to remember dates.  This should be shown by an exhibition of a record of their ages. No significant explanation has been given of the presumption naturally arising against her identity as the widowhood the pensioner.
JHG McCutchen Esq [signature]
Present
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10.97
Bethany Fuller
Ga [Georgia]
Act 7th July '38 [1838]
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House of Representatives
20 July 1846
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
Enclosed I include the papers of Mr. Fuller asking a pension just as they have been forwarded to me.  Will you examine and [illegible] on them and let me know if the claim can be allowed and if not what the defect in [illegible] gratefully 
A H Stephens [signature]
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Washington City D.C.
May 23 1854

Sir
I enclose an additional affidavit to sustain the marriage of Bethany to Meshac Fuller.  I hope the enclosed will satisfy the office the claim ought to be allowed under Act 29th July 1848. 
The papers will be found Act 69 July 48 (formerly 1 July 1838) Georgia Suspended

Respectfully yours
JHG McCutchen

Hon LP Waldo
Court of Pensions
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Georgia Richmond County
Personally came before me Edward [illegible] after being examined maketh the following affidavit. I was well acquainted with Meshac Fuller the year 1776 in the City of [illegible] and Fuller served at the time of my being acquainted with him then under Capt [captain] Frances Harris in the first company that was [illigible] Georgia and I served under Capt [captain] Jacob Coleson, both of the [illegible] Georgia regiment and I was [illegible] on the day of April 1777 and [illegible] to the [illegible] that I saw in Col Joseph Habersham, [illegible] Meshac Fuller was discharged on the nineteen of March previous. I do solemnly swear the above to be just and true so help me God.

Sworn before me this 12th day of April 1820 
Edward [illegible] his + mark

Holland McTyre [signature] [illegible]

I to certify and swear that I have been acquainted with Edward [illegible] this twelve or fifteen years and would believe the said [illegible] on his oath.
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[Illegible] man in my acquaintance swore to before me the 12th day of [illegible] 1820
Holland McTyre
R Bush JP

Georgia Richmond County 
Clerk's Office Superior Court

I John H. Mann Clerk of the Inferior Court of Richmond County Do hereby certify that the Honorable Holland McTyre before whom the first of the foregoing affidavit was made is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Inferior Court for said county duly commissioned and sworn as appears for record and I do also certify that Richard Buss Esquire before who the last of the foregoing affidavits was made a Justice of the Peace for said County of Richmond.

Given under my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of April in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty. 
John H Mann [signature]
Cleark Richmond Inferior Court
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Meshach Fuller
Letter from J. L. Edwards
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War Department, PENSION OFFICE
May 30th, 1822
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.  You will be paid, at the ensuing semi-annual payment in September next, the sum that may be then due from the time of suspending your pension.  Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto. 
I am, respectfully, 
your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. Meshac Fuller
U. S. Pensioner of Columbia District S.C. 
Care of Wm [William] A Brickell Esq
Columbia S. C.
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South Carolina
Richland District
Know all men by these presents that I Meshac Fuller late a private in the army of the Revolution and now inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the South Carolina Agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month as appears by a certificate of the War department of the United States dated the 17th day of February one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty one and entitled to be paid at the semiannual payment in September 1823 the sum then due for the last six months of my said pension do hereby make, constitute and appoint Ken Boyce my true and lawful attorney with full power and authority to receive for me and in my name the amount due to me in September 1823 for my said last six months pension.

Hereby agreeing to ratify allow and confirm all and whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do execute and perform in virtue of the power.

In witness where of I have hereunto unto set my hand and seal this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred and twenty-three.
[Illegible] Ken Boyce inserted attorney in lieu of David Edward
James G Holmes
Meshach Fuller [signature]
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South Carolina
Richland District
Before me James R Guignard Notary Public and Q. U ex officio Personally came Meshack Fuller and acknowledged the written Power of Attorney to by his act & deed
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal at Columbia the fifth day of September Anno Domini 1823 

James S. Guignard
Notary Public
J QU ex. off
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Power of Attorny
Ken Boyce 
1824
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STATE OF South Carolina
Richland DISTRICT.
Be it known, That before me, in the District aforesaid, personally appeared, and made oath that he is the identical named in an original certificate in his possession, of which the following is a copy. 
WAR DEPARTMENT.
I certify, that in conformity with the law of the United States, Meshack Fuller late a private in the Revolutionary War inscribed on the pension list roll of the South Carolina Agency at the rate of [illegible] dollars [blank] cents per month, to commence of the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. Given at the War Office of the United States this Eighteen day of Sept [September] one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Secretary of War.
That he is entitled to a pension of eight  dollars [blank] cents per month, on the account of wounds and disabilities, received or incurred in the service of the United States, during the Revolutionary War - That he served in Captain [illegible] company of Infantry in the First Regiment, at the time he was disabled - That he now resided in Richand District and has resided there for the space of seven years past; and that previous thereto, he resided in N. Carolina [North Carolina] 
Sworn and subscribed, this [blank] day of [blank] before me, [blank]
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Know all men by these presents, That I Meshack Fuller of Richland District a Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Ken Boyce my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensioners in the City of Charleston, my pension from the Fourth day of September to the Fourth day of March next
Witness my hand and seal, this eighteenth day of March 1824
Sealed and delivered in the presence of}
 Meshack Fuller [signature] [circular stamp]
[illegible signature]
State of South Carolina Richland District.} ss.

BE IT KNOWN, That on the nineteenth day of [illegible] before me James S. Guignard Notary Public and Q U. ex officio in the District aforesaid, personally appeared Meshack Fuller above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his Act and Deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, the day and year last above mentioned.
James S. Guignard NQ of QU
N.B. The Power of Attorney must be dated on or after the day the pension becomes due. In case of the death of the Pensioner the original pension warrant must be surrendered, with a certificate of administration or executorship from the ordinary of the district in which the pensioner resided - and an affidavit of respectable witness as to the time of his death.
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James Oversheet
Washington City D.C. Maryland
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S.C. Columbia [illegible date]
Dear Sir,
I enclose to you the claim of Meshack Fuller for his revolutionary service and old [illegible] who reside in the [illegible] reputed a record of truth and in the most impoverished situation with a large family. By reference to certain endorsements on the back of some of the documents it will appear that there was compliance with what secured necessary at the war department to support the claim.

That made in red ink of the 1st July 1820 was compiled with and I confess that I thought nothing else was wanting but on the document being forwarded with a certificate of [illegible] Official capacity, they have been again [illegilbe] with a requisition which [illegilbe] at this [illegible] day be complied with. W. Calhoun was about when these documents were sent back, with the name of W. Adams attached to the last memorandum & which by some swears has been [illegible] off.

I will thank you in behalf of this applicant
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to speak to W. Calhoun on the subject who will explain to you the reason why [illegible] requirement of [illegible] of service is insisted on.

Several of the W. Taylors have spoken to me in relation to the claim of Fuller and as it will not be convenient for us to attend further to the [illegible] you will please inform W. Henry Taylor that result of your endeavors in behalf of this applicant.  He is a son of old Col Thomas Taylor and resided in Columbia.  The weather here is remarkably mild now resembling spring [illegible] winter. The Legislature of the state adjourned its session today. Internal [illegible] has [illegible] been impeded by that body. I leave here to [illegible] from whence I shall return to Charleston.  Wishing you health and an agreeable session. [illegible]
Yours with Esteem
Richard South
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State of South Carolina Richland District} ss
Be it know that before me Meshach Fuller in the district aforesaid personally appeared and made oath that he is the identical person named in an original certificate in his possession of which the following is a copy.

War Department 
I certify, that in conformity with the law of the United States Meshack Fuller, late a private in the Revolutionary War is inscribed in the pension list roll of the South Carolina Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
given at the [illegible] office of the United States this eighteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred twenty three
Signed - J.C. Colhoun Secretary of War
That he is entitled to a pension of eight dollars per month on account of wounds and disabilities he incurred in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War - that he served in Captain Harris's company of infantry in the first Regiments at the time he was disabled.  That he now resides in Richland District and has resided there for the space of seven years past and that previous thereto he resided in N. Carolina [North Carolina].
Meshack Fuller
Sworn and subscribed this 27th day of February 1824
before me
James S Guignard
Notary Public by Q. U: ex off [ex officio]
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Know all men by these presents, That I Meshack Fuller of Richland District a pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Henry P Taylor my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in the City of Charleston, my pension from the fourth day of September to the fourth day of March next [illegible]
Witness my hand and seal this 27th day of February Eighteen hundred and twenty-four 
Sealed and delivered Signed Meshach Fuller
in the presence of [illegible]
State of South Carolina
Richland District
Be it known this on the 27 day of February Eighteen hundred and twenty four before me James S Guignard Notary Public Q.U ex: off [ex officio] in the district aforesaid personally appeared Meshach Fuller above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year last mentioned. 
James L. Guignard Notary Public Q. U. : ex off
[ex officio]
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[left side]
Meshac Fuller
Habersham Geo Reg.
1776 to 1777

[Right side]
Exparte
Meshac Fuller

Fuller affidavit

further evidence of service and the Judges
certificate of indigent circumstances [illegible]

Vid. certificate within

see also Barrington
affidavit.
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South Carolina
Personally appeared before me W Jesse Taylor who after being duly sworn saith that he is acquainted with Meshac Fuller [illegible] circumstance in life and knows that he is an infirm man and in every indigent circumstance obtaining his support by the labor and industry of an aged wife alone.

Sworn to before me this 9th of August 1819
R. Gautt

Jesse Taylor [signature]

[Sideways]
James S. Guignard 
Clerk Richland District
[illegible postage circular stamp]

[continued]
I Richard Gautt an associate
Justice of the State of South Carolina
do certify that I am entirely satisfied
of the truth contained in the affidavit
of W.  Jesse Taylor, that the applicant
is in indigent circumstances and standing
in need of his Country aid for support
R. Gautt [signature]
Columbia 9 Sept 1819

South Carolina Richland District}
I James S Guignard clerk of the Honorable 
Court of Common Pleas in and for the district aforesaid do hereby certify that Richard Gautt Esquire who hath attested the above affidavit and signed the above certificate is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the State aforesaid. I do further certify that Abraham Nott Esqr who hath attested the preceding affidavit is also an Associate Judge of the said Court
Given under my hand the 11th day of Septem 1819
James S. Guignard Clerk
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[Top left]
[illegible]

[Bottom left]
1 July 1820
It is required, that the testimony, on oath of two or more disinterested and credible persons, certified as such, by the judge explicitly prove the applicant's service 9 month in cont. on Continental estab. 

[Top Right]
Meshack Fuller Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
26 December 1819
Col Habersham, afterward Col. McIntosh's reg
Georgia Line
17 March 1776 to March 1777 one year

[illegible]

Richard Gautt, agt,
Columbia S.C
rec'd 16 Aug 1820

[upside down text]
Application of Meshac Fuller
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Application of Meshac Fuller
[upside down script]
Meshack Fuller
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
26 December 1819
Col: Habersham [illegible]
col: McIntosh's reg
Georgia line
March 1779 One Years
[upside down text illegible]
Richard Gautt  [illegible]
Columbia S. C. 
recd 16 Aug 1820
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South Carolina
DISTRICT OF Richland, ss
On this twenty first day of December 1819, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of s? state [for the said district - crossed out] personally appeared Meshac Fuller aged sixty two years, resident in Columbia in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to the law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he, the said Meshac Fuller enlisted for the term of twelve months on the nineteenth day of March in the year 1776 [illegible] in the state of Georgia in the company commanded by Captain Francis Harris of the Regiment commanded by Colonel McIntosh afterward Habersham in the line of the State of Georgia on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the 19 March 1777, when he was discharged from service in the [illegible] of Savanna state of Georgia that he was in the battles of Savanna, Stono and the Siege of Charleston and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support: and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the affidavit sent. 

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Meshach Fuller
I, Richard Gautt Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said Meshac Fuller did serve in the revolutionary war, as [illegible] proceeding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. Give under my hand this twenty first day of December Anno Domini
Richard Gautt

[rectangular stamp, bottom left corner]
SEAL OF THE COURT.
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State of South Carolina Richland District}
I James S Guignard Clerk of the court do certify that the signature of Richard Gautt on the proceeding page of this papers is that of the Honorable Richard Guatt Esquire one of the Associated Judges of the State - Given under my hand and the seal of the said court at Columbia the 22 day of December Anno Domini 1819
James S. Guignard
Clerk of  [illegible] Court
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State of South Carolina
Marlborough District}
Personally appeared before me William Haman a magistrate in and for the district aforesaid.  William McDaniel of the district and state aforesaid, who after having been duly sworn, saith on oath, that sometime during the year A.D. 1798, Meshac Fuller and Bethany Lucas married at the house of his Father, George McDaniel, in the District and State aforesaid by the Rev's William Bennett, a regular preacher of the Baptist denomination.  The deponent further saith on oath, that Meshac Fuller had been married before and had several children and that the friends of Bethany Lucas were opposed to the marriage and that was the [illegible] of their being married at his Father's. The deponent further saith, on oath, that soon after they were married that saith Meshac Fuller went to [illegible] with him for a year or two and that the said Meshac Fuller and Bethany Fulle his wife lived in the [illegible] state aforesaid as man and wife for eighteen or twenty years after their marriage and they removed to Richland District in the said state and lived there as the deponent has been informed  & believe twelve or fifteen years and there Meshac Fuller died after which his widow, Bethany Fuller removed to Georgia. The deponent further saith that he always understood that the said Meshac Fuller was a soldier in the Revolutionary war & the deponent further says he was in [illegible] said Meshac Fuller drawed a pension for his service in said war. the deponent says he will be seventy four years old next April. 
Sworn to before me September 25th, 1854
Wm Hamer Magistrate
William McDaniel his x mar
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State of South Carolina
Marlborough District}
I do hereby certify that I have known William McDaniel personally from our boyhood fifty or more years ago & that he is a man well entitled to credit and I certify that I have no interest in the above claim.
Sept 25th, 1854
William Hamer Magistrate

[sideways text]
[illegible] in 1798