Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 7385, for Orman Morgan, North Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

* 
Morgan, Orman

NUMBER
R 7385

CONTENTS
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No 38,715.
Orman Morgan decd
Georgia
Rejected
[finger pointing symbol] He died in 1829. His
wife died in 1828
Querry & Walker Mch 17 1852
7385
Act June 7 1832
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Act of July 14, 1862, and March 9, 1873 [lined out]
7,385
P.O.
Orman Morgan
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted:  ____  , 18  .
Discharged: ____, 18  .
Application filed: ____, 18  .
Alleges: ____
Re-enlisted: ____
Attorney: ____
P. O. ____

____ Recognized.
____ Cert. of Dis.
Contract
Searched for ____, 18
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Stock Hill Ga.
Mar 1st 1854,

L.P. Waldo Esqr
Dear Sir
Enclosed You
will receive the claim of Wiley D Morgan by
his Declaration, as you will see; please examine
his claim and inform us of the result as soon
as practicable
We Remain with due respect,
Your Obedient Servants
Terry & Walker,

L P. Waldo Esq
Washington City
D.C.
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State of Georgia
County of Whitfield ⎬ 
On this 18th day of Febuary
A.D. one thousand Eight Hundred and fifty
four, Before me the undersigned one of the
Justices of the Inferior Court in and for the
County and State aforesaid, Personally appeared Wily D Morgan aged 60 years, a Resident of the County of Whitfield in the State of Georgia. Who being cautioned and then Sworn in due form of law, declares on oath that he is the Son and Heir of Orman Morgan who was a Revolutionary Soldier of the State of North Carolina and who is now dead. that he died on or about the 12th day of November A.D. 1829. And that his Mother named Polly Morgan died on or about the
30th day of April A.D. 1828 And that they were
Married in the State of North Carolina on
or about the 1st day of September A.D. 1779,
Deponent further states that he has heard his
Father Say that he Served Six years in Said War
as a Continental Soldier and continued in actual Service until the close of the Revolutionary War.
and deponent further declared that he has seen his Fathers certificate of discharge, but that the Same was destroyed by fire and that he never Received any Pension money nor made any previous application therefore
Wily D. Morgan

Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I hereby certify
that I am Personally acquainted with Wily D.
Morgan above named and that he is a man
of truth and Good Varacity [veracity] and that I
am disinterested in the Result of this application
E. H. Edwards J I C
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State of Georgia }
County of Whitfield }

Know all men by these presents that I Wily D. Morgan of the county and State aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint fully empower and authorise [authorize] irrevocably
William R Query and Henry H Walker of Stock
Hill Georgia my true and lawful Attorneys
for me and in my name and Stead to examine
into to prosecute demand ask and Receive
from the Goverment [Government] Officers of the United States, all my Rights in any manner of claim for Pension money or Bounty Land that may be due me as Son and Heir of Orman Morgan a Revolutionary Soldier of the State of North Carolina and who died leaving the Same undrawn, as in Right of Custom law or Equity he is or may be entitled
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
Set my name and Seal the 18th day of February in the Year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and fifty four
Wiley D. Morgan      L S 

Acknowledged and subscribed }
before me a Judge of the }
Inferior Court for the County }
of Whitfield and State of Georgia }
the 18th day February AD 1854  }
E. H. Edwards J I C
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State of Georgia }
Whitfield County }  Personally appeared before
me Edward H Edwards one of the Justices of
the Inferior Court within and for the County
and State aforesaid Jesse C Hooper and
Elizabeth Edwards Residents of the County of Whitfield in the State of Georgia who first being cautioned and then Sworn in due form of Law deposeth and Saith each for him & Herself that they were Personally & well acquainted with Orman Morgan named in the foregoing Declaration of Wily D Morgan, and that Said Orman Morgan was allways [always] considered and, was Generally Beleived [believed] by the Community to be a
Revolutionary Soldier of the State of North Carolina and that Wily D. Morgan above named was allways [always] treated as, and is by the witnesses believed to the Son & Heir of said Revolutionary Soldier and that they never heard any thing to the contrary
Jesse C. Hooper
Elizabeth her x mark Edwards
Sworn to and Subscribed
before me on this 18th day of Febuary [February] A.D. 1854 and I hereby certify
that Jesse C Hooper and Elizabeth Edwards
who makes this Declaration
are credit able and disinterested
Witnesses Given under my hand
& Seal.
E. H. Edwards  J.I.C.  Seal
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State of Georgia }
County of Whitfield }
I, John W. Anderson, Clerk
of the Superior Court within and for the County of and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the Hon. Edward H. Edwards Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration Power of Attorney and Certificate were made is and was at the time of the Signing thereof an acting Justice of the Inferior Court within and for the County of Whitfield and State of Georgia duly Commissioned and Sworn and his [text covered over] thereto are Genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my name and affixed my Official Seal of Office at
Dalton on the 24th day of February A.D. 1854
Jno. W. Anderson - C.S.C.

[text covered over] Georgia }
Whitfield County }  It is hereby certified that Satisfactory proof has been exhibited before Edward H. Edwards the undersigned
one of the Justices of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid by the affidavits of Jesse C Hooper and Elizabeth
Edwards of the above named County and State being Personally known to me and who are entitled to credit that Orman Morgan above
named was a Revolutionary Soldier and that said Wiley D. Morgan is the Son and Heir to the best of their knowledge and belief
And, I hereby Certify that I was Personally
acquainted with Orman Morgan before named, for a number of years and that he was always by the Community considered to a Revolutionary Soldier and I veryly [verily]
Beleive [believe] he was. And I further certify that Wily D. Morgan the applicant in this case is from bodily infirmity not able to appear in open Court.
Given under my hand and Seal on
this the 24th day of February A.D. 1854
E. H. Edwards J I C