Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8832, John Freeman, N.C.
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Service
N.C.

Freeman, John
Frances

Number
W.8832
B.L. Wt. 31,424-160-55

Born in N. C.
Contents
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[page torn and illegible in large part]
[left side of page]

[missing page]  S.C.  
5595

who served in the Revolutionary 
was, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
42 Dollars 50
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of March 1837
and sent to 
Hon J.L. Orr
House of Reps

[torn] Roll of Pensioners under act
[torn], Page 311, Vol 2.

[right side of page]
[illegible] Feb 18 sent to [illegible]


Date of death [illegible]

193999
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8946
South Carolina
Frances Freeman
widow of John
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 42 Dollars 50
Cents per annum, To commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued 
the 11th day of March [illegible]
and sent to 
Hon J. L. Orr
House of Reps

[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2. Page 115
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[left side of page]
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Vol F. 136.3

[right side of page]
193.999. Act Mar 3/55
July 19/11

Frances. Freeman
widow of John Freeman
Priv

Capt Lewis Blutcher
Genl Butler
N.C. Mil

No 31424[illegible]

Revol War.
Rcd a pension 
at the time
SC Feby 48-5595
Will[illegible] July 7/56
Boynton

Thompson N Williams
Present
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14.133
Frances Freeman
widow of John
Act. July 7th 1838
Declaration of Francis Freeman for 
Revolutionary Pension
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State of South Carolina
Pickens District }  On this the 14th day of February 1850 personally appeared before William D.  Steel Judge of the court of ordinary for the district aforesaid Francis Freeman a resident of Pickens district and state aforesaid aged eighty 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 provisions of the acts of Congress passed March 3rd 1837 March 3rd 1843 17 June 1844 and February 2nd 1848. That she was married to John Freeman who was (as this deponent has been informed by him and others and believes) a soldier in the war of the Revolution he was a native of and resident of Wake County North Carolina in time of the Revolution and served several tours in the war under Captain Lewis Blethcer (or Lewis Blecher as it may be spelled) with whom she was well acquainted , The said John Freeman was a Second Lieutenant in the company of the said Lewis Blecher. She will not undertake to state the precise time of his service, and was does not remember them distinctly but refers for evidence on this point to the records of the State of North Carolina as to the pay while her said husband receuved for this service and which may sufficiently identify the nature of his services and their extent. But she states
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that she has been informed and believes that he was in the Battle of Eutaw at Lindleys Mill (and in a contest with the tories at Bath account he was also at the surrender of York Town.

+This deponent further states that she was married on the twenty fifth day of March when she was in her sixteenth year having just completed her fifteenth year. She can not state precisely the year, the record of the same being lost or destroyed but thinks it was in 1786. She does not remember exactly the year that she and her husband moved to South Carolina but it was more than forty years ago. She has lived in the same neighborhood in Pickens District ever since, her husband died about twenty four or twenty five years ago, she has remained a widow ever since. At her marriage there was a license obtained but  it has been lost or destroyed. She bore fifteen children to her husband her oldest a daughter was born about one year after the marriage.
This deponent Francis Freeman would further state that she has been informed that her said husband first entered the service as a volunteer but she is not able to state in what way he afterwards entered. She does not know what proportion of his time he served as a lieutenant but thinks one tour at least. She refers to documentary and other evidence accompanying this declaration and to the muster rolls of the revolution.
This deponent would further state that she is no acquainted with any person now living who served with her husband.
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in the Revolution and the great lapse of time since his death has taken pour her memory of some other particulars once distinctly known. [signed] Francis Freeman (her mark)
 Sworn to and subscribed before me In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal of office the day above written. [signed] William D. Steele  Judge of the Court of Ordinary Pickens District SC   Common seal having no seal of office

Witness David Freeman
John Frendley
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193.999
Declaration for 
Bounty Land
Frances Freeman
[illegible crossed out]
of South Carolina
Act of 1855

Thompson and Williams
Attys
Present
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State of South Carolina
District of Pickens }
Mrs Frances Freeman Declaration for Bounty Land a Revolutionary Pensioner

On this the 30th day of June AD One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty five Personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for the state and district aforesaid Mrs. Frances Freeman Aged ninety years a Resident of the District of Pickens in the State of South Carolina who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of John Freeman deceased who was a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain Lewis Blutcher and General Butler North Carolina Malitia in the Revolutionary War. That her said husband volunteered  at Wake County in the State of North Carolina for the term of nine months and continued in actuall [actual] service in said war for the term of nine months and was honorably discharged in the state of North Carolina and she further states that she is a United States Pensioner at this time and has been drawing regularly every six months from the United States a Pension and that reference  thereto can be had to the papers in the commissioner of Pensions office Washington City. She further states that she was married to the said John Freeman deceased in the county of Wake and state of North Carolina on the first day of March AD 1780 by one James Moore a magistrate a man duly authorized to solemnize marriages and that her name before her said marriage was Frances Moore, and that her said husband died at his residence in the
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District of  Pickens in the state of South Carolina on the 14th day of February 1835 or 1836 and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 8th 1855. [signed] Frances Freeman (her mark)

We Lewis Hill and J T Hill Residents of the district of Pickens in the State of South Carolina upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs Francis Freeman in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant tht she is the identical person she represents herself. [signed] Lewis Hill JT Hill

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. And I certify that she is a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at this time.  J E Hagood Notary Public
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State of South Carolina }
District of Pickens }
On this the 30th Day of June A D One Thousand eight Hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for the State and District aforesaid Lewis Hill aged Fifty three years a resident of the District of Pickens in the State of South Carolina who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is personally acquainted with Mrs Frances Freeman who is set forth in the aforesaid Declaration and that she draws regularly from the United States a pension and will draw so long as she lives and that her said Husband John Freeman Decd [deceased] did serve in the Revolutionary war and has the Reputation of having served in the Revolution war with the community in Gunnall and that her said Husband died at his Residence in the State of South Carolina and District of Pickens on the 14th Day of February 1835 or 1836 and that she is now a widow
Lewis Hill
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day
and year above written, and I certify that
he is a Respectable man and worthy of Belief
J. E. Hagood   Notary
Public
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South Carolina }
Pickens District }
I W L Keith clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions and common pleas for said State do hereby certify that J E Haygood is a Notary Public as within stated and the signature purporting to be his is genuine
Given under my hand & seal
of office this 2d day of July 1855
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court for
Pickens District 
S. C

affixed seal not legible
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May 26, 1934
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Mrs. Lucile Freeman Jones
Ruby, South Carolina

JOHN FREEMAN
W. 8832
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of six Freeman brothers who came to America from London, England, and whose names are as follow: -- Austin, Redden, James, Jephtha, John and Needham, all of whom settled near Raleigh, North Carolina, for a time before moving to South Carolina, with the exception of James who settled in Virginia; you state that John Freeman settled in Pendleton District (Pickens County), South Carolina, and that his wife drew a pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of a James Freeman as described; or of any Austin, Redden, Jephtha or Needham Freeman. The record of one John Freeman who lived in Pickens District, South Carolina, was found and is given herein as shown in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 8832, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

John Freeman was born in Wake County, North Carolina; the date of his birth and names of his parents are not stated.

While residing in Wake County, North Carolina, he volunteered, date not given, and served several tours in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain Lewis Blecher's or Blutcher's North Carolina company, was in the battles of Eutaw, Lindley's Mill, in an engagement in a swamp, and was at the surrender of Yorktown, dates of enlistment not given, but it was stated that he served seventeen months.

In 1806, the soldier moved from Wake County, North Carolina, to Pickens District (which was formerly Pendleton District), South Carolina.
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He died at his residence in Pickens District, South Carolina, January 1, 1823, about the middle of January, 1825, or February 14, 1835 or 1836 (all dates are given in the claim).

John Freeman married Frances Moore in Wake County, North Carolina, of which they were both residents, March 1, 1780, or March 25, 1786 (both dates given); they were married by one James Moore, a magistrate of Wake County, North Carolina (his relationship to Frances not shown).

Soldier's widow, Frances Freeman, was allowed pension on her application executed February 14, 1850, at which time she was aged eighty years and residing in Pickens District, South Carolina. In 1855 she gave her age as ninety years with no explanation of the discrepancy. She was still living in Pickens District, South Carolina, in 1856.

John Freeman and his wife, Frances, had fifteen children; the oldest, a daughter, was born about a year after their marriage; the only child whose name was designated was the second, a son, named Noley, Urley or Uxley (illegible) Freeman, who in 1850 was aged about sixty-four years.

In 1849, Edward Moore, brother of soldier's wife, Frances, was residing in Wake County, North Carolina, and James Rigsbee, also a resident of that county, stated that he married a sister of soldier's wife but did not give her name.

In 1850, David Freeman acted as witness in the claim of soldier's widow, Frances, for pension, but did not state his relationship to the family. In the same year, Mark Freeman, a nephew of the soldier, made affidavit in Pickens District, South Carolina, in which he stated that his father, whose name he did not give, moved to that district from Wake County, North Carolina.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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11.048
South Carolina
Frances Freeman
Widow of John Freeman
who was a pensioner under the Act of --
and who died on the --
of Wake Co. in the State of North Carolina
who was a private in the company
commanded by Captain Blecher of the
Regt commanded by Col in
the North Carolina line for 1 years &
22d days

Inscribed on the Roll of Charleston
at the rate of 42. Dollars 50
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of
March 1851 and sent to
Hon J. L. Orr
House of Reps
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. R. Weightman Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 307
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[illegible] Attorney, Revolutionary Act 1838
Frances Freeman [illegible]
SC

Hon L. P. Waldo.
Commis of Pensions
Present.
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31.424

[illegible]
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W 14133
Frances Freeman
SC
Let Geo F. Toronis 26 June 1850
act 7 July 1838

L. P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[stamp] CHARLESTON
FEB 14
SC
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State of South Carolina }
Pickens District }
Personally appears before me Larkin Hendricks the Subscribing magistrate Henry Hester and William Hester the Deponents who being first duly sworn on their oath do Say that they are brothers the first in the Sixty eighth year of his age and the other near his Sixty Seventh. they are both natives of Granville County North Carolina and emigrated with their father James Hester to Pickens District South Carolina (then called Pendleton) about the year one thousand Eight hundred (1800) They have both resided in the same neighborhood ever since. About the year one thousand Eight hundred and six John Freeman moved with his wife Francis [Frances] Freeman and several children and Settled in their immediate neighborhood. The said John Freeman and Francis [Frances] his wife came from Wake County North Carolina Some of their children were grown when they arrived. They came of man and wife and lived together as such till the winter of 1825 in which year about the middle of January John Freeman died leaving his widow the said Francis [Frances] Freeman surviving and she is now living in the same neighborhood and district a widow never having married since the death of her said husband, and has raised a large family of children, having had fifteen living. These Deponents further
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State that from the time of their first acquainted with the said John Freeman which was from his first settlement in their neighborhood about
1806) he had the reputation of having been a soldier of the Revolution. The father of these Deponents and their uncle Henry Hester were well
acquainted with each other and they have requently heard them converse to gether of their services in the Revolutionary war. John Freeman never
applied for a pension. The oldest children of said John Freeman and Francis Freeman were verry near the same ages of these deponents
his oldest a daughter of near as these [illegible] can judge from their acquaintance must be now about sixty five years old and the second a son Wiley Truman about sixty four they having known these and the other children of said John Freeman and Francis Freeman from their youth and have a correct idea of their ages by comparison with their own
Sworn to and subscribed   Henry his X mark Hester
before me July 7th 1830   William his X mark Hester
L Hendricks, M. P. D.
Witness 
G.F. Townes
Susan Freeman

I Larkin Hendricks Magistrate of Pickens district South Carolina aforesaid do certify that I am well acquainted with the Deponents the said Henry Hester and William Herter
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and know them both to be men of good Character and respectable standing in the community and entitled to full credit as honest and truthful citizens
given under my hand Febry 7th 1850
L. Hendricks M.P.D.
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State of South Carolina}
Pickens District}  personally appears before Larkin Hendricks the subscribing Magistrate Lewis Hill who being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted in the Francis Freeman widow of John Freeman that she is now living on the land of this deponent in his immediate neighborhood and has not married since the death of her husband, he knew said John Freeman who has been dead about twenty five years he had always the reputation having been a Soldier in the revolutionary war,
Sworn to and subscribed
before me February 7th 1850.
Lewis Hill
L Hendricks M.P.D.
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State of South Carolina}
Porking district}  personally appears before me Larkin Hendricks Magistrate Mark Freeman who being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with Francis Keeman widow of John Freeman, who was the uncle of this
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Deponent By Comparison with his own age this deponent states and believes that the oldest children of the said John Freeman deced and Frances Freeman on about 64 and 63 years (the age of this Deponent is 54) the father of this Deponent and John Freeman both moved from Wake County North Carolina to the district said John Freeman has been dead about 25 years. He was always believed to be a soldier of the revolution this Deponent has often heard him and others speaking of his service and character as such Francis Freeman if still living a Widow
Sworn to and subscribed before me
February 7 1830)   Mark his X mark Freeman

L Hendricks M.P. D.
witness G. J. Townes
Susan Freeman

State of South Carolina}
Pickens District}  I Wm L Keith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the district of Pickens in the State aforesaid as certify that Larkin  Hendricks is a magistrate of said district and that the signature purporting
to genuine and I further certify that the Deponents aforesaid are all men of good standing and entitled to credit as such given under my hand and seal
of office February 11th 1850
W . L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District S.C.
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Frances Freeman
Power of Atty
Revy Pension
claim
Act of 7th
June 1832.
So. Car.
M Thompson
Atty.
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State of South Carolina
Pickens District  ⎬  Know all men by these Presents, that I Francis Freeman
widow of John Freeman Deceased late of Pickens District in the State of South Carolina a Revolutionary soldier who died January 1 AD 1823 do hereby Constitute and appoint Col M Thompson Williams Esq to prosecute my claim as said widow to arrears of Pension and  increase of Pension due to my said Husband aforesaid under the act of Congress
7th June 1832 or any other act of said Congress and so as to my claim for a Pension as his widow to Examine all papers on file at the Department
of the Commissioner of Pensions and to do all lawful acts for effecting said Pension in any way whatever hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may do in the Recovery of the same 
wwtness whereof I have hereunto set my hand my seal this the 11th day of March 1836
Signed in the presence     Frances her X mark Freeman ℗
of us.
J. E. Hagood
H.M. Singleton

South Carolina}
Pickens District}  Be it know that all the 11th Day of March A D 1856 Before me a Notary Public for said State & District Personally appeared before me Frances Freeman was of John Freeman deceased above named
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and acknowledged the foregoing Power of attorney to be her act deed Deed and I certify that she is the Identical person as above named
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this the 11th day of March
1856
J.E. Hagood
Notary Public
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State of South Carolina}
Pickens District} 
Know all men by these presents that I Francis Freeman the widow of John Freeman and now a pensioner, do hereby constitute, name and appoint H. C. Spalding of the City of Washington, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead to examine the papers on file at the Pension office for the purpose of ascertaining if I am not entitled to increase of pension, & I hereby authorize my said attorney to file additional evidence and argument & to do all the necessary in the premises the same as I myself could do were I personally present at the doing thereof.
Witness my hand this 13th day of April .1853
Francis her X mark Freeman
Sworn to and subscribed this
13th day of April 1853 before me
Larking Hendricks J.P.

South Carolina}
Pickens District}
Be it Remembered that on the 13th day of April A.D. 1853 - Francis Freeman appeard Personally before me one of the subscribing magistrates and acknowledged that she did execute the forgoing Deed
of Attorney to H. C. Spalding for the use and purpose therein mentioned
Given under my hand and seal the day and year
afforesaid
Larkin Hendricks ℗ M. P.D.
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State of South Carolina}
Pickens District}   I W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Larkin Hendrick whose signature appears to the within a magistrate is genuine, he was at the date thereof a regular
Magistrate for said District duly appointed Commissioned and qualified and all due faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official act or such offices
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court at Pickens Court House
this 15th day of April A.D. 1853
W. L. Keith Clerk
of the Court of
Pickens District
So.Co.
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Frances Freeman.
widow of John.
So. Ca.
Act July 7. 1838.
Admd 1 yr & 22 days
as private. $42.50.
Commencing 4 Mar '36
except 2 years.

Cert to
Hon J .L. Orr
H of Reps.
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Free

[stamp] FE 26 [rest illegible]

Hon James L Orr N.C.
Washington
DC
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Granville Feb 21, 1857

Dr. Orr
the time for your return home being close at hand I have no intention
of occupying a letter at present with affairs of State, but have to request a
form of your last year I forwarded the pension papers in behalf of my Francis Freeman of Pickens District to obtain a widows Revolutionary pension The difficulty suggested in reply to the application by the commissioner of Pensions was an alleged insufficiency of proof as to the Marriage, and Identity of John Freeman with my Freeman husband. It
seems to me that the identity is abundantly established of the witnesses are to be believed Now in as much of you know personally some of the witnesses in the case who reside in Pickens and know the magistrate, who know them, and know me, also and I presume will be willing to certify as to our characters for witness &c &c It may in the minds of the commissioner solve a question of doubt. 
The fact of the marriage is proven positively by living witnesses, and there is a certificate
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that "no record" of it can be found in the County of N Carolina where it occurred.
It is also suggested in the letter of the Commissioner that the proof are not shown 6 months service by John Freeman is Lieut. The declaration does not claim a lieut pension exclusively, but suggests that he served part of the time as such, time unknown, the actuality of the services of John Freeman for at least 6 months as a soldier in the Revolution the N. Carolina  specie certificates do show.
Now my dear Mr. Orr will you confer great favor on a poor old widow and her family by attending to her case. As I always make a very moderate Pecuniary charge for services in procuring a pension, I feel that I am unselfish in arguing you to help the poor old woman and by your own superior sagacity [illegible] all the Commissioners [illegible].
As I am [illegible] it would be difficult to accummulate testimony especially from another state.  I will trouble you more but ask you to write as soon as you can give this some attention.
Yours truly
G.F.Townes
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Stamp:
GREENVILLE E.C.H 
JUN
14
S.C.

FREE

J.L. Edwards, Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC

Vertical:
No [illegible] in the case
of Thomas [illegible]

upside down:

W. Ames
will immediately
an Liver
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Greenville S. C. June 11, 1850 
To J.L. Edwards Esqr Comr of Pensions

Respected Sir 
I enclosed to you in April last the declaration of James Freeman of Pickens district in this state and some evidence supposed sufficient to establish her claim to a pension for the Revolutionary service of her husband having received no answer as yet & take the liberty of writing to your Department that to ascertain of any action having been in relation to said claim.  Will you be kind enough to inform me of the having been received and if so at your earliest convenience to investigate the case. 
with great respect &c 
G. F. Townes

P.S. May I also inquire whether Daniel Bailey of Granville District has ever been placed on the Pension list. his paper, he inform me were forwarded some two or three years since by the agency of Alex Hogue of York district and he has no authentic all out of the result. 
G.F. Townes
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Washington  April 30th 1853. 
Honble L. P. Waldo Comr of Pensions. 

Sir 
I herewith submit a power of Attorney from Mrs Frances Freeman the widow of John Freeman, of Pickens District, South Carolina.
Mrs Freeman applied under of 7 July 1838 and her case has been suspended.  You will please permit me to examine the papers on file in relation to her claim
Very respectfully 
your obt svrt
H. C. Spalding 
Atty
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State North Carolina ⎬ 
Wake County ⎬ I, James T. Marriott Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Wake County do hereby certify that I have searched diligently in said Office for a Marriage bond between John Freeman and Francis Moore but could not find said Bond, 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office in Raleigh, this the 28 day December 1849 
James T. Mariott
By W. J. Terrell D. C
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Pension Agency
Charleston 13 Feby 1854

Sir
I herewith forward the vouchers of Dorcas
Padgett a pensioner under act 21 July 1848.
also Frances Freeman and act 2 Feb 1848,
for authority to pay the same

I am Sir Respectfully
Your obs svt
Jno B Cochran
P Agt

L. P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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We James Rigsbee and Edward Moore both of the County of Wake and State of N. Carolina do hereby certify that we were acquainted with John Freeman and and Frances Moore familiarly they were both residents of the above named County and State we further certify that the above named John of Freeman and Frances Moore were Married to each other in the date of 1786 as well as we can recollect for I James Rigsbee was married close about the same time that John Freeman was we married sisters and I Edward Moore Recollect that I was a good stout boy at that time and John Freemans wife was my sister we were both present and saw the marriage given under our hands the 27th day of December 1849 his James Rigsbee Mary Edwards Subscribed to and sworn to before me this the 27th day of December 1849 
James his X mark Rigsbee
Edward Moore

Subscribed to and Sworn to before me this the 27th day of December 1849 and also the above named James Rigsbee and Edward Moore are both of sound mind and memory and of good general Character 
Eli Ferrell J.P.
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State of North Carolina}
Wake County}   I James T. Marriott Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid do hereby certify, that Eli Ferrell before whom the foregoing affidavits were made to an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County regularly commissioned & sworn as such and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court and subscribed my name at office in Raleigh 
this 7th January 1850
James T. Marriott, Clerk
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Raleigh N.C.
Compt Office
7th Jany 1850
I William F. Collins Comptroller of Public
Accounts in and for the State of
North Carolina do hereby certify that the
name of John Freeman appears
of Record in this office as having
had the following Specia certificate
issued in his favor for Military Service viz
One for Sixteen Pounds (pound symbol 16) see Book No 14 page 111. Also another for Eighteen
pounds (pound symbol 18) see Book No 17 page 73.
Given under my hand and Seal
the day and date written
Wm. F Collins Compt.
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The application of Mrs Freeman does not contain [illegible] the granting of a pension for the services of her husband as a Lieutenant The fact has been incidentally stated but was much as evidence of his having served as a Lieutenent cannot be made she waives all claim for a Lieutenants service and asks a pension as a private for a service of 17 months. I am well acquainted with Henry Hester William Hester Lewis Hill & Mark Freeman, They are all first rate Citizens and men of requisitioned probity veracity
The marriage is I think fully proved by James Rigbee & Edmund Moore & by general reputation in South Carolina, and this service is proven by the certificate of the Comptroller genls Office N.C. and the identity universal reputation 
James Orr
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[stamp] numbered 1-12 in a radius, RECEIVED
MAY 16 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV
READER 15
VETS. ADM.

Ruby, S.C.
May 11, 1934

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:
Will you please send me a copy of all the information you have concerning the Freeman family especially their Revolutionary War services?

There were six of the Freeman brothers who came to America from near London, England. Their names were as follows; Austin, Redden, James, Jephtha, John, and Needham.

James settled in Virginia; Needham and John settled in Pendleton District, (Pickens County) S. C; one settled permanently in North Carolina, one in the eastern part of South Carolina; and one wnet [went] to Georgia. All but James settled near Raleigh, North Carolina for a time before immigrating to South Carolina.

John Freeman served in the Revolutionary War. His wife drew a pension as long as she lived. I think that my great great grandfather Needham Freeman served in the same war.

It is probable that all six brothers fought in the Revolution as they were in America before the war.

I would appreciate your consulting the files and getting all the data for me. I wish to join the Doughters [Daughters] of the American Revolution.

Yours Truly
Mrs. Lucile Freeman Jones [signature]
Mrs. Lucile Freeman Jones
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14.133.
March 1, 1850
Ded.
Frances Freeman
wid John.
July 1, 1838.
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
[stamped GREENVILLE S.C. FEB 2-]
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Greenville C. H. SC Feb 22 1850

Respected Sir
I enclose to you Declaration of Francis [Frances] Freeman [page torn] Pension, and trust the facts in [page torn]
are sufficiently establ [page torn]
marriage and its date years pr.[page torn]
and the identity of Francis [Frances][page torn]
as the widow of John Freeman [page torn]
identity of the latter of the John [page torn]
of North Carolina, who was recogni[page torn]
the authorities of that State of a Rev[page torn]
Soldier an fully established by the written enclosed. not having access at this place to the records and acts of the North Carolina
Legislature I am of course obliged to request your reference to the same to determine the length of John Freemans Service, and actual capacity in which he served. 
Trusting that this application of an aged and destitute and [illegible]  widow may be successful
I subscribe myself
I have the honor to subscribe
myself most respectfully, HH
G. F Townes

J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Page 45

1934, May 26 - Hist to Mrs Lucille Freeman Jones- MLB
Revolution, North Carolina
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8832
Frances Freeman
Wid
John Freeman
Privt Rev. War
Act: Feby 2d 1848.
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 237
(Arrangement of 1870.)