Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 63, Joshua Agee, Va.
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Service
VA
Agee, Joshua
Number
R.63
Contents
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State of Georgia
Lincoln County
On this 23rd day of October 1832 personally appeared in Open Court, being the Superior Court of said County & State before Miller N. Crawford presiding Judge, Joshua Agee, aged seventy five years in January last according to the Register of his father, which is lost or destroyed, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832. That he Enlise'd the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated. Sometime in the year 1776 [written above] Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six as well as defonant can recollect, there was on the frontiers of Virginia, some considerable difficulties produced by the Indians, who were excited by a Colonel Guess at their head. Defonant then living in Buckingham in Virginia, enlisted under Lieutenant Edmund Peters, who was attached to Capt John Clemmons Company in Maj Glenn's Battalion and Colonel Morgan's Regiment who was a lawyer & said to be from Pitsylvania County. The troops rendezvoused soon after at Long Island on Holstein River. A Colonel Lewis and Colonel Christie who were in advance of Morgan's Regiment and had left the Long Islands leaving word for Morgan's Regiment to continue at that place building a fort + e. untile the return of their troops or reinforcement should be called for. They did proceed & built the fort and continued at that station untile the return of Colonels Lewis and Christie who had brought about peace with the Indians and they had surrender'd Colonel Guess as a prisoner to them and was brought into the fort by them. And the troops marched back only
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such as were required to guard at the Fort. Deponant having enlisted during the War with the Indians was discharged, as was the Regiment principally, he having served in that campaign [illegible] over five months, he received no other pay than about twenty shillings bounty.

Some time in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight in the same County, as well as deponant can now recollect of dates, he again enlisted for the term of one year as a guard to proceed to the Barrack at Charlotteville in Albemarle County Virginia, to guard the prisoners of Burgoyne's Army, he enlisted in Capt Thomas's Company, Lieutenant Churchwell Blakely being the under officer & marched immediately to the Barracks before stated. And on arriving there was placed under command of Colonel Taylor, where deponant remained untile the numbers of prisoners were so diminished by their [illegible] with the cause of the Americans, that Col Taylor proposed to lessen the guard by suffering part of the soldiers to return & done so. deponant was one that was discharged at that time having served seven months, [illegible] over in that tour.

Soon after which deponant removed to Henry County Va when a draft being made on the militia of that County for three month, men he deponant was drafted, and attached to Capt John Hanby's Company, Lieu^t Tate the Under Officer and attached to Maj Ward's Battalion, who was from Amherst County, and in his command marched through Salsbury & Charlotte North Carolina to Cambridge So Carolina, where they united with General Greene's Army, who at the time was besieging the Fort at the place, which was in possession of the British
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the Army remained there fifteen days, after the arrival of Maj. Rose and was freed to retreat. Without a surrender, a new [illegible] under Lord Rawdon having arrived in the neighborhood, the Americans moveing across Broad River, the British forces soon after took up the line of March toward Columbia, Genl Green following after annoying, & watching the movements of the British and at Friday's ferry. Captured fifty troup of North and twenty five bagage waggon. [illegible] deponant with the Virginia Militia continuing with General Greene in his march, untile the expiration of the term of their service they were permitted to return home without being marched back, with instructions they would be mustered out of service at home which was not done.

Deponant further swears that all he ever received for his service was the bounty when enlisted what the Troups were to receive he is not able to state it not being the Consideration at the time, he remained several years in Virginia after the Revolution and removed to Georgia, and he resided in Various counties in the state for thirty odd years, he then resided in Lincoln County.

Deponant is not able to prove his services by documentary testimony, nor is he able to prove the same by any living witness. He will be enabled by the Revᵈ John H. Walker, Wm C. Stokes and John McKinne citizens of Lincoln County to prove his character, as well as a citizen as a Revolutionary Soldier + the Reasonableness of his claim that by name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state whatever and hereby relinquishes all but the present.

         his
John  X Agee
         mark

Sworn to in open Court
this 23rd October 1832
Peter Lamar Clk LSG
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Georgia
Lincoln County

Personally appeared in Open Court the Superior Court of said County and state the Rev. John H. Walker, William C. Stokes, and John McKinne. All citizens of Lincoln County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith as follows. the Rev. John H Walker that he has been acquainted with Joshua Agee the applicant who has sworn to + transcribed the pregoing declaration about fifteen years, that he is himself a Revolutionary soldier + in Various Conversations with said Agee he verily believed that he served as a revolutionary soldier.

The said William C Stokes that he has been acquainted with said Joshua Agee more than twenty years. And John McKinne that he has been acquainted with said Agee ten~ years. All of said deponants believe him of the age as set forth and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn to + subscribed in Open Court 23rd October 1832

Peter Lamar Clk LS
John H. Walker
WC Stokes
John McKinne 

And this said court does hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of this matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier - and served as he states - and the Court further certifies that it appears to him that John H Walker who has signed  the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in said County of Lincoln - and that William C Stokes, and John McKinney of Sevier(?), who have also signed the same are residents of said County of Lincoln, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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Georgia 
Wilkes County

Personally appeared before me Gideon Cooper a magistrate for said County and State. Joshua Agee, who, being by me duly sworn, deposeth and saith in addition to his former declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the seventh of June 1832 and amendatory to said declaration deposeth and swears that he was born in the County of Buckingham in the State of Virginia, on the fourth day of January seventeen hundred and fifty seven as well as he remembers. From his fathers family ? of ups which is lost or destroyed as he before recited, that he has no family record of his own age.

That he had in addition to his proofs before produced and transported to the war department been enabled to procure in testimony of Colo Thomas Murray and Mr. James Burditt: who sett forth fully the claims of deponant to the benefit of the Pension Act as well as the standing of deponant for truth and veracity, who write in the statements of the  Rev. John H. Walker, William C Stokes + John McKinne as to standing and veracity.
              his
Joshua   X  Agee
             mark

Sworn to + subscribed before me this 11th day of May 1835

Gideon Cooper J.P.



State of Georgia Wilkes County

I John H Dyson Clerk of the Superior Court of Said County + State do hereby certify that Gideon Cooper Esquire whose name app[?] to the foregoing affidavits is a magistrate for said county + state as here stated, duly commissioned + qualified as such and that the signature is his own [illegible] hand writing.

I further certify that Joshua Agee resides now in this county, is reputed a man of truth and honesty. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand + seal of office this 12th day of May 1835~

John H. Dyson Clk SCNCGeo
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Georgia
Lincoln County

Before me Elijah Frazer a magistrate in + for said County personally appeared. Peter Lamar who being by me duly sworn deposeth + saith that, he was acting as clerk of the superior Court of said County and State on the application of Joshua Agee for the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832, that he deponant Certified Subscribed and attached the Seal of office as clerk of said Court to the proceeding of said applicant. Deponant further swears that the [illegible] of the seal of Office of Said court is L.S.C. (Standing for Lincoln Superior Court) that said proceedings are all attached and accompany the affidavit.

Peter Lamar

Sworn to before me this 11th day of May 1835
Elijah Frazer J.P.

State of Georgia
Lincoln County

I Eliel Lockhart, Clerk of the Superior Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Edmund Lyon Esquire before whom Colo Thomas Murray made the affidavit hereto attached and who certified as to the credibility of said Thomas Murray was at the time of attesting & certifying the same an acting magistrate for the said County of Lincoln & State of Georgia duly Commissioned & Qualified as Such.
I do further Certify that Elijah Frazer Esquire before whom Peter Lamar Subscribed & attested to the foregoing affidavit was also at the time of administering the oath & attesting the Same a Magistrate of the Same County & State also duly Commissioned & qualified as Such.  I do further Certify that the Signatures of the said Edmund Lyon & Elijah Frazer Esquire as hereto annexed as before stated are their proper handwriting[?]
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my sd Hand and affixed the Seal of Office of Said Court this 1[?] day of May 1833
Eliel Lockhart, Clk
                         L.S.C.
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for many years has been ? as a Miller his officers and brother soldiers. Several have lived in Georgia that he has related who served with him, and one who had his thumb shot off at Cambridge, an ? Wade; but are all dead that he had ? that ? with who resided in this section of Country.

Given under my hand this 28th day of October 1835
Peter Lamar

Georgia 
Lincoln County

I Elijah Frazer before whom Joshua Agee, the applicant for a pension appears + made the pregoing affidavit do hereby certify that the said Joshua Agee is a very ? man, ? and honorable and so considered by all who knew him or think of him and it is individually believed a soldier of the Revolution to which I fully agree myself and the writer of the pregoing. Justify Mr in saying that those who have certified for him an ? of the full respectability

Sworn under my hand + private seal 28 Oct 1835 Elijah Frazer J.P.
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State of Georgia
Lincoln County

Personally came before me Elijah Frazer a Justice of the Peace in + for the County + State aforesaid Joshua Agee, who being by me duly sworn according to law diposeth & saith in addition to his former declarations made + forwarded to the war department and explanatory thereto, and in confirmation of the same, that he did serve, as set-out in his said declaration four months in the tour against the Indians under Col. Morgan, Cap. Clemons Company for which services he rec'd payment in Continental money for his bounty and he believes for the services that tour. The second tour was an Enlistment for twelve months, and served seven months this service was performed entirely in guarding the prisoners of Burgoyne, that Colonel Taylor commanded. That detachment at the time: he was discharged by Col. John Cavel with many others there being more than was required, as a guard. Colo Taylor was absent at the time, from the command; we were [illegible] purposely for the guard. The service of tour was proven[?], yet deponent  never received any pay.  And if there was ever pay given to those troops deponant has no knowledge of the fact. and he declares that he never received any pay himself
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The last campaign deponant served in Hurry County Virginia, he thinks in 1781 in Capt J Hamby’s Company, and marched under Major R and  joined General Greene at Cambridge in So Carolina. this was for a three months tour which he served faithfully and was discharged by his officers at home neither of his discharges he has.  They are lost nor did deponant ever receive a farthing for the tour of duty he further swears he is old very infirm, unable to support kindred & family by his own labour, that he has served his Country faithfully whilst it was his duty had the Law not passed to ? the soldiers of the Revolution he should never have thought it was his duty to ask for assistance for such services, as he was proud that he could boast that he was one of the defenders of his country’s rights and in a small way help to achieve her Independence, of Virginia paid, his troops that served in the Capacity he served it is more than deponant ever received as he
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May not himself completed that he is not now, nor ever was on any pension Roll had no Claim at all nor has he any but for the service aforesaid, if others receive he believes it his right and [?] wishes all other claims for service, except this he now applies for.
Joshua Agee
Service Co [?]
28 October 1835
Elijah Frazer J.P.
I Peter Lamar the writer of the Unread application of Mr Joshua Agee a resident of Lincoln County certify that his situation is one truly to be pitied he is extremely poor very infirm, and utterly dependant on his neighbors for assistance. to reach my residence I verely believe he was a soldier of the Revolution. his memory is much impaired, yet his standing for veracity is good. 
Those who have [?] for him are men of the first standing in the Country. That his situation is such that he has had no correspondence for many years as he relates to his math by old and early associates the most of his true
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for may years has been spent as a piller his officers and brother soldiers [?] have lived in Georgia that he has related. Who served with him, and one who had his thumb shot off at Cambridge an old Mr Wade but all are dead that he had remembered that served with who resided in that section of County.
Given under my hand the 28th day of October 1835
Peter Lamar
Georgia Lincoln County
I Elijah Frazer before whom Joshua Agee the applicant for a pension appeared & made the foregoing applicant do hereby certify that the said Joshua Agee is a very infirm man. Stretly honest and honorable and is considered by all who know him or speak of him and it is un[?] believed a soldier of the Revolution in which I full agree myself and the writer of the preparing. Justifys me in saying that those who have [?] for him are keen to the [?]
From under my hand & [?]
Seal 28 Oct 1835 Elijah Frazer G. O.
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State of Georgia] Be it known, That
Lincoln County] On this 20th day
of October 1855, personally
appeared before the undersigned a Justice of
the [blank space] within and for the county and
State aforesaid Mary [Howard (crossed out)] Dawny  a  resident of Said
County who being Sworn in due form of law
on her oath Saith that     she is in   the Sixthieth
year of her age. That deponent Clary Crim and
Nancy Wynn are the only living children of
joshua Agee , late of Wilkes County Georgia 
 [illegible] who
was the identical person who was a Soldier in
the Ameerican Revolution against Great Britain
that the said Joshua Agee went into service from
the State of Virginia at the commencement of the of the ameri-
can Revolution say in 1776  and served in the 
Virginia or Continental line  until the close
of the war and that the said Joshua Agee was
honorably discharged after said service at
York Town and returned to near Richmond
Va. the place of his enrollment and resided at
the same until his removal to the State of Ga.
which was about the year 1797. That the said
Joshua Agee died in Wilkes County Georgia in
December 1837, leaving the children as above
named, his wife having died in 1835 that
the discharge of said Joshua Agee is lost or mislaid
so that deponent does not know at this time
where that  same is, that the said ages was Mar
ried previous to his going  into Service per
haps in 1775. That apart of said Service was
performed in Virginia apart in NC and apart
in S.C. that the said Joshua Agee was in
the Battle of the Cowpens. That the Said Agee
was wounded at the Battle of Ninety-Six
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that deponent does not know what officers
the said Joshua Ann served under unless he
serve under Col Tharp or Col Swin that
deponent believes the said Agee served with
or under, One, William or Thos Murray
who was pensioned as deponent believes from
Lincoln County Georgia and died in said Co
several years, since which last fact will appear
by reference to the pension papers of the said
Murray on file at the department at Washington City DC. that the said Agee made out his pension claim for his Revolutionary services which was forwarded from Lincoln County Georgia about the year 1836, which declaration deponent presumes is now on file at the department at Washington D.C. and which declaration may be refered to as corroborating with the above statements that deponent knows the above facts from the traditional evidence & C. of her deceased Father that deponent makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Pension laws now of force and pass by the Congress of the United States for the officers & Soldiers of the American Revolution against Great Britain, their widows, or living children, that said Joshua Agee, Serv'd as a drafted or numbered man and as a private Soldier
Mary Howard       her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
day of October 1855. And I do here by certify that Mary Howard the person named in the above declaration is at this time a resident of Lincoln County in the State of Georgia, and that she
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Joshua Agee
Ga
Reg 1832 for letter 
Act 7 June 1832

16938
Joshua Agee
Ga
Thomas Lumpkin Oct 22/57
for letters-- see Reg-1832
act 7th June 1832
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July 30, 1835
I have read the
amended declaration
of Joshua Agee, and
have placed the papers on
file. Mr. Agee claims for
15 months service seven
months of which under an
enlistment in Va in the
year 1778 - He also informs
the Dept that he never rec'd
any pay except the bounty - for
the service and that he still
continued to serve in Va. some
years after the war - As no
rolls in the office bear his
name, and as no proof
whatever is offered to sustain
it, the Department will require
some full and more satisfactory 
reasons of his leaving the Army
before his time expired, and
also the reasons way he did
not, like all the Va. [cont.]
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of Congress at the same time, and it is necessary to limit calls
to the Member from the claimant's district.
Trusting this will meet your approval, I am,
Your obedient servant,

[blank] Commissioner.

[sideways written note]
and State [illegible] receive his pay
To Peter Lamar
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Nov. 7, 1835
Sir
The additional
affidavit of Joshua Agee
has been examined
and placed on our
files. It is not sufficient
to remove the
objections in his case
The claim cannot be
admitted without some
other proof than his
own declaration
[illegible]
Peter Lamar
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Joshua Agee
application for pension
under the act of Congress
of 7 June 1832
. 16938
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Georgia Lincoln County
Wm H Crawford I Go ZC
IPeter  Lamar Clerk of Superior Court
of said county hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Agee for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto  set my
hand and seal of office this 23 day of Oct 1842
Peter Lamar clk
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Agee
Joshua Agee
Georgia
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Noo 7
Lincolnton Ga
Act 30th
Honble
J l Edwards
Edward I
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
City of Washington
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State of Georgia
Lincoln County
I Eliel Lockhart Clerk of the Superior Court of said County & State do hereby Certify that Elijah Frazer Esquire whose name appears to the foregoing certificate and affidavit made
by Joshua Agee the applicant for a pension is an acting Justice of the peace in said County & State duly commissioned and sealed as such, and was at the time of attesting the same, the signature purporting to be his is genuine and entitled to full faith & credit
In witness whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of office of said Court this 29 day
of October 5 1835
Eliel Lockhart Clk
L. S.C
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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Peter Lamar Esq
Lincolnton
Georgia
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War Department
Pension Office
July 5th 1855.

Sir,

I have received the amended declaration of Joshua Agee, and have placed the papers on file. Mr Agee claims for fifteen months
service, seven months of which, under an enlistment in Virginia in 1778. He also informs the Department that he never received any pay except the County, for this service, and that he continued to reside in Virginia some years after the close of the war.

As no rolls in this Office bear his name, and as no proof whatever is offered to sustain it, the Department will require some further and more satisfactory reasons for his leaving the army before his time expired, and also the reason why he did not, like all the
Virginia Continental and State troops, receive his pay.

I am very Respectfully
[illegible]
J L Edwards

Peter Laman Esq.
Lincolnton
Ga
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Act of June 7 1832.

Claim of Joshua Agee.
(Ga.)

Power of Atty.
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Power of Attorney

Know all men by these presents, that I Joshua Agee of the County of Columbia in the State of Georgia do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, DC my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Joshua Agee for any
amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832 or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize him said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.

Witness my hand and seal this 22nd day of January 1853.

In presence of
Lucius J Gartrell
Wm W Hopkins

Joshua Agee x [his mark]

STATE OF Georgia Wilkes COUNTY-ss.
On this 22nd day of January 1853, before me a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Joshua Agee of the County of Columbia in said State and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.

Lewis S Brown [illegible]

STATE of Georgia
Wilkes COUNTY. }ss.

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On this 22nd day of January 1853, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Joshua Agee a resident of said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical Joshua Age who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that he is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.

Joshua Agee x [his mark]

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.

Lewis S. Brown J.C.C
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STATE of Georgia
COUNTY OF Wilkes
I Royland Beasley Clerk of Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Lewis Brown Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and
acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the [strike]Peace[/strike] Inferior Court, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official are entitled to full faith and credit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed
my name and affixed my official seal this 3rd day of February1853.
Royland Beasley Clk I.C.
[stamped seal]
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{Georgia
Lincoln County}

Personally came before me Edmund Lyon a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Col. Thomas Murray who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Joshua Agee formerly of Lincoln now of Wilkes County and who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832, for forty years & more that the said deponant was a soldier himself in the revolutionary War and in 1776. Had marched
in a Colonel Lewis Regiment from the Long Island of Holston against the Indians on the Frontiers of Virginia, that in frequent conversations with the said Joshua Agee & deponant the deponant is
satisfyed and believes that the said Joshua
was attached to a Colonel Morgans Regiment at
he has stated as there was such a Regiment
which remained at Holstein, and he believes
that the said Joshua did serve as set forth
or he could not have related the circumstances
of that campaign unless he had been present.

Deponant further swears that the said Joshua
in those conversations has fully satisfyed him
deponant that he was also at the siege of Ninety six in South Carolina, as he has set forth
he has heard so often relate the circumstances
of that Campaign, which accorded to will with
the true history of the Campaign & siege that
he deponant does verily believe he was in
the army as he has set forth. Deponant
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further swears that the said Joshua Agee has uniformly supported the character of an
Honest man and a man of veracity.

Sworn to before me
the 4th October 1834      - Thos. Murray
Edmund Lyon J.B.

State of Georgia
Lincoln County

I Edmund Lyon the Justice of the Peace above stated before whom the said Col. Thomas Murray, made said declaration do hereby certify that the said Col T. Murray who has resided for many years in the County aforsaid & the adjoining County Columbia, & that he has uniformly supported the character of an
upright high minded Honorable Man, and a
man of veracity and dutie does. and that the
said Col. Murray is a Revolutionary Soldier &
pension'd as such

Given under my hand the [illegible] day of October 1834

Edmund Lyon J.P.
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State of Georgia
Wilkes County

Personally came before me Gideon
Cooper a Justice of the Peace in and for
the County of Wilkes and State of Georgia
James Burditt also a resident of the County and State aforesaid, who being by me duly sworn deposeth and and saithe that he has been well acquainted with Joshua Agee (whois an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832. (ever seventeed hundred and Eighty, that he deponant at that time lived with his father in the County of Bedford and State of Virginia, that he verily believes that the said Joshua Agee is of the age as set forth in his declaration, and which is now before me
deponant further swears that he has good reasons to believe and does verily believe the said Joshua Agee served his Country in the several Tours as he has set forth; and he has always borne the character of a Revolutionary soldier as well in the neighborhood where he lived at deponant first acquaintance with him in Virginia, and where a disafected man or a duty to his Country could not have lived at that day unless it had, known[sp], nor could a soldier had he acted cowardly or disgracefully in his service of his Country, kept the same a secret; but on the contrary the said Joshua a supported the character of a faithful soldier and deponant further swears that he well remembers the return of the said Joshua Agee from his tour of duty he had last set out in his declarations, the deponant at the time was young; the neighbors and friends
to the several soldiers who went in the Four amongst which the said Joshua Age was engaged on their return had much to say and considerable Repreing on their returns, Deponent further swears that he has removed to the State of Georgia with his father as well as he remembers in the year 1784. That some time in the year 1797 deponant carried from the State of Georgia to the State of Virginia a waggon load of Ginned Cotton, and removes Joshua Agree and
family to the County of Wilkes on his return from the County of Bedford and State of Virginia. That on their
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way in passing Canibross in South Carolina. Calls originally Ninety Six. The said Joshua Agee invited deponent with others who went with him. to see the ground that the Americans occupies as well as the British and the Unions position they took at the siege of ninety six in which campaign the said Joshua had take apart and deponant well remembers. The statements made on the occasion and one in particular that he had his eyes filled with dirt, with a ball and when making his statements the said Joshua shed tears. The circumstances all together convinced the deponant that he was an actor in that Campaign as he has set forth.
Deponant further sweard that the said Joshua Agee has borne the character uniformly & now does of an honest man, and a man of veracity that he resided in the County of Wilkes.
Sworn to before me this 11th day of May 1835
James Burdett
Gideon Cooper J.P.
I Gideon Cooer the magistrate above named do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with James Burdett who appeared before me and deposed to the foregoing declaration and who subscribes his name thereto, from my earliest recollection that he has uniformly borne and sustained the character of a man of truth and veracity and still supports that character that we reside in the same settlement and have done so from my infancy. I have also known the applicant Joshua Agee and say the same of him. That he has supported the character of an honest man and a man of truth and from my earliest recollection he was reputed & I believe a Revolutionary soldier in the settlement when 
he resided. 
Given union my law this 11th day of May 1835
Gideon Cooper J.P.
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Lincolnton Geo
May 22nd

Honble. A. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
May Def. [illegible]
Mashur[sp} City
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Lincolnton 22 May 1835
Honbl A Edwards
Dear Sir
You will receive herein the received application of Joshua Agee for a Pension, and trust he has been enable to comply with the requisitions, and correct the errors omissions.

[illegible name] may not be amiss to State the long delay of finding his old official  ty to certify for him he agrees is the Poorest old man in the Country has been in hard drinker, and supported by keeping a mule has nothing 
to file & dependant entirely by Sundry word and it his bare a tedious Court: yet he has
been inabled by respectable testimony to support his claim with corresponding circumstances that Carrie [carry] force with the explanation
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To Wit please direct to this office either to Mr Agee or to my whilst I [illegible receive]
Yr obd servant
Peter Lamar

Honble {Honorable] A.L. Ederas
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City
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Joshua Agee
Ga-das 1832
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Washington
Oct 6th 57

Herewith please find Supp [illegible] 
of Mary Howard child of Joshua Agee,  und Gen, Act 1832 and for the Arrcay of pension her father 

Reply
Th Lumpkin
Geo C Whiting
Comm