Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1825-200, Alexander Garden, Continental (S.C.)
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SERVICE Continental (SC)
Garden, Alexander
NUMBER BL.Wt.1825-200
CONTENTS
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Copy Will
South Carolina May 6. 1828
In the name of God, Amen, I Alexander Garden, formerly of True Blue, but now of Charleston, being
of sound & disposing mind & memory, make & declare this be my last Will & testament, hereby revoking all former or other wills by me made
Imprimis I order & direct all my just & lawful debts to be paid
Item I give & bequeath to my adopted son Alester Garden, son of my friend Wilmot S. Gibbes & to his heirs, Executors, administrators & assigns for ever, all my Estate real & personal of every kind & nature whatsoever. But if the said Alester Garden should depart this life before me or before attaining the age of twenty one years or day of marriage, then I give devise & bequeath all my estate real & personal of every kind whatsoever to my friend Wilmot S. Gibbes his heirs, Executors administrators & assigns forever.
Item I do hereby authorise & empower my Executors or such as 
qualify to endorse any note or notes whereon I am now Endorser in any of the Banks in Charleston, & to renew such endorsements on renewal notes as often as the drawer or drawers of the said notes may require, until the said debts are paid off I I do hereby direct that my estate shall be & continue liable to the said Bank or
Banks, for such successive renewals till the debts are paid in as full & ample a manner as if I had personally in my time endorsed the said note or notes.
Item. I request & direct Alester Garden or Wilmot S. Gibbs as the case may be, to require little or no service from my slaves Clarinda & Charlotte, but to let them pass their lives in comfort & without requiring any wages or services from them, & my Executors hereby expressly directed not to require wages or service from either of them.
Item, I direct my Executors at their discretion to apply such
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part of the income of my Estate as they may deem proper to the education, maintenance & support of the said Alester Garden.
Lastly I nominate, appoint & constitute my friends Wilmot S. Gibbes & H. A. Desaussure Executors to this my last will & testament,
s/ Alexander Garden
Signed, sealed & declared to be his
last will & testament by Alexr Garden
in our presence & at his request have
hereunto subscribed our names in testimony of the execution thereof.
s/ Jacob Ford
Wm P. Lowndes
Thos Dotterer

State of South Carolina
Charleston District
In the Court of Ordinary
I James D Mitchell Ordinary for Charleston District in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true and faithful copy of the last Will and Testament of Alexander Garden late of Charleston
deceased. the original whereof is deposited in this office duly proved according to law, and made as Record in this Court by act of assembly in such case made and
provided - That HA. Desaussure duly qualified as Executor under the said will & assumed the burthen of
the administration on the fourth day of March 1829. of the assetts of the Estate, & that the other Executor named in the said will never qualified thereon - And I do further certify that I am the sole Judge of this Court in this District & that this attestation is
in due form of law -
Witness my hand & Seal of the said
Court this thirteenth day of March in
the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred & thirty two & in the fifty Sixth year of the Sovereignty & Independence of America
s/ James D. Mitchell
Ordinary
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Jan. 30/94 Mail Hist. to Geo. A Rose
14 E. 23" St. New York, NY c

Alexander Garden No 1825

By Act of Congress approved on
23d May 1828, Lieut Alexander
Garden was allowed five years
full pay as Commutation for his
half pay for life as a Lieutenant
in the Revolutionary War
the provisions of the act of 15th May
1828. Was extended to the aforesaid
Lieut Alexander Garden
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s/ J Hamilton Jr

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
BY HIS EXCELLANCY
James Hamilton Junior
GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN AND OVER THE STATE
AFORESAID.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
Know Ye. That James D. Mitchell Esq
whose seal and signature appears to the annexed instrument of writing is the Lawful Ordinary for the District
of Charleston and sole Judge of the Court of Ordinary of the said District & hath the exclusive jurisdiction
of the Probate of Wills & Testaments

THEREFORD, all due Faith, Credit and Authority is and ought to be had and given to his proceedings and certificates as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to
be affixed the Seal of the State, in the
City of Charleston the Fourteenth day
of March in the year of the Lord one thousand eight hundred and Thirty two and in the Fifty Sixth year of the 
Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
J Hammond
SECRETARY OF STATE
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BOUNTY LAND
FOR REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES -- CLAIM OF HEIRS.(NO. 1. )

STATE Of South Carolina
Charleston District
I, H.A. DeSaussure Guardian of Alester Garden sole devisee & representative of Major Alexander Garden late of the City & District
of Charleston and State of South Carolina but now deceased, do upon oath, testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, the said Alexander Garden was aid de camp to Genl [Nathanael] Greene & was a Lieutenant in [Colonel Henry] Lee's Legion Regiment of _ belonging to the Virginia line, on continental establishment, during the Revolutionary War. I do further testify and declare, that I have never received a warrant from the United States for the quantity of land due the said deceased, from the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his right to it in any manner during his life time.
H. A. DeSaufsure Guardian
THEREFORE, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, H. A. Desaussure Guardian of Alester Garden as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Col. JOSEPH WATSON my true and lawful attorney, for me, in my name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, for the time being, a warrant for the quantity of land due in right of said deceased. And my said attorney I do hereby fully authorize and empower to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purpose herein expressed, and the same to revoke at will.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this fifteenth day of March A.D. 1832
H. A. DeSaussure
Guardian of Alester Garden
In presence of Benj. F Pepoon
( No. 2. )
PERSONALLY appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the above named County, the above named H. A. DeSaussure Guardian signer and sealer to the foregoing declaration and power of attorney, and made oath in due form of law to the one, and acknowledged the other, as his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named.
Sworn, subscribed, and acknowledged before me, this fifteenth day of March A. D. 1832.
s/ Thomas J. Gantt JP
(No. 3. )
STATE OF South Carolina
Charleston District
PERSONALLY appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the District aforesaid, Charles Graves and James Jervey both
credible and disinterested persons, who, being duly sworn, did depose and say, that they verily believe
that Major Alexander Garden
named in the within declaration, signed by HA DeSaussure Guardian of Alester Garden served in the Lees Legion in the Virginia line, during the Revolutionary War: That they have understood that he died about three years since, viz. on or about the twenty fourth day of February 1829 at Charleston within the City of Charleston of State aforesaid leaving no widow and that Alester Garden is
the reputed devisee & representative
of the said Alexander Garden. 
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15th day of March A.D. 1832
Ch Graves
James Jervey
James D. Mitchell Ordinary of Charleston District & Justice of the Peace
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(NO. 4 )
STATE OF South Carolina
Charleston District 
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this day, to wit: the fifteenth day of March Anno Domini, 1832, there has been adduced satisfactory proof to me
by the deposition of Charles Graves and James Jervey two credible witnesses, and other explanations and information submitted, that HA DeSaussure Guardian of Alester Garden who has made the
declaration on oath, and has subscribed the power of attorney herewith connected, is the Guardian of Alester Garden who is the sole
heir of Alexander Garden late a Lieutenant in [Col. Henry] Lee's Legion in the Continental army of the Revolutionary War, and that the said Alester Garden the minor resides at Columbia within the State aforesaid
IN WITNESS OF ALL WHICH, I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal official, in my capacity of Ordinary for Charleston District this fifteenth day of March Anno Domini, 1832
s/ James D Mitchell Ordinary of Charleston District
(NO 5. )
STATE OF South Carolina
Charleston District 
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Thomas J. Gantt Esquire, before whom the declaration, power of attorney, and deposition hereto annexed appear to have been signed and made, was, at the time of signing and making the same, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Charleston aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such, and to all his official acts as such, due faith and credit should and ought to be given that James D. Mitchell whose name is subscribed above & on the previous page is Ordinary of Charleston District
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Charleston this fifteenth day of March 1832
s/ W.S. Smith CCR
(No. 6. )
INSTRUCTIONS.
...is only requisite that one of the heirs should sign the declaration and power of attorney... in the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut and Vermont,
Judge of Probate, in New York and New Jersey the Surrogates; in South Carolina and Georgia the
Ordinaries; in Virginia, North-Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the other Western States, the
Court of Record are considered as authorized to certify heirship; yet it is deemed expedient to accompany
their certificates (which must be under seal, or its absence accounted for with the evidence on which
they may grant them, and hence the deposition No. 3, herewith, which is indispensable as to the States of
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina, where it has been considered that no particular
officer is authorized to certify heirship, yet even in these, it is advisable to cause the certificate of heirship No. 4, to be signed by the officer charged by law, with the granting letters of administration, and receiving the proof of wills.
DIRECTIONS AS TO FILLING OUT THE BLANKS.
In the declaration, after the name in the first line, place the degree of relationship -- After regiment
in the 5th line, place infantry, artillery, dragoons, invalids, sappers and miners, Hazen or Congress, as
the case may be, the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied. In deposition No. 3, previous to the word widow place the word or no, as the case may be;
and in the blank which follows, place the names of all the heirs, having care after the name of each, to state, his or her degree of relationship to the deceased; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to
be supplied. In the certificate of heirship, No. 4, after the word proof, insert the words to me, or the
court of _ holden at _ as the case may require; and previous to the words and one, insert the degree of relationship of the person who signs the power of attorney. In the large blank, insert the names of all the other heirs, designating their relationship and residence; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied.