Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 564, Paul Barringer, N.C.
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SERVICE

N.C.

Barringer, Paul
Catharine

NUMBER
R. 564

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CONTENTS

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State of North Carolina 
County of Cabarris [sic] ss.

On this 19th day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty-five before the Hon Judge of the Court of Law being a superior court in open Court, held within and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Leah Smith, aged 63 years, a resident of Cabarris in the County of Cabarris and State of North Carolina, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the act of [blank spaces]

That she is the only surviving child and heir at law of Paul Barringer, late of the County of Cabarris [written in heavier ink over a gray area corrected] and state of North Carolina, deceased, who was a private soldier belonging to the North Carolina troops or militia, in the war of the Revolution. That she is unable to state the names of the officers under whom her father served.
That from the best of her information and belief he [sic] said father entered the service from Mecklenburg County in said state about the [blank spaces] day of [blank spaces] A.D. 17 and continued in said service for the term of [blank spaces]. That there is no documentary evidence of his service in deponents possession nor does she know of any. That her father the said Paul Barringer died at Cabarris County on the 1st day of January Eighteen hundred and Seven and that he left deponents mother viz: Catharine Barringer his widow. That her father and mother the said Paul and Catharine were Martin in Mecklenburg [caret] now Cabarris in the County of Mecklenburg in the State of North Carolina on the [blank spaces] day of [blank spaces] in the year seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven
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by one
and that her said mothers name before her marriage was Catharine Blackwelder That her mother the said Catharine also died on the 29th day of October Eighteen hundred and forty seven and that she left surviving her the following named children and none other or others, viz  Applicant & Polly Harris [?]

and that deponents is the only surviving child of the said soldier and Catharine her said widow.

And further that there is No public account of the said marriage - and that there is No private account of the marriage.

She hereby appoints C. W. Bennett her true and lawful attorney with power of substitution to prosecute her claim, to receive the certificate when issued and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises.
Witness J. D. Bailey [too faded] [squiggly lines] [signed] Leah Smith

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year just above mentioned, and I certify that I know the said deponents Leah Smith and believe her to be as is above stated and of the age above stated and further that I am not interested in this claim as attorney or otherwise.

Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court affixed by order of the said Court now in session.

[signed] J. O. Wallace Clerk &c:
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State of North Carolina
County of Cabarris [squiggly lines] ss.

On this 19th day of November Eighteen hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly authorized to administer oaths Rufus Barringer a resident of said county, to me well known as a credible witness, and who bring by me first duly sworn do the on his oath state that he was acquainted with Mrs. Catharine Barringer deceased, above named, that he knew her for 25 or 26 years before her death - that he has examined her family record - that he believes the same to be genuine - that it is contained in a Blank book purporting to be the “[caret] ages of the children of Paul Barringer decd and printed in the year [blank] and that the said record as far as relates to the marriage of the said Catharine and of her death and of the death of her husband, and the names & date of birth of her children is as follows viz: gives the births of the children by two marriages viz: by the 1st marriage, Catherine Barringer born Nv. 24th 1750, & John Barringer born Nv. 22nd 1752:
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State of North Carolina}
County of Cabarris} SS.
On this 19th day of November in the years Eighteen hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, Mary Barringer age 83 years and Daniel Faggart age 78 years who are to me well known and who are credible witnesses, and who being by me duly sworn, depose and say that they were each well acquainted wiht Mrs. Catharine Barringer deceased, that they knew her for 50 years before her death: That they were acquainted with Paul Barranger deceased, who was reputed & believed to have been a Revolutionary soldier and was so recognized and treated, her late husband, having known him for at least twenty years previous to his death. That they the said Paul and Catharine lived together as husband and wife, and were reputed so to be, and that deponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned. That the said Paul Barringer died on the first day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred and seven; and his widow the said Catharine Barringer died on the 29th day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty seven [47 inserted above]; and that she left surviving her the following named children, viz Leah Barringer now by marriage Leah Smith and that Mrs. Leah Smith, who has executed 
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the foregoing declaration is the only surviving child and heir of the said Paul and Catharine Barringer. And deponents further state that they are disinterested; and that they reside in Cabarris County
Mary [her H mark] Baringer
Daniel Faggerty

H.A. Area}

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th nineteenth day of November A.D. 1855 and I certify that I am not nitersted herein as attorney or otherwise.
A J Yorke Justice of the Peace

State of North Carolina}
County of Cabarrus} SS.
I do hereby certify that A. J. Yorke Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified, and that his signatures thereto are genuine.
[Seal attached] In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Court of my official seal, this 1st day of December A.D. 1855.
J.W. Scott Clerk. &c.
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State of North Carolina}
County of Cabarrus}
Sup Court of Law}
It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before the [marked out] Superior Court of Law held in and for said county, and in open court, and which said evidence is hereunto annexed, that Paul Barringer, who as reputed, was a Revolutionary soldier in the service from the state of North Carolina, died on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and seven, leaving surviving him a widow named Catharine Barringer, who also died on the 29th day of October Eighteen hundred and forty seven, and that Mrs. Leah Smith, a resident of Cabarrus is the only surviving child and heir at law of the said Catharine Barringer deceased.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto, by order of said court now in session, set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 19th day of November A.D. 1855.
J.O. Wallace Clerk.

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To all whom it may concern
Know ye that we, having examined the records of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Cabarrus, do find upon the minutes of January Term 1807 of our said Court certain entries of proceedings had in regard to the probate of the last Will and Testament of Paul Barringer deceased; which entries are in the following words and figures:
State of North Carolina
At a County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for the County of Cabarrus, at the Court House in Concord, on the third Monday in January Anno Domini 1807, and in the XXXI year of American Independence
Present the Worshipful James Scott Joseph Young Isaiah Shear John Masters } Esquires
The last Will and Testament of Paul Barringer Senr decd, was duly proven in open court by the oath of Geo. Misenheimer and Owen Dry two subscribing witnesses therein named. Ordered that letter testamentary issue to John Barringer Senr. and Jacob Barringer Esq. two of the executors therein named, which was done according to law.
The aforesaid Will admitted to probate as above shown and as it appears of record, is in the following words and figures, to wit,
“In the name of God Amen. I, Paul Barringer of the County of Cabarrus and State of North Carolina, being far advanced in age
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but of perfect mind and memory and considering the mortality of my body and knowing that it is allotted for all men once to die, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following : First of all I recommend my soul in the hand of Almighty God, hoping to find mercy, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent-like manner at the discretion of my executors, hereafter named, and it is my will that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall be punctually paid and discharged; and concerning my worldly estate, wherewith it has pleased God in the following manner to wit: 
1st: I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Catharine Barringer a tract of land lying and being in the County of Montgomery, by the name of Paul Donald’s Place, containing by survey four hundred acres more or less, to the end that she my said wife Catharine shall have free liberty and access to said land and to act and do as she shall think fit during her natural life and after her decease the said land of four hundred acres shall be returned to my estate, to be dealt with as hereafter provided for; also I will and it is my full desire that she shall have her residence on the plantation I now live on during her widowhood and as long she lives in the capacity of a widow by my name, said residence to consist of my dwelling house, out houses and stabling necessary for her station of life, to be adjudged by my executors; also the fourth part
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of my clear land; also the fourth part of all the fruits, if any, on my said plantation, during her widowhood; also four hundred pounds current money of this state, to be paid to her out of my estate in money or property, provided she doth not ask any other dowry in and on any other of my lands which are herby willed and bequeathed to any of my children and after her decease the said land of four hundred acres in Montgomery County shall be sold at public vendice to the highest bidder and the money so arising therefrom shall be equal divided amongst all my children or their issue.
2d. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Paul Barringer a tract or parcel of land being the plantation I now live on with all improvements and every other appurtenances thereunto belonging or appertaining except so much thereof as I have willed to his mother, my beloved wife Catharine, during her widowhood, that is to say: the two old surveys deeded to me by and from Governor Arthur Dobbs, containing by survey one tract, one hundred and eighty-five acres; and the other tract one hundred and nineteen acres; and fifty acres by a state grant dated November the 2d 1784; also nineteen acres by a state grant dated November the 26th 1789; also two hundred and twenty-seven acres, for to make up the remaining part of six hundred acres of land which is to be taken out of a tract of land by a state grant in my own name of six hundred acres of land dated November 1784, joining the old surveys deeded to, on the West side of my plantation and the [remaining]
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[remaining] part of said tract being three hundred and seventy-three acres shall be sold at public sale to the highest bidder; and the money so arising therefrom shall be equal divided amongst all my children or their issues; also I give and bequeath unto my said son Paul, my wagon and two horses his choice and the hind gears; one of my copper stills, his choice; one negro fellow, his choice out of my negroes, and one hundred pounds current money of this state, to be paid to him out of my estate, not provided for in any Estatee share; in trust for the term of three years, to be by him enjoyed free in order to give him a share in working the plantation and after the time of three years is elapsed the said negro, wagon and horse shall be returned to my estate and the same with the copper still shall be exposed at public sale to the highest bidder, and the money, bonds or notes so arising therefrom shall be equal divided amongst all my children, or their lawful heirs.
3d. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Matthias Barringer one tract or parcel of land, containing by survey two hundred and twenty-two acres, known by the name of Old Eaginers Place, whereon he now lives in this county on the waters of Dutch Buffaloe Creek; also a tract of fifty acres of land, joining the former tract by a state grant in my own name; these two tracts containing in the whole two hundred and seventy-two acres of land shall be for the only proper use and behalf of my said son Matthias Barringer to him and his heirs forever; also I give and bequeath
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unto my said son Matthias the sum of six hundred and seventy-five dollars to be discounted with him out of the money I have advanced to him.
4th: I give and bequeath to my beloved son Daniel Barringer the sum of twelve hundred Spanish milled dollars, to be paid to him out of my estate in money, bonds, notes or trade, as soon as convenient after my decease for his own proper use and disposal forever.
5th: I give and bequeath to my beloved son Jacob Barringer the sum of twelve hundred Spanish milled dollars, to be paid to him in money, notes or trade as soon as can be collected, for his own proper use, to him and his heirs forever.
6th: I give and bequeath to each of my daughters of my second marriage, to wit, Elizabeth, Sarah, Esther, Leah and Polly Barringer, to every and each of them the sum of eight[een marked out] hundred Spanish milled dollars, to be paid or discounted with them as soon as convenient after my decease, to be enjoyed by them or their heirs forever.
7th: I give and bequeath to my son John Barringer the sum of six hundred pounds, which I have advanced to him according to receipt in my possessions, dated June the 29th 1795.
8th: Concerning the remainder part of my land and personal estate and heretofore provided for, it is my will and full desire that as soon as convenient the same, and every part and article thereof shall be exposed to public sale to the highest bidder at a reasonable credit, not exceeding twelve months by my executors and the money, bonds or notes, so arising therefrom, shall be (as soon my just debts are paid, my funeral and other
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expenses discharged and my executors each of them received the sum of twenty-five pounds, current money, as an acknowledgment to them together, with a reasonable allowance for their trouble, that what there is remaining with the capital left on hand and after each of my legatees have received their full share as heretofore willed, be equally divided amongst all my children of my first and second marriages to wit, John, Catharine, Paul, Matthias, Elizabeth, Sarah, Esther, Daniel, Jacob, Leah and Polly Barringer, each of them one share and my wife Catharine one share of the whole remainder part of my estate to be enjoyed and possessed by them, to their own proper use forever.
Item: I do humbly request my executors hereafter named to take particular care and have my children, under age, instructed in the Christian Faith and to give them a reasonable education as they see cause and time will present, which said expense shall be retained and paid out of my estate; my will also is that if any of my children, or any other person or persons should attempt to alter or change any clause of this my last will, they shall not enjoy or inherit a single cent of my estate; also them that will criticise the receipts they have given for money advanced to them, to be discounted out of each of their shares.
And I do hereby nominate and appoint my beloved sons John Barringer and Paul Barringer and my son-in-law George Savitz, likewise my truly beloved friend John Semison to be my Executors of this my last Will and
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Testament revoking all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made and established, allowing this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed any seal this fourth day of August Anno Domini 1805, and in the thirtieth year of our Independence.
Paul Barringer Senr {seal}
Signed, Sealed publish [marked out] declared to be my last Will and Testament, in the presence of David Templeton
George Misenheimer
Peter Kanble
Owen Day”
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[ink faded and difficult to read]
State of North Carolina, Cabarrus County
I J.W. Scott, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing pages, seven in [illegible] contain a true full and correct Transcript of the proceedings had in our said court and also an accurate copy of the Will of Paul Barringer as stated on the first page.
[seal attached] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 15th day of November 1855
J. W. Scott Clerk
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Rev. War Section.

April 14, 1921.

Mrs. Edwin T. Jones,
1508 N. Carroll Ave.,
Dallas, Texas.

Madam:
     In response to  your letter dated the 1" of March you are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim R. File No. 584, that Paul Barringer had by his first wife whose name is not stated, two children Catharine and John.  He married in 1777 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Catharine Blackwelder; their children were Paul, Matthias, Martin, Elizabeth, Sarah, Esther, Daniel, Jacob C., Leah and Polly who married ---Harris. 
     He died January 1, 1807 and his widow Catharine died October 29, 1847.
     In 1855, their only surviving child Leah Smith applied for pension and alleged that her father Paul Barringer served as a Private in the North Carolina troops War of the Revolution, but the claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of his service as required by the pension law.
     The Revolutionary War records fail to afford any
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information is regard to Dro Ambrose Barker and Caleb Blackwelder.
Very Respectfully
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
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[left column]
1921 Apr. 14 Histo to Mrs. Edwin T. Jones. A.E.W. By V.L.M.
1929-June 12 Hayden Watkins adv. cost of photos MMJF

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Ex’r. INVALID.
No. 564[?]
[marked out - Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 9, 1873.]
[stamped - REJECTED]
Catharine Barringer
P.O. wid. of Paul
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18
Discharged: [blank], 18
Application filed: [blank], 18
Alleges: [writing faded]
Re-enlisted: [writing faded]
Attorney: [blank]
P. O. [blank]
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No. 8150.
Catharine Barringer dec widow of Paul
N.Carolina
[marked out - Let. C.WBennett Jan.7, 1856]
564
Act 4 July 1836
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State of North Carolina}
County of Cabarris} SS
On this 10 day of December AD 1855 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace duly autherized by law to administer Oaths within and for said county personally appeard Phillip Cariker age 95 years a resident of said county to me well known and who I certify to be a good and credible witness and of good recollection and memmory and first being by me duly sworn according to law Depose and say that he is well acquainted with Leah Smith
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State of North Carolina
County of Cabarris ⎬ SS
On this 16th day of
December 1855 before me the undersigned a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County duly ortherized [authorized]
by law to administer Oath personally appeared
Leah Smith whose name appears in her foregoing
Declaration well known to me and being by me
first duly sworn depose and say that there is
no public or private record of the marriage of
her parrents Paul and Catharine Barringer
that from her mothers Declaration She Catharine
---
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Barringer (Catharine Blackwelder before marriage)
was twenty two years old when married to
her father Paul Barringer She makes this affida
vit for the Purpose of Showing how she is able to
fix the time of sd [said] marriage and further that the will anexed
to the foregoing declaration is the will of her father Paul
Barringer Leah Smith
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day
and year first above mentioned
G. H. Sweringer JP
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State of North Carolina}
Cabarrus County} On this the 12th day of
December A.D. 1855 before me, the undersigned Justice
of the Peace for said County & state + duly authorized
to administer oaths, personally appeared Rufus
Barringer to me known as a credible witness, who being
[illegible] sworn according to law, doth before
& say, that he is the grand son of the late Catherine
Barringer, formerly Blackwelder, & wife of Paul
Barringer dec'd that he frequently heard his said grandmother
say that she & Paul Barringer were married
during the Revolution & in the early part of it, say in
1777, that she was then about 22 years of age,
& it appears from a memorandum in my
possession obtained from my father Paul Barringer
their said son, that she was born on the
13th day of December 1755 & both she & my late
father frequenty told me that the said Paul
Barringer, was at the time of their said marriage
a widower, with two children by a former marriage
& that he was much older than she was, that
he took an active part in the Revolution in
favor of the American cause & was once taken
prisoner by the Tories & carried to Camden
S.C. but the particular [service?] remembered
when under [affi??ant] was not remember
if ever [?] him.
Sworn & subscribed } Rufus Barringer
before me
A.J. York J.P.
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State of North Caroline, Cabarrus County
I J. W. Scott, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions for the County of Cabarrus do hereby
certify that G. H. Swaringen, before whom the fore-
going deposition of Philip Carriker and Leah
Smith were made, and who certifies hereto and signs
the same, and A. J. York, before whom the
deposition of Rufus Barringer was made and
subscribed, were each, were each, at the time of certifying
and signing acting, Justice of the Peace in
and for said county, duly commissioned
and qualified (as appears upon the records of
our said court, and that the signatures
purporting to be theirs are genuine. I futher
certify that the deponent Philip Carriker is, I
believe ninety-five years of age or thereabouts
and that G. H. Swaringen and A. J. York Esquire,
as both gentlemen of credibility and veracity
and that Mrs Leah Smith and Rufus Barringer
are credible witnesses; Mr. Barringer being a
gentleman of high standing and an eminent
lawyer, in testimony whereas I have
hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal
of said Court at office
this 12th day of December
A D. 1855 J. W. Scott Clerk
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Washington,
Honl. J. Minot Dec. 15, 1855
Court of Pensions Sir,
I have the honor to enclose here-
with the declaration of Mrs. Leah Smith only surviving child
of Catharine widow of Paul Barringer decd. of N.C. for thee
benefits of the act of 4th July 1836.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
C. W. Bennett
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C. W. Bennett
January 7, 1856
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N.C.
Act 4 July 1836
Pension Office,
January 7, 1856.
Sir,
I have very carefully examined the papers
presented by you in support of a claim for
pension of the surviving child of Catharine
Barringer, widow of Paul Barringer, an
alleged Revolutionary soldier, and filed them
under the act of July 4, 1836
It is not satisfactorily shown that the
Paul Barringer mentioned in these papers
as the father of the claimant, performed
the service for which the payments were made
as certified by the Comptroller of North
Carolina - nor does it appear from
the  [illegible and crossed out] ^Certificate what^ those services were, or in
what grade the party performed them 
neither does it appear whether the sums
named in the Certificate were currency or specie
The claim, is therefore suspended.
I am
C. W. Bennett Esqr  & C
Present
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{State of N. Carolina
{Comptrollers Department
I Geo W Brooks Comptroller of Public Accounts
in and for the state aforesaid do here-
by certify that it appears of record
in my office among the payments
made to sundry persons for military
drawn in the Revolutionary war as
follows, to wit,
Paul Barringer
Book 3 Page 19  L [pound sign]2 100 -Salisbury District
" 175 " 6  L [pound sign] 40,,12,6 - allowed by Comt of safety
in January 1779
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the seal of
said office in the City
of Raleigh on this the
24th of October 1855
Geo W Brooks Compt.
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S H [?] Esq
Dear Sir,
I hope you
have not concluded that you would
not be able to get a certificate in the
case of Paul Barringer as I told
you, the business in the office
was here [??] for the last
month it was impossible to attend
to your application [??] this [??]

at the [??], the certificate
here enclosed contains the record
evidence of Mr Barrenger service
I hope it may serve whatever
purpose you wish it.
Very Respectfully
Geo W Brooks
Comptl
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Dallas Texas
Mar-1-1921

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir-
     Please give revolution 
record of my gr-gr-grandfather, 
Dr. Ambrose Barker; - born Surry Co. 
Virginia, Sept. 2. 1750. Died Lincoln 
Co, Tennesee, Feb. 5. 1815
________________________________________________
Also, please give Revolutionary and 
Colonial Military record of Caleb 
Blackwelder of Penn.(married 
(second time)- Polly Decker of Germany) 
who was member of committee if Safty-
I want name of all his children by 
1st and 2nd marriages.
_________________________________________________
Want Revolutionary record of Paul,
or Paulus Barringer, (born Wurtemburg 
Germany - June 4, 1721 - emigrated to
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2
Philadelphia Sept. 30, 1743)
Married Catherine, daughter of 
Blackwelder and wife Polly (Decker.)
Paul (or Paulus) was captain in 
Colonial Militia and member of 
Committee of safty-
Want names of all his children -
Family later removed to Cabarrus Co. N.C.

Thanking you in advance,
Margaret Erwin Jones

address
Mrs. Edwin T. Jones
1508 N. Carroll Ave -
Dallas, Texas -
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[typewritten document; the capital letter O strikes above the baseline of other type]

Cushing, Okla.,
May 29, 1929

Bureau of Pensions.
Washington D. C.

Will you pleasure mail me a copy of the records that you have
in your office, That is in case you have a record of John Paul [underlined in pencil] Barringer
applying for a pension, He was a soldier during revolutionary war and 
enlisted for Cabarrus county North Carolina, He was one of the signors of the declarmation [sic] of Mecklenburg,
Yours Truly
[signed] Hayden Watkins
Hayden Watkins.
Box 235
Cushing, Oklaho[missing m]a.

If you have any records I wish that you have a [underlined in pencil] photostat made of these
records and let me know how much they cost. I will mail you a money order for them.

This man is my great[superscript] 4 grand father.

[circular rubber stamped image appears]

PENSION X JUN 1 1929 U.S. OFFICE
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
MMHF
[faded pencil word illegible]

June 12, 1929.

Hayden Watkins, 
Box 235, 
Cushing, Oklahoma.

Sir:

I advise you that the Revolutionary War records of 
this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to 
John Paul Barringer.
The name Paul Barringer appears as of Cabarrus 
County, North Carolina, R. File No. 564.
If you desire photostatic copies of the papers on 
file in this claim, the same will be furnished you under 
the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1912, at the 
rate of fifteen cents a page with twenty-five cents extra 
for certification if that is desired. 
The number of pages to be copied is nineteen.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this bu-
reau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary 
of the Interior.

Respectfully,

EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.