Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4349, John M Griver, Ga.
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Ga.  Griver, John M   R.4349
      or Griner
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

(hand written) 4349
P.O. 
(signature) John M. Griver
Service:
Enlisted:          ,18
Discharged:    ,18
(stamped) Rejected 

Application filed:       ,18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

Recognized              Contract
Cert. of Dis.    Searched for       , 18
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Halcyondale, Georgia
9th Sept. 1866


[] J L Edwards

Dear Sir,

I have the honor herewith to [] to you the Declaration of Jonathon Griner, son of John M Griner, a revolutionary soldier.  We have no other or additional evidence than the enclosed. Please [] me with early instructions in the above case.
I am very Respectfully your obedient Servant. Cuyler W Young
Direct your reply to me, []
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37383
John M. Griner
Declaration
act 7 June 1872

[illegible]
1814.
Jonathan Griner
for the Pension
of his father
John M. Griner

Act of 1850 on
other Act of
Congress.
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Declaration of Johnathan Griver for the Pension of his father John M. Griver, a Revolutionary Soldier.

State of Georgia
Bulloch County
Inferior Court
September Term 1846.

On this 7th day of September, personally appeared in open Court, Johnathan Griner, a resident of Bulloch County, State of Georgia, aged thirty-seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed in 1818. That he had a father in the Regular service at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and served as a regular soldier during most of the war; but this declarant does not precisely recollect the period when his father entered the service, the length of his service, or the number of the officers under whom his father served. Declarant has heard from his father that he fought at the battle of Eutaw Springs under Gen. Green; and he knows that his father
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received during the war, a severe wound in
one of his legs, for declarent has often seen
the wound. Declarants father during the war re
sided on the Savannah river in Screveir
County, State of Georgia, where the royalists,
in course of the war, deprived him of all he
possessed, drove away and killed and appropri
ated all his cattle, his principal property, robbed
him and his family of the necessary means of
subsistence, and burnt down all
his houses, so that declarants father and family
were cast upon the world without house or
home, suffering every hardship and privation
and misery that poverty and war could
inflict. This Declarant believes that his father
had already formed the resolution to apply
for his pension, when death in the year
1807, defeated his good purpose. And since
then, declarent has failed to apply for his fathers pension. 
by reason of the many obstacles which seemed
to present themselves in the prosecution of
such an undertaking. Yet, declarent hopes
and believes, that he will be entitled to by the
equity of the Statutes of Congress in such cases
made and provided, to whatever sum of
money that might have been drawn by his
father for his services, had he survived to have
established his claim. Declarants father died
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in 1807, as he believes, in the fiftieth year of his age; but declarant has no record of his father's age in his possession; and has not his father's discharge or any of his papers to use as evidence in this application. This declaration
and the accompanying certificate is the only
evidence at present in his possession; and
in submitting this, he fully believes that
sufficient evidence of his father's service
will be found of record at Washington City.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
(Signed)-Jonathan Griver

And the said Court, from what they have
heard, and the credit they give to Mr J. Griners evidence, hereby declare their opinion
that the father of the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and
served as he has stated.
Wm William J.J.C.B.C.
M Tiimmon JJCBC

JP MillerJJCBC
James Lee J.C.B.C
I, David Beasly,
Clerk of the Inferior Court
of Bullock County, do hereby certify that
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the foregoing contains the original proceed of the said court 
in the matter of the application
of Jonathan Griner for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this Seventh day
of September 1846
David Beasley Clerk.
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SERVICE
Ga.

*
Griver, John M.
or Griner

NUMBER
R. 4349
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Halcyondale (Georgia)
9th Sept. 1846
J L Edwards
Dear Sir,
I have the honor, herewith to transmit, to you the
Declaration of Jonathan Griner, son of John M.
Griner, a revolutionary soldier. We have no
other or additional evidence then the enclosed.
Please furnish me with early instructions
in the above case. 

I am Very Respectfully
Your obedient Servant,
Cuyler W Young,
Direct your reply to me, Halcyondale ,Ga