Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,359, for Christopher Poss, Virginia
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(3-1776)
SERVICE        NUMBER
 Va.   Poss, Christopher    R. 8,359
Also served in 1794
CONTENTS
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State of Georgia}
Wilkes County}
On this 9th day of June 1855. personally appeared before me a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said State & County, George F. Buchanon and Jacob. Wolf residents of said state & county who being duly sworn according to law, depose and say, that they ^were well acquainted with Christopher Poss and Susan Poss late residents of said county: that the said Christopher Poss and Susan Poss lived together as man and wife: and were reputed & believed to be such among their neighbors: and that Christopher Poss died during the fall of 1836 and said Susan Poss died in October 1827 and that George Poss and Catherine Agee formerly Catherine Poss are the only surviving children of said Christopher Poss and Susan Poss:
Sworn to & Subscribed Before me on the day and year above written}
G. F. Buchanan
         his
Jacob  X  Wolf
         mark
Lewis S. Brown J. I C.
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Affidavit
of
G. F. Buchanan & Jacob Wolf
Royland Beasley Clk
IC
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State of Georgia}
Wilkes County}
I, Royland Beasley Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify- that Lewis S. Brown before whom the above affidavit was made was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Inferior Court in & for said County & state duly commissioner & sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that his signature to the above affidavit is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal - this 11th day of June 1855.
Royland Beasley Clk
IC
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George Poss & Catherine Agee
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Application of George Poss & Catharine Agee, heirs of Christopher Poss decd. a Revolutionary Soldier, for Pension due, under Act of 7 June 1832
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Filed by Miller & Brandeheny
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Georgia
Wilkes County ss
On this the 19th day of June AD One thousand eight hundred and fifty five Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Inferior Court in & for the County & State aforesaid George Poss & Catherine Agee residents of said State & County who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that their Father Christopher Poss was drafted in the County of Rockingham & State of Virginia in the war of the Revolution for the term of eighteen months & served until the close of the war under General George Washington, was present at Yorktown & saw Cornwallis surrender.  Their Father Christopher Poss died in Wilkes County Georgia in the month of April eighteen hundred & thirty-six leaving two Children, George Poss & Catherine Agee.  He was married in the year 1783 in Rockingham county Virginia to Susan Aler that his wife died in Wilkes County & State of Georgia in the year eighteen hundred and twenty seven, that there are no other heirs or children but Deponents & who make this application for the purpose of obtaining the Pension money due their said Father Christophen Poss under the act of congress of July 7th 1832.  That this said Father did not during his life nor has his heirs since his applied for or received any Pension money for his said service  they further declare they have no document any evidence of his service in support and claim unless the same is of record in the war Department
Sworn to & Subscribed
before me this the 19th day
of June 1855
[signed on right] George Poss  Catherine X her mark Agee
signed on left] Lewis S Brown J.I.C.
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Georgia Wilkes County
I Royland Beasley Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the county & state Aforesaid, do hereby certify that Lewis S. Brown, before whom the above declaration was made was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Inferior Court in & for said County duly Commissioned & Sworn and that all his official acts as such an entitled to full faith & Credit & that his signature to the above is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official [illegible] this 19th day of June 1855.
Royland Beasley Clk
IC
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This may Certify that Christopher Poss Was Discharged as an Invalid in Capt. Pipers Comp. by a Regimental court held at R. Wells {illegible] April 25th 1794
Saml. Crawby Jr.A.
Approvd.
Wm. Triplett Lt. Col. J.R.
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38,993
Christopher Poss decd.
Georgia
Miller & Brandenburg July 6 1855
Same Feby 23 1856.
8359
June 7, 1832
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(Acts of July 14, 1832, and March 3, crossed out) 1873.
8359
P.O.  Christopher Poss
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted:    , 18
Discharged:    , 18
Application filed:     , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.  Contract
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for    , 18
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Before me Thomas Elliott a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Wilkes in the State of Georgia personally appeared the undersigned. Citizens of Said County who being Sworn in due form of law, on their oaths deposeth, and Saith, That they were personally acquainted with Christopher Poss, late of said County deceased for many years previous. his death That, we believe that the Said Poss was a private Soldier in the American Revolution against Great Britain and that was generally believed. in the Community in which he lived and died that he was a soldier as aforesaid and that George Poss and Katharine Agee, are the only living children of the said Chris. Poss that Said Poss died int he year 1836.  John Danner ]illegible]
          his
Andrew  X  Wolfe Jr.
           mark
             his
Francis  X  Wolfe
         mark

Samuel Fourney
Sworn to before me this 25th day of October 1854.
thomas Elliott J.P.
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State of Georgia}
Wilkes County }
I, Royland Beasley Clerk of the Inferior Court within and for said County do Certify that Thomas Elliott whose Official attestation appears to the within affidavit is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, of Wilkes and that said signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of Office this 26th day of October 1856
Royland Beasley Clk
IC