Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File BL Reg. 241 203-1855, John Frazer, Ga. Revolutionary War
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Ga.
Frazer, John
Revolutionary War
BL Reg. 241 203-1855
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LAND FILES
ACT OF 1855 - Rejected #241.203
VETERAN John Frazier
1777 Grade: Lt
Service: Revolutionary War Ga
______________________
CAN NO. 1770 BUNDLE NO. 170
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Set: J. Lumpkin Oct 3d 56
241.203 Act of Mar 3 55
April 9.56,
Mary Frazier,
widow of John Frazier
dec. LT
Est. 1777.
dis' 1782
Revolutionary War.
Geo. No Paper in [illegible]
Tho. Lumpkin
Present
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STATE OF Georgia
COUNTY OF Richmond
On this 6th day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, personally appeared before me, Thomas Skinner [handwritten above illegible] within and for the county and State aforesaid, Mary Frazier, aged 97, years, a resident of Richmond, in the State of Georgia, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Frazier, deceased, who was a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Captain not recollected in the Georgia regiment of [regiment crossed out], commanded by _______, in the war with Great Britain 1776, that her said husband John Frazier, on or about the ___ day of ____ A. D. 1777, for the term of the war and continued in actual service in said war for the term of five years and was honorably discharged at Savannah, on the ___ day of ___ A. D. 1872
She further state that she was married to the said John Frazier in 1792 on the 20th day of April A.D. ____, by one ____, a ____ and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Durden; that her said husband died [at crossed out] Richmond [illegible} on the 5th day of July A. D. 1850 ([illegible]), and that she is now a widow.
She further declares that she has ^not heretofore made application for bounty land nor [and crossed out] obtained a land warrant [for_____ acres No. ___________, which she has legally disposed of, and it cannot now be returned. crossed out]
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855."
Mary [her mark] Frazier
We, H. A. Ramsey and [illegible] residents of Columbia, in the state of Georgia upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Frazier in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
H. A. Ramsey
[illegible]
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Thomas Skinner J J B. dc
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STATE OF Georgia
Richmond County.
I hereby certify that Thomas Skinner before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, is, and was at the time, a Justice of the Interior Court in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, as clerk of the Interior Court of said County, this 4th day of April 1856.
Benj J. Hall Clerk
241.203 No 895
Mary Frazier
Act 3 March 1855
Original
Th. Lumpkin
Present