Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11714, John Wingfield, Va.
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Service  VA
Wingfield, John 
Number R11714
Mary
contents
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Martha Foster
Proof of The service
marriage and death of 
John Wingfield and widowhood 
of Mary Wingfield
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State of Georgia
Madison County
Personally appeared before Mr Warren I. Hill a Justice of the Inferior Court of the county and state aforesaid, Martha Foster widow of William H. Forster deceased Pensioner under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, and a resident of said County, a Lady whom I also hereby certify to be of known veracity and respectability who being in due form of law first sworn deposeth and saith on oath That to the best of her knowledge and belief she was born on the thirtyieth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and sixty seven.  That she was the sister of John Wingfield deceased former husband of Mary Wingfield who now applies under said Act of Congress for a pension. that from her earliest recollection to the beginning of the war of the resolution she and her said brother lived together in Hanover  County state of Virginia in their Fathers family.  That said John Wingfield left their fathers house and enlisted the army as a private in a volunteer company from Said County of Hanover for to serve in the war of the revolution and that from all he saw and heard of him believes that he also served in said war. She does not recollect absolutely what time, etc.
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entered the said service but thinks it was
about the begining [sic] of the war nor does she recollect how long he served in said war
but knows that he was in the said army when
the Battle of ninety six was fought, for the
deposeth and saith on oath that about the
year seventeen hundred and eighty four her
fathers family / she and the said John among
them moved from the State of Virginia and
said County of Hanover to Wilks County and
State of Georgia and she recollects that her said brother John Wingfield as the passed a place then called ninety six pointed out to her the Battle ground and then told her that he
was engaged in that Battle and the said
Martha Master being further sworn saith that
said John Wingfield and Mary Wingfield 
formerly Mary Darracott  were married about
the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven
and lived together as man and wife up
to the year Eighteen hundred and two when
the said John Wingfield departed this life
leaving the said May his widow who still so remains having never since married
Sworn to according to law and subscribed
before me this 11th day of June 1845
[signature] Martha Foster
[signature] Warren I Hill J H
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State of Georgia 
Walton County
 I H.W. Nowell Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do Certify that Warren I. Hill will whose name appears to the forgoing affidavit is an acting Justice of the Inferior Court of said County and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given [missing text] as such and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office the 12th day of June 1845.
W W Nowell Clerk
Inferior Court Walton County
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12006
Declaration of
Mary Wingfield

Rd. [Received] June 23. 1845

See Answer of Hanover County Clerk.

A newspaper printed at Washington Georgia  contained the obituary notice of John Wingfield who died 15 January 1807 is returned.

J. H. Foster

1171 H
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State of Georgia
Wilks [sic Wilkes] County S. S.

On this the 16th day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and forty five, personally
appeared before the Honorable Inferior Court of the County and state aforesaid Mary Wingfield a resident of said County, aged seventy nine years who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July the 7th 1838, entitled
"An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of John Wingfield Junior who was a private soldier of Infantry in the Virginia Continental line during the Revolutionary war; that the said John Wingfield entered the said war to the best of her knowledge and belief and rememberance [sic] soon after the begining [sic] thereof, from
Hanover County in the State of Virginia in an Infantry Company commanded by his Cousin John Wingfield Senior whose company was a
volunteer company. That he served in said war about five years and was discharge she thinks in the later part of Seventeen hundred and eighty one, that he served both at the time he entered the service and at the time his discharge in said County of Hanover
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that the said John Wingfield Jr was in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty one engaged in the Battle of "Ninety Six", and that she has no other evidence than that accompanying this declaration in support of her claim
The said Mary Wingfield further declares that she was lawfully married to the said John Wingfield on the fourth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty nine in Wilks [Wilkes] County Georgia and that her husband the aforesaid John Wingfield Jr died on the fifteenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and two in said last County and state where she has continued to reside and still resides the widow of him the said John Wingfield Jr. having never since his his death married. And that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service. that the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
this the 16 day of June 1865
[signature] Mary Wingfield
[signature] Lewis S. Brown JJC
Wilcome Fanning P. J. P.
A.S. Wingfield J.J.C
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State of Georgia Wilkes County Wilkes Superior Court June 1845-
 In the matter of the application Mrs Mary Wingfield as above, The said Court, after a full investigation, give it as their judgement that said John Wingfield was a soldier in the war of the revolution as set forth in said declaration, and that the said Mary as his widow is entitled to the provisions of the act of Congref[s]s pass[ed] 7th July 1838. And the said Court do further say that Mary Wingfield person of Known Credibility and respectability Given under our hands and seal of Office this 16th day of June 1845 Test 
Lewis S Brown J.J.F Royland Beasley Clk. [illegible] Welcome Tanning J.J.F.
 A.S. Wingfield J.J.F. 
State of Georgia Wilkes County
 I Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid, do certify that the above and foregoing are the true and original proceedings in the matter of the application of Mrs Mary Wingfield, who applies as the widow of John Wingfield dec[e]s[e]d, a revolutionary soldier, for her-
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Pension under the act of Congress of the 7 July 1838. In testimony whereof I have this the 16th day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty five in open court set my hand and affixed the seal of my office Royland Beasley FCH. JL.
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Evidence of the clerk of the non existence of the name or the marriage
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Georgia Wilkes County } I John H Dyson clerk of the Court of ordinary in & for Said County, do hereby Certify That it appears from the Record in My office, That a License was issued for the second day of July Seventeen hundred and Eight Seven to Marry John Wingfield and Polly Derracoll,
And I do further Certify That there is no Record of Marraige in My office other than that issuing of the License of the date Mentioned above, or for several years after. _ 
In witness whereof I have hereunto Set My hand and the seal of said Court at My office in Washington. This 16th day of June 1845.
John H Dyson C.C.O. WC.
Georgia Wilkes County I Lewis S Brown presiding Justice of the Inferior Court, in & for said County, do hereby Certify That, John H Dyson, who has signed the above Certificate. is the clerk of the Court of ordinary in & for said County of Wilkes and that full faith and credit is sought to be given to all his official acts as such, and that his said Certificate is in due form and by the proper officer, on testimony where of I have hereunto Set My hand & private Seal not having an official Seal this 16th day of June 1845. Lewis S Brown J.I.C Seal
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel
April 22, 1929
Mrs. Herbert Wingfield
337 Royal Oak Avenue
Colonial Heights
Petersburg, Virginia
Madam
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.11714, it appears that Mary Wingfield applied for pension, June 16, 1845, while a resident of Wilkes County, Georgia, aged seventy-nine years, and alleged that her husband, John Wingfield, Junior, while residing in Hanover County, Virginia, volunteered the beginning of the War and served five years as a private in Captain John Wingfield, Senior's Virginia Company, and was in the battle of Ninety Six.
She stated that Captain John Wingfield, Senior, was a cousin of her husband, John Wingfield, Junior.
The claim was not allowed as she failed to establish
satisfactory proof of service as alleged.
It also appears in said claim, that soldier married, July 4, 1787, in Wilkes County, Georgia, Mary (Polly) Daracott (Darracott ).
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Soldier died, January 15, 1802, in Wilkes County, Georgia.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to show claims for pension on file on account of the services of John Buster, Charles Wingfield, Matthew Wingfield, or of Captain John Wingfield named above.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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1906 Oct. 25 History to Miss C. L. Barnett.
1925 Nov. 15 hist to Mrs. Wm d. L Worsley AWF
1929 apr 22 Hist to Mrs. Herbert Wingfield AWF
11,714
P.O. Mary Winfield
Service:
Enlisted: REJECTED, 18
Discharged: ,18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract
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12006
Mary Wingfield Georgia
Clerk of Hanover County
Act 7 July 1838
also 3 March 43
17 June 44
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This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 10th day of September 1873, in the name of John Wingfield as a Soldier of Infantry for L19.2.8, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to himself _ and was given for services prior to the 1st January 1782.
p315.{No Seal of Office.} Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 22nd day of May 1845. Jas E Heath AUDITOR.
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This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 24th day of March 1784, in the name of John Wingfield as a Soldier of Infantry for L19.15.2, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Benj Kembrough and was given for services prior to the 1st January 1782.
p371.{No Seal of Office.} Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 22nd day of May 1845. Jas E Heath AUDITOR.
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Hanover Court House
January 26, 1847
January 28. 1847 
[illegible] Commission  of John Wingfield 
AW
[illegible]: C.H. Jany 26th 1847
J L Edwards Esquire 
Pension office Washington City DC
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Hanover Court House Virginia January 23rd [18]47 
Dear Sir 
I find that John Wingfield qualified to his commission as a Captain in the Virginia Militia on the 7th day of August 1783 as appears by the records of my office of that date. 
Very Respectfully
William O. Winston
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RICHMOND Va MAY 22
Forwarded from Monroe Court House Virginia 56 1/2
James H Foster Esquire 
Monroe Walton County
Georgia
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Virginia
[illegible]
May 22, 1815
Sir
No evidence can be found in respect to John Darracott. The index certificates show that Wingfield was a soldier, and contains all the information I can find.
Respectfully yours,
William H Richardson
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12006 June 23 1845
Mary Wingfield July 1838
FREE
J.L. Edwards Esq Washington City
WASHINGTON JULY 18
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Monroe Walton Co Ga June 17 1845
Sir Enclosed you have the declaration of Mrs. Mary Wingfield under the act of Congress 7th July 1838. You will percure from it that there is no family or other record of her marriage
I am advised that she will be entitled to a bounty in land from the government, if so will you do me the kindness to inform me in what maner she shall proceed in order to obtain it
Very respectfully James H Foster
J L Edwards Esq
P.S. The news Paper enclosed was one printed at the time of Mr John Wingfields death. After it has been examined pleas ender to "Dr Overton Win field Washington Wilkes Co Georgia" The obituary notice is [illegible]
Respectfully J. H. Foster
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Stephen Pellis & James Wingfield _
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State of Georgia Wilkes County } I Royland Beasley clk of the Inferior Court of the County and sate aforsaid do Certify that Lewis S Brown where name appears to the foregoing affidavits is an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County and that full faith and credit should be had and given to his acts and attestation as such and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine
Given under my hand and seal of office this 16 day of June 1845
Rogland Beasley Clk I.C.
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Georgia Wilkes County} Personally appearance before Mr Lewis S Brown a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County, Stephen Pettis and James Mayfield who being both in and form of Law sworn deposeth and say that they both have heard John Wingfield Senior say in his life time that he was a Captain of a volunteer company from Hanover County Virginia, during the war of the revolution and the said deponents also say that they have heard the  said John Wingfield Senior say that John Wingfield (the former husband of the applicant Mary Wingfield) was in his company as private. and this these deponent depose they have frequently heard this from the said John Captain in his life time . particular the senior James Wingfield who says on oath that he is the son of the said John Senior and these deponents for then say that the said Captain John Senior has been dead upwards of sixteen years , and the said Stephen says that to the best of knowledge he is fifty five year old and the said James to the best of his knowledge that he is in his fifty ninth year of age. And I the said Justice do certify that said deponents are both men of known respectability sworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of June 1845
Lewis S Brown JJC. James Wingfield Stephen G. Pettus
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State of Georgia
Miller County
Personally appeared before
me Lewis J Brown
Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said
County, John Petter a resident of said County
who being in due form of law sworn deposeth
and saith that to the best of his knowledge and
belief he is sixty four years of age
and that lived from his infancy up to
the death of John Mayfield in in his
immediate neighbourhood, and recollects
that when he this deponent was ten or
the year old to wit in the year
nineteen hundred and ninety one and ninety two
the he was frequently at the house of
the said John and knows that the
applicant Mary Wingfield was his
wife at that time and from his
earliest recollection up to his death
which went this deponent knows
took place in the year Eighteen
hundred and two for he this deponent
was present when he died and this
deponent further swore that he has
been acquainted with the said
Mary Wingfied and the death of
the said John and knows that she
has never [illegible] married since
---
and that the said Mary She
Continues [illegible] of the son in John, and I  the said Justice
as hereby certify that said deponent
John Petter is a person of Known
veracity and respectability. Sworn to
and subscribed before me this 16th day
of June 1845
Lewis S. Brown J.J. C. John Petters
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Georgia Wilkes County } Personally appeared before me A S Wingfield a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County Mary Wingfield who being in and form of Law shown, work on her oath make the following statement as an amendment to and in explanation to her declaration for pension under the act of 7 July 1858. filed with the commission of Pensions, to wit, that when she stated in her Declaration aforesaid that her husband John Wingfield served as a volunteer in the war of the revolution she made the statement from an impression on her mind that such way the case, she had the positive
knowledge on the subject and being acquainted with the said John returned long after the close of said war, all she can know is from what her said husband told her in his life time and he having been away for so long a period of time it is suppose +that her recollection should be good and accurate.

She further states that she may have an erroneous assumption as to the said John having been a volunteer, but that he might have served as a drafted soldier or otherwise.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this tenth day of Nov 1846 
A.S. Wingfield J.J.C
Mary Wingfield
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Georgia Wilkes County } I, Royland Beasly clerk of the Inferior Court in and for said County do hereby certify that A S Wingfield whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is an acting Justice of said Court, that the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that full faith  and credit showed be had and given to his attestation as Justice.

Signed under my hand as Seal of Office this 10th day of Nov 1846

Royland Beasley , Clerk
Inferior Court. Wilkes County
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July 29, 1845
Sir:
The papers in the case of Mary Wingfield has been examined and filed. By her declaration it appears that she claims a pension for five years service of John Wingfield under Captain Wingfield who commanded a volunteer company. This claim is not sustained by any testimony which is adduced for volunteers or Militia of the State of Virginia did not
render under the law more than three months
service at any time. The certificate of the Auditor of Public Accounts prove that two John Wingfield's were in the Continental Line, and from the amount paid them each must have been an eighteen months draft & consequently could not have been claimants husband. The claim cannot therefore be admitted upon the testimony filed and the service must be proven according to the regulations. The proof of marriage is satisfactory. Enclosed is the newspaper which
you requested to be returned
To J H. Foster Esq, Monroe, Ga.
_____________________________________________
Jany 20, 1847
Sir: I have the honor to request that you will
be good enough to inform me whether your records between 1765 and '85 afford any evidence of the recommendation & commission of John Wingfield as Capt in the Militia of Hanover Co
To the Clerk of Hanover
Hanover, C.H. Va
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[CROSSED OUT]
LAW OFFICE OF
THIRD NATIONAL BANK BUILDING


Mrs. WM. DE L. WORSLEY
COLUMBUS, GA
Box 1204

U.s Bureau of Pensions

My dear Sirs: - Will you kindly forward me the following information:
Did either John WIngfield Jr. of Hanover County, Va or John Wingfield Sr. of Wilkes County, Georgia, receive a pension after the Revolution? If so will you kindly send me the information contained in these pension documents in regard to the Wingfield family?
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Thanking you for your prompt attention,
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Wm. de L. Worsley
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Rev. and 1812
War Section
P.O. Box 1204
Columbus, Ga.,
Dec 6, 1925

Winfield Scott, Commissioner.
Bureau of Pensions,
Department of the Interior

Dear Sir: - Your letter to me in reply to mine in reference to the service in the Revolution of John Wingfield of Wilkes County, Ga; has been received. In it you
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Mention Captain John Wingfield Sr.'s Virginia Company (of Hanover Co.) Can you tell me what this service was and if this was the John Wingfield of Hanover Co. whose wife was Sarah Garland? I am interested from a genealogical standpoint. 
Thanking you in advance,
Sincerely,
Etta Blanchard Worsley 
(Mrs. Wm. de L. Worsley)
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O.W. & N. DIV.
OCT 17 1906
FILES

Hon. Vespasian Warren:
Dear Sir.
For the purpose of making out D. A. R. paper I desire to have the Official record of my ancestor "John Wingfield" who was a private in Capt John Winston's Company, Commanded by General William Davies.
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He moved to Wilkes County - Ga. Soon after the Revolution - and died then in 1798. 
Any attention given this matter will be greatly appreciated by me.
Yours respectfully, 
Mrs. Sydney J. Bowie,
(Per C. L. Barnett)

Please address your reply to this Ce. L. Barnett.
1123-13th St. N W 
City
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Petersburg, Va., Feb. 1, 1929

To the
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:
Please send me from the records in your office any data you have concerning Charles Wingfield, Charles Wingfield, jr., John Wingfield and Matthew Wingfield, all of Albemarle County, Virginia, who were in the Continental Army. 
Also the service record of John Buster who we believe enlisted in the Continental Army from Augusta or Albemarle County. 
Very respectfully, 
Lynda B. Wingfield

Address:
Mrs. Herbert Wingfield,
337 Royal Oak Ave.,
Colonial Heights, 
Petersburg, Va. 

PENSION 
FEB 4
U. S. 
1929
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Rev.&1812 Wars section

January 21, 1926

Mrs. William deL. Worsley
Columbus, Box 1204
Georgia

Madam:
I have to advise you that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unlese a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of Captain John Wingfield, Senior, referred to in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 11714, John Wingfield, Junior, the history of which was furnished you on November 14, 1925, and is the history of the only soldier by that name found on said records. 

Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.
November 14, 1925.
Mrs. Wm. de L. Worsley,
Columbus,
Ga. Box 1204.
Madam;
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 11714, it appears that Mary Wingfield applied for pension, June 16, 1845, while a resident of Wilkes County, Georgia,
aged seventy-nine years, and alleged that her husband, John Wingfield, Jr., while residing in Hanover County, Virginia, volunteered the beginning of the War and served five years as a private in
Captain John Wingfield, Sr.'s Virginia Company, and was in the battle of Ninety-Six.
She stated that Captain John Wingfield, Sr. was a cousin of her husband, John Wingfield, Jr.
The claim was not allowed, as she failed to establish satisfactory proof of service as alleged.
It also appears in said claim, that soldier
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married July 4, 1787 in Wilkes County, Georgia, Mary (Polly) Daracott (Derracott). 
Soldier died January 15, 1802 in Wilkes County, Georgia. 

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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O. W. and N. Division
3 - 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.,

SSS6
R. 11714
Rev. Mar.

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of John Wingfield Jr., a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK/ OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED | STATE

Hanover Co. Va Beginning Mar dis later 1781
1781 | 5 YEARS | Pvt. | *John Wingfield Sr. / Va
*Cousin

Battles engaged in, Ninety-six
Residence of Soldier at enlistment, Hanover Co., Va
Date of widow application for pension, June 15, 1845.
Residence at date of application, Wilkes Co., Va
Age at date of application, 79 yrs.

Remarks: 
Sol. marr. July 4, 1787 Polly Mary Daracott in Wilkes. Co., Ga. 
Sol. died Jany 15, 1802 in Wilkes Co. Ga. 
This claim was rejected on the ground of claimants failure to establish satisfac proof of service as alleged.
Very respectfully, 

Only
Commissioner.

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