Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 19064, Andrew Witty, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Witty, Andrew

NUMBER
R.19064

CONTENTS
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State of Indianna
County of Clay SS
Be it known that
before me I.M. Compton
a Justice of the
Peace in and for the County of
Clay and the State aforesaid
duly qualified and Autherised
to Administer Oaths SS
personally appeared Amelia R.
Gillispie and William Witty who
first being sworn according to
Law and under Oath that they
are Son & Daughter and legal
heirs and Representatives of
Andrew Witty and who was a
resident and who resided at
the Township of ___ County and
County of Gilford State & State of North
Carolina and who was a Soldier
and private of the Revolutionary
War of the Continental Army &
who entered said war on or about
the 25th day of June 1773.
and who drafted volunteered & or
Enlisted as the case may be and
as may more fully be proven by
the Company Rolls and the muster
rolls at the Department of the
Interior at the City of Washington
said Applicant aver and affirm
that their Father was a Resident
of Rockingham County State of
North Carolina and that he
reside at Rockingham about
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Six years previous to his death &
that he died at Rockingham in the
aforementioned State of North Carolina
& that he died on the Sixth
day of May 1819 and who previous
thereto he resided at the County
of Gilford and State of North Carolina
& who was a private soldier
to the Militia State Troops of the
County of Gilford and North 
Carolina and who served in
said War before mentioned the
time of his engagement six years
that or during said War as
the case may be and served out
the hole period of the Time
of his Enlistment or engagement
and was honorably Discharged
Said Amelia E. Gillespie and Wm
Witty Applicants make this Application 
that they may obtain the 
pension money that may be due &
owing them as heirs at Law &
the Legal Representatives of Andrew
Witty a Soldier of the
Revolutionary Army and the
Continental War and was
as above Stated and who died
and leaving his right to a pension
from the United States unobtained
and who leaving a surviving
Widow Lucretia Widow
Witty who survived her
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Said husband and who lived &
Survived her said Husbands
Death Eighteen years and who
was also entitled to a pension
under the present & existing
Laws of Congress giving revolutionary 
Soldier Deceased & Leaving
Surviving widows a pension
whos[sic] pensions are to take afect[sic]
at the date of the Death of their
said husband and who was
& have been Entitled 18 years back 
pay of the pension money that
now [illegible] to the legal heirs
said Andrew Witty & to his
said widow which now owing
to the Said Amealia R. Gilispie
and Wm Witty Applicants
Said Applicants claiming
all that may be due under the
act that might have been
passed by Congress granting
Pensions to Revolutionary
Soldiers & officers a pension
under Act of Congress passed
the 18 day of March 1818 or
any other acts that might
have been passed by Congress
giving and granting pensions
to Certain officers & Soldiers
their widows & Children of
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of Revolutionary officers & Soldiers
of the War of the Revolution
and the said Applicant
makes this application claiming
under acts of Congress
before mentioned and any other
act Granting unto Soldiers &
widows of Soldiers who have
died leaving widows pensions
and as well claiming under
act of 3 February Second
Section passed By the
House of Congress Claiming
8 years pension money that
has due & owing to Andrew Witty
& said money not having been paid
to the said Andrew Witty & 18.
years that was not paid to the
Widow of said Andrew Witty
the said Amealia R. Gillespie &
Wm Witty Applicants also claiming
18 years amount of pension
money that was due in eight
of Andrew Wittys life and not
having been paid unto the said
Widow in her life time and
the said Amealia R. Gillespie
and Wm Witty.
hereby nominate and appoint
John F. Paige my True & Lawful
Attorney for me and in
my name to do [illegible] as [illegible]
[illegible] from the officers of the
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Government of the United States
and my said Attorney is hereby
Authorised & Empowered
to Constitute and Appoint
and as [illegible] Substitutes as Attorneys
under him & I do hereby Empower
my Said Attorney with the power
of Substitution & Revocation & with
full Authority to demand and
collect the amount of Pension
money Due [illegible] to Andrew
Witty and his Said widow
Locricha [sic] Witty and not having been
paid unto him as Revolutionary
Soldier and we do hereby grant
unto our Said Attorney full power
to ask demand of the Government
officers of the Department of
the Interior or at Washington City
and all Lawful Acts as fully
as I my self could do were I personally
present my self at the doing
thereof for the purpose above
mentioned and Expressed and
we do hereby Authorise and Empower
our Said Attorney to obtain
from the proper Authorities at
Washington City or else where
Certified Copies of any Army or
navy records or Documents [illegible]
which his said service may be
Recorded & to procure any and
all other Evidences that may
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be nessary[sic] to Establish his or her claim
or claims as fully as he or she
could do if personally present
and hereby revoking & Countermanding 
all former Authority
that may have been given by
me previous for the Above
Special & Specific purpose
given under our hand & Seal &
Seals this 19th day of June 1860

Emmelia R. Gillespie {S.S.}
attest
I M Compton
The whom subscribed to
and sworn to this 19th day of
June 1860. Isaac M. Compton J.P. {seal}

Personally
appeared Amalia R. Gillispie
and Subscribed to the foregoing
Declaration and acknowledged
the foregoing Power of Attorney
to be her own and free act and
Deed & Subscribed to the same
before me for the purpose above
named and Expressed
Witness my hand and seal this 19th
day of June 1860 Isaac M Compton J.P.
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And are the same day personally
Appeared before me
Edwin H. Parsley
Elizabeth Parsley
Residents of the County of Clay
& State of Indiana aforesaid
to me personally known and
who I State to be credible witnesses
who being duly Sworn
according to law declare that
they are personally acquainted 
with Amelia L Gillispie & Wm
Witty who having made and
Subscribed to the foregoing
Declaration that they were
present and saw them & her subscribe
his or her names or name
to the foregoing declaration &
from the Appearance of the
Applicants of their acquaintance
with them and that they believe them
to be the Individuals & identical
person or persons they represent
him or her self to be that they are
disinterested in this Claim &
that they Reside at the place
above named
Edwin H Parsley
Elizabeth Parsley
Witness [illegible]
The above Subscribed to & sworn to
before me this 19th day of June 1860
Isaac M Compton J.P. {seal}
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And I certify that I have
no interest in Said claim
and that I have not cause
and to its prosecution &
further I certify that I know
the Affiants to be credible
Witnesses & that the Declarants
is the persons they Represent
themselves to be
June 19, 1860 Isaac N Compton J.P.

State of Indiana 
County of Clay ss
I John C. Major Clerk of the Clay Circuit Court do hereby
certify that Isaac M. Compton Esquire, before whom the foregoing
affidavits were made was at the time of so doing
a justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned
and sworn and that his signatures thereto are
genuine And further that I am not interested in said
Claim as attorney or otherwise
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
this 21st day of June A.D. 1860
John C. Major Clerk.
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Acts of July 15, 1862 and March 9, 1879 [crossed out]

19064.

P. O. Witty
Andrew Witty
Service: Rev.
Enlisted:
Discharged:
[stamp] REJECTED

Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized. Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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No 39.166
Andrew Witty, deceased
Indiana.

John F Paige, July 17 /60

Act June 7, 1832
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[envelope]

FREE

War Department
To The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia

[stamped]
District of Columbia
JUL 2 1860

[stamped]
Brazil Ind
June 28
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Brazil June 23rd 1860
To the Commissioner of Pensions
DC Sir I
herewith Enclose the Declaration
of Amealia R Gilispie applicant
who being heir at law & Representative
of Andrew Witty who was
a Revolutionary Soldier of the N.C
State and the said Amealia R.
Gillispie being entitled to all
that may be her right as heir as well
her Br. Wm Witty and I have to
State to you that I wish you
to forward to her any thing personally
that may be Due the heirs and
Set fourth the said Applicants
Declaration & the your report
[illegible] Please Address [illegible]
[illegible] Post Office Address it
at Brazil Post Office Clay
County State of Indiana
John F. Paige Atty
for Claimant