Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9891, Joseph Williams, N.C.
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N.C.
Williams, Joseph
Sarah 
W. 9891
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Date of widow’s death not on AB

8746
Missouri
Sarah Williams, widow of Joseph Williams, NC, who was a private in the revolution
Husband died 5th January [1820]
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 40 dollars cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843

Certificate of pension issued the 25th day of August, 1847 and sent to [] Present

Recorded in book A, volume 2, page 235
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In the name of God Amen

I Joseph Williams of the county  of  [illegible]
and Territory of Missouri being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the Mortality of the body, that it is appointed for all men once to die, have made constituted and appointed this my last will and Testament that is to say first of all I give my Soul to God who gave it to me nothing Doubting but in the morning of the resurrection I shall receive the same again and I also leave my body in the hands of my Executors to be buryed [sp] in a Decent Christian Manner. 
And as to the good things of time that God has blessed me with I do give of in the following manner, to wit first I give to my Beloved Wife, Sarah Willliams the plantation where I now live during her natural life and also all and singular all the goods and chattels that I now possess second I have given and granted to my oldest son James Williams forty {illegible} of land off of the land I now live upon I also give to son Lewis Williams forty ??? adjoining this land that I gave to my son Jas Williams an the same line then the rest of my land after my Death and the Death of my Wife to be equally divided amongst my other four suns to Micajah Williams,
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John Williams, and Franklin Williams, and after my death and the death of my wife Sarah Williams I give to my three daughters that is to say Mary Williams, Olivia Williams, and Annabella Williams, all and singular the stock, that is horses cattle sheep and hogs together with all the household furniture all to be equally divided among them.

[Offering] my [land] will and testament I have signed with my hand and sealed with my seal this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

Signed and sealed once (signed)
Acknowledging in presence of 

(Signature) Joseph Williams (Seal)

Thos. R. 
Thos. Denton
Francis McNutt

Territory of Missouri
County of St. Louis
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State of Missouri }
County of Cole }
On this twenty first of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before the under signed William Scott Judge of circuit court within and for the State and county aforesaid who hereby certifies that from informally of body Sarah Williams who is mentioned below as an applicant for a pension cannot attend court. The said Sarah Williams a resident of the county of Cole and the State of Missouri aged about eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 1836. That she is the widow of Joseph Williams who was a private in the militia in the State of North Carolina That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated: That he entered the service in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven under Captain William Newell and Colonel James Miller. At the time he said Joseph Williams first entered the service the said