Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,594, John Williams, Va.
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Service Va. 
Forsyth Co., Ga
Williams, John
Number R. 11,594

Contents
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34688 
Declaration of Jn. Williams 
of Georgia- act 7 June 1832 

Hm. W.G. Dawson 
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Declaration of John Williams 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the --- of June 1832 

State of Georgia 
--- the Country 

On this the twenty seventh day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty 
eight previously appeared in open court 
John Williams a resident in the Town of Cumming Forsyth county in said state of Georgia 
a god eighty six years two months and twenty seven days who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 That he enlisted in the army of the United State the second day of December in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six with Captain John Wilson (the day and year of his enlistment to the best of his recollection) and under the command of Colonel Henry Dickson commanding the Sixth Regiment of the line to the best of his recollection he says he served four months as orderly Serjant and entered the service as such and then promoted to the rank of Ensign in the said Company commanded by the said John Wilson Capt. and received his commission as Ensign of said company in the State of Virginia Halifax County and in the same county where he enlisted and says he served under the following named officers, Viz
The names of the Captains was John Wilson the rest of the company officers he does not recollect the names of the
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Colonel commanding the regiment was Henry Dickson. The names of the other field officers he has forgotten save the Generals Davidson and Sumpter Davidson's rank and grade he has forgotten he says Sumpter was Brigadier General. he says the names of two of his messmates were by the names of William Barker & William Gregory. Gregory was the cook of the mess. he says he does not recollect the time he left the service precisely but says it was in the year Charleston (South Carolina) was taken by the British. he says he served under but one term of enlistment it being the period of five years being the term of enlistment. Says he resided in the State of Virginia in Halifax County where he entered the service. Says he was in two engagements One the Battle of Ransoms Mill (illegible) on the South fork of the Catawba River the other Sumpters (illegible) on the bank of (illegible) River. He states that he marched through a part of Virginia & North Carolina and entered South Carolina in Spartanburg District and thence through (illegible) and York Districts of said State. Last (Illegible) to the (illegible) where Sumpter was defeated and thence up into the territory called the State of Tennessee. saw where the Whites were (illegible) in Gaston County. Charles Robertson commanded the fort and says that at that place he received his discharge. He says he received his commission from Col. Dickson as aforesaid and was discharged by Captain Wilson. he says he had lost both his discharge and commission and cannot find either of them. He hereby relinquishes
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every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he claims that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.

O.H. Kenan

I William H. Ray Clerk of the Superior court of Forsyth County and State of Georgia as aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Williams for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (illegible additions written above) this the  27th day of August 1838.

Wm. H. Roy Clerk S.G.
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S. Cole
Dear Sir
I send you several certificates and other proof going to Substantiate the claims of John Williams to a pension. Which claim is now contended for by his son & heir Hiram Williams. 
I have not deemed it necessary to digest said proof into a Declaration but if it should be necessary you will please return with form of Declaration Required and I will do so. But I suppose this will be sufficient to prove the declaration already before the pension office in the name of John Williams. Please examine these papers and let me hear your disposition of them as soon as possible. yours Respectfully
A. Dillard atty for
Hiram Williams

Hiram Williams Auditors office Richmond
Dear Sir, July 16th 1855.
In reply to your letter of the 10th Instant I herewith enclose you a military Certificate in the name of John Williams as a Sergt. Infy. in the war of the Revolution - On searching the Rolls of Officers both of the State & Continental lines I failed to find his name as Ensign. - As to fees I have only to say that any service rendered by this office to old revolutionary worthies or their representatives is without fee or reward.
In haste,
yours very Respectfully
Porterfield A. Heiskill
2nd. Clerk
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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 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, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st January 1777 to 31st December 1781, (See Hening's Statutes at Large, Vol. 10, p. 462,) that a settlement was made on the 20th day of March 1783 in the name of John Williams as Sergt. Infy and evidence of the indebtedness of the State to him for L128,,14,, delivered to Col. John Gibson but as the original settlements or copies thereof are not to be found in this Office, the term of service embraced therein cannot be stated
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 16th day of July 1855
NO SEAL OF OFFICE. G. W. Chilton
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State of North Carolina
Rutherford County

Personally appeared before me Robt G Purtty a Justice of the peace in and for said county David Gray aged seventy two years a very respectable man and after being duly sworn says he was well aquainted with John Williams. That he Williams resided in one mile of the affiant and his family from the year seventeen hundred and ninety five untill he left and went to the state of Georgia in Eighteen Hundren and thirty three or four. He knows nothing of the marriage of John Williams and wife but they were recognized as man and wife by all their neighbors and raised a respectable family. Mrs. John Williams died and was buried in the neighborhood. I have often heard my father James Gray who was a Revolutionary Soldier and a pensioner at his death speak of John Williams being a soldier in the Revolutionary War and other old people also I know Northerup

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State of Georgia 
Monroe County
Personally come before James Norris a Justice of the peace in and for said county, Elizebeth Gray who being duly sworn according to law saying on oath that she is the daughter of John Williams deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the war declared by the United States on the fourth day of July 1776, and that she and Hiram Williams is the only two living heirs of the said John Williams deceased and to the best of her knowledge and information her father John Williams was married some time in the year 1769 in Casewell County in the State of North Carolina and that her father John Williams died on the 7th day of October 1840 and her Mother Elisebeth Williams wife of John Wilaims deceased died on the 25th day of March 1795. Sworn to and Subscribed before me 
September 25th 1855
{signed}
Elizabeth Gray
James Norris
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State of Georgia
Monroe County
Personally come before me James Norris a Justice of the peace in and for said county, Joseph Gray who being duly sworn sayeth on oath that he has been acquainted with John Williams deceased for forty years and that he knew him to be an honest moral and upright mand and that he has no doubt of his being a Revolutionary soldier and that he believes that Elizabeth Gray and Hiram Williams is the only two living children of the said John Williams deceased Sworn to and subscribed before me September 25th 1855
{signed}
Joseph Gray
James Norris

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The State of Alabama
Macon County
 On this 10th day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me the undersigned of the county Justice of the peace for said county and State aforesaid Thomas Clower who being duly deposeth saith that he is with Elizabeth Gray the sister of Hiram Williams whose name is now beofre the Department for a pension. Officiant says that he has been acquainted with Elizabeth Gray and has been for the last thirty years and believes her to be a woman of good character and her evidence should be good in a court of Justice. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of September 1855
{signed}
Thomas Clower
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I Spence M Grayson hereby certify that the foresigned affadavit was signed before me on the day and year above written- and I know afficant to be a credible person

{signed}
SM Grayson

The State of Alabama
Russell County

Personally appeared before me, an acting Justice of the Pease in the afore said county state, H F. Williams who being duly sworn deposes and says that he was personally in the city of Columbus and State of Georia in the month of October in the year 1840 and on the day on which John Williams a Revolutionally Soldier died, that he saw said John Williams die in that month and year and in said place. and that Hiram Willams his son was present on that occasion. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of August AD 1855
{signed}
H.F. Williams
W T. Lacy

Georgia
Spalding County
Personally appeared before me David H Johnson a Justice of the Peace in and fore said county Elizabeth Pitts who being duly sworn diposeth and saith that she has been acquainted personally with Elizabeth Gray of Monroe County and Hiram Williams of Auburn Alabama and that they are the lawful children of Hohn Williams with whom she has been acquainted for the last forty years to the time of his death and
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Georgia
Spalding County
Personally appeared before me, David H Johnson, a justice of the peace in and for said county, Elizabeth Pitts who being duly sworn diposeth and saith that she has been acquainted personally with Elizabeth Gray of Monroe County and Hiram Williams of Auburn Alabama and that they are the lawful children of John Williams with whom she has been acquainted for the last forty years to the time of his death and that said John Williams was always accounted as an honest and truthfull man and that I always understood that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. 

Sworn to all cc Subscribed
before me this 28th, Aug 1838

{signed}
DH Johnson
Elizabeth Pitts
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Of his marriage or services only by the statement of others. He further states that Hiram Williams the son of John Williams lived with him eleven years commencing when Hiram was quite a youth say seven or 8 years old and left him about the year eighteen hundred and eleven. Sworn and subscribed before me this 30 of August 1855

Robt G Turtty
David Gray

I am well acquainted with Mrs McClain. SHe is a very old but very respectable woman. Her mother and John William wife were aisters and I have the utmost confidence in the statement of her and David Gray and recollect old John Williams and his son Hiram Williams myself

Robt G. Turtty
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State of Georgia I Willis Currey
Monroe County Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby Certify that James Norris whose genuine Signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit was at the time of signing the same a justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to administer oaths that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and Credit and that the foregoing is in due form of Law. 
Given under my hand and Seal of office at Forsyth Monroe County Georgia this 25th day of September 1855
Willis Currey
Clk SC
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Auburn Ala.
June 13 /56

Mr. Cole, 
Dear Sir,
I sent you last Oct, about ten certificates and affidavits- requesting you to say wether they were sufficient or not. I never received your answer until lately- owing to it being missent- You did not mention anything (?) these proof of my fatheres marriage and death and also his surviving children. That is all the proof I can furnish at present in the case. You mention his certificate from Virginia did not serve to the (?). He expressly says in his declaration that he first joined that Virginia lines, and served for months as orderly sergeant which corresponds with the Virginia (?). He afterwards was promoted to ensign and served in Nor. and Sou. Carolina with  several I am able to produce. But if the balance of every proof are not sufficient it is not worth while to furnish you
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with certificate from No and sum cas
Please sir examine John Wiliams declaration sent from Coming Give I think in the year 36,, I have been writing from Anbrue for him or three years past, in which herein there has been several clerks which has not seen al the papers I wish you to carefully examine all the papers I have sent, and state to me if the claim will be allowed to me, if further service is prefered I can send them as they stand on the list of Cashnu. Please answer a soon as possible
very respct
Hiram Williams
Mr. Cole
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34,688
John Williams
Georgia
Hon WC Dawson 23 Jan. 1839
H Williams 23 Dec. 1854
A Gray 14 Feb 1853
A Dillard October 5 1855
October 27 1853
Hon J H Jun 17 /56
Hiram Williams Jun 26 /56
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Auburn Ala Dec 15th 1854
Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir I wish you to examine the pension Claim of John Williams of North Carolina, a revolutionary soldier who died in 1840. He made application for it in 1836 I think, but owing to some deficiency in it he did not draw anything and so the matter rested until, about two years ago, a letter from the pension office was addressed to John Williams or his heirs. I as one of his heirs, employed W M, Varnum to get the pension if it could be done. He has done nothing towards it yet, if he has I do not know it as he never writes to me what he is doing.
I wish you to inform me whether this pension can be obtained or not and how to proceed with the business, also what his Claim amounts to. John Williams at the time of his application was living at Crumming Forsyth County Geo. and the claim was made out by a man by a name of Gaskilly.
Address Hiram Williams
Auburn
Ala.
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Griffin Georgia Feby 5th 1855
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir permit
me to make a few enquiries of you and
that you may be prepared to refer to the records and subject matter of these enquiries I will make a few statements of the case
Some six or eight probably more or less years ago my Grandfather John Williams a revolutionary soldier then residing in Cumming in Forsyth County State of Georgia employed an attorney to make out his claim for a Pension
as a revolutionary soldier which was forwarded to your office and nothing more was hear
of the case as my Grand-father removed
out of that County and a year or two after
died in Columbers Gas untill some time
in the year 1853 when two letters were written
to him (John Williams) from your office or
some person in Washington saying the pension could be got if applied for by my
Grand-father or his proper representatives I
have been informed that the letters written to
John Williams were need by one of his
Grand-daughters who resided in Cumming
and were placed in the hands of an attorney
to look into the claim in the latter part of
the year 1853. I saw this attorney who told me
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that it would be necessary to get a power of
attorney from my mother who with my uncle
Hiram Williams are the only living children of my Grandfather since that time
I have written to the attorney several times
and the only reply he makes to me is that the
Pension cannot be obtained
I wish therefore after this explanation to
be informed whether the pension has ever
been obtained if so by whom and how
long since if it has not been got what
steps are requisite to be taken to obtain it
as you took the trouble of writing to [ineligible] 
to my Grand father I have been of the opin
in all the while that the pension could
be obtained notwithstanding the declarations
of the attorney to the contrary and to settle
this thing definitely I have taken the priviledge
of addressing you this communication at
the suggestion of my old friend Mr Gary
Grice of our place who informs me that
he has frequently had answer from your
Department on matters connected with your
office
Very Respectfully yours
A Gray
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John Williams of Georgia 
34688 - Oct 1839 
This letter to Haim W.C. Dawn 

Georgia 
Ya 

H. Williams 23. Dec. 1854 
A. Gray 14 Feb. 1855. 
A dillan Oct 5 1833

Act 7th June 1832
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Hon. S. P. Waldo             Washington Dec. 5 1854
Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir. 
I enclose herewith two certifications
support of the claim of the heir of John Williams Sergent of ? in the Virginia Constitutional Troops to the file  with the papers now on file in your office and respectfully request that the claim may be taken up and examined at your earliest
convenience. 

Very respectfully yours 
R W Bates
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 

                                        Rejected 

P.O. John Williams 

Service: 

Enlisted:                                                               18

Discharged:                                                         18

Application field:                                                  18

Alleges: 

Re-enlisted: 

Attorney: 

P.O. 

Recognized, contract, Cert. of Dis., Searched for
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Aubourn Sept, 17th 55
L.P. Waldon 
Dear Sir 
In a committee 
Thorn Received by Hiram Williams the 23rd 
7 December 1854 from you with regardTo a peu river that he was there Reening 
to obtain as the orphan of this Fathers John Williams you States that John 
Williams had made out a declaration 
and applied for a peu river but for 
the event of evidence he had failed to 
Haim A. Hiram Williams the you of John Williams is now amazing to collect Coincidence Deficient to obtain that peu river
and the Rights of his deceased Father, may they therefore and obtaining you is To Ask you to forvarced to my and addreyo the original Declaration of 
John Williams is to the found your office as we think of will 
be the measure of our arriving at many importanct facts. Your early compliance
with this will much oblige me and perhaps will be the means of greatly
depicting an old and worthy man. 

Yours Respectfully 
A, Dillard 

My advance in Auburn Macon County
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Felia by P N Beta 
Dec. 6. 1854
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This is to Certifty, That us appears from a list in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line 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, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st of January 1777 to 31st December 1781, (See Hening's Statues at Large, Vol. 10, p. 462,) that a settlement was made on the 20th day of March 1783 in the name of John Nilliams as....[UNKNOWN] and evidence of the indeptedness of the State to him for [UNKNOWN] delivered to Geo In. Gibson but as the original settlements or copies thereof are not to be found in this Office, the term of service embraced therein cannot be stated

Given under my hand, at the First Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 14th day of November 1854.

{No Seal of Office} G. N. Clutter
Am. P. Aech
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File by R N Beta 
Dec. 6: 1854
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This is to Certifty, That us appears from a list in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia State Line 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, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st of January 1777 to 31st December 1781, (See Hening's Statues at Large, Vol. 10, p. 462,) that a settlement was made on the 17th day of August 1784 in the name of John Nilliams as....[UNKNOWN] and evidence of the indeptedness of the State to him for [UNKNOWN] delivered to J.R. Broadhead Jr but as the original settlements or copies thereof are not to be found in this Office, the term of service embraced therein cannot be stated 

Given under my hand, at the First Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 14th dat of November 1854. 

{No Seal of Office}  G. N. Clutter 
                                            Am. P. Aech
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[Unknown Name] 
Dec 6. 1854
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This is to Certifty, That us appears from a list in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia State Line 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, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st of January 1777 to 31st December 1781, (See Hening's Statues at Large, Vol. 10, p. 462,) that a settlement was made on the 10th day of May 1783 in the name of John Nilliams as....[UNKNOWN] and evidence of the indeptedness of the State to him for [UNKNOWN] delivered to Sam C. Ford but as the original settlements or copies thereof are not to be found in this Office, the term of service embraced therein cannot be stated

Given under my hand, at the First Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 14th dat of November 1854.

{No Seal of Office} G. N. Clutter
Am. P. Aech
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House of Representation 
18. Jan. 1839. 

Sir, I evaluate you the claim of John Williams 
Did me hear from you soon---

Respectfully 
Young Davion