Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10839, Philip Higdon, N.C.
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Higdon, Philip 
S10839
Born in NC
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La circular and letter to pens D T Mardo 1838. 
Letter to William Dickson Hurd of Audeton 8 nov 1839. 
Paid at the treasury under Act of the April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1839. Agt Hadefred
7 Dec 1839
To  agt 20 dec 1839 
To Huntsville Alabama from 4 March 1839 to February 1840. 
Notification to William Dickson, Buzzard Roost Ala. 
Pensioner 24 June 1840 paid above from March to 4 Sep 1839. Agt. Notified 20th Aug 1840
Huntsville (Georgia struck through) Ala 29.615 
Philip Higdon of Madison in the state of Georgia who was a pr. In the (blank) commander by captain (blank) of the rev commande by C Lythe in the N. Car line for 9 months. 
Inscribed on the roll of Georgia in the rate of 30 dollars - cents for annum on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of pension issued the 23 day of Jan:35 and such hon. A. S. Clayton. H. R. Arrears to the 4th of Sept 30 105.00. Semiani. Allowance ending 4th Mar 15.00. $120-  revolutionary claim, act June 7 1832. Recorded by Nath Rice clerk. Book 3 vol. 6 page 92.
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
received from GAO
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Huntsville, Alabama. October 27, 1840 
Received of B.M. Lowe, Agent for paying pension
twenty seven dollars & 82 cent in [ilegible] being for Eleven
months & 4 days pension due to me the widow of Philip
Higdon, a Revolutionary pensioner deceased from the 4
of September 1839
to the 8 day of August 1840 the
day of his death for which I have signed duplicate receipts Original
Rebecca Higdon
$27.82
by her atty in fact
D. B. Turner
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Georgia Madison County On this twelth day of December 1834 personally
 appeared in open court
before the the Justices of the
Inferior Court for said County Court  and [illegible] of the court of Ordinary
Philip Higdon, a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged eighty years
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he entered the service of the
United States under the following named officers and served [illegible]
stated That in the month of October 1789 he volunteered for a
three months tour in Charleston South Carolina & rendezvous'd
at Chatham Court House n. Carolina from which place he marched in a company of Militia commanded by one Capt George Hearn
and [illegible]  Douglass to Charleston, arrived at Charleston & principally
served in working on the fortifications preparatory to an expected attack from Sir
Henry Clinton, that after serving out his
three months tour he was about to start home & met other detachments of
 Militia coming in from other quarters to take their place
when [illegible] substituted to served another three months
tour in said City in the place of one Philip Brantly whose [illegible]
commanded by one Capt Blecher & whose Ensign (not recollecting the Lieutenant) was by the name of  Cato Riddle [illegible]
states that the Militia were apointed with regular Troops in working on
the entrenchments & other defenses,  the whole were commanded by
Genl Lincoln & recollects to have heard of & seen among the
troops a Col Lytle & his Brother, a Captain, a Col Armstrong a Col
Malberdy- that after serving out this last mentioned
tour of three months he was discharged & rec'd a discharge from
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Col. Armstrong, which is lost- Shortly after he left Charles Lee he heard that I surrendered to the British-deponent then with a number of the discharged Militia made their way for home and in the first part of June 1780 at Salisbury he & others again volunteered for another three months term to serve against the Tories who in Consequence of the fall of Charles Lee had suddenly risen up in the Country for the purpose of overrunning North Carolina-  that one Genl or Col. ____ was in command & deponent thinks & believes, he was attached to a company commanded by one Johnson, who, as well as deponent now ___, was a regular Capt. & his reason for thinking so is that he marched his company towards South Carolina & in August, joined Genl Gates near Camdin [Camden] & was attached to the regulars- deponent states that he was in the battle which terminated in ___ Gates' defeat & had a brother shot down by his side- In his retreat on his way home he & a number of other militia men, among whom were a Col Knowls & a Lieutenant Hackney, were taken prisoner by the Tories Command by a Doct. Pyles, an old man, who was a Col & his son a Major- that while prisoner, marching with the Tories they were overtaken by Col Lee & a battle understandably commenced & the prisoners & Tories, being all in the same company the  slaughter was indiscriminate, I count of the prisoners were killed among their number was the unfortunate Col Knowls- the Tories were routed & many of them killed & deponent  & those prisoners that escaped were retaken. He has no documentary testimony, nor does he know of any one, by whose testimony he can prove the above swore, He hereby relinquishes his every ^ claim whatever to a pension or amnesty
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except the present, and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State-- In answer to the Interrogatories required by the War Department he States 

1st.2nd. He was born in Chatham County N.C. 1754, month not known as he has no record of his age  

3d was living in Chatham County N. C. lived there four years after the War
 then moved to Georgia now lives in Madison County of Said State  

4 He volunteered in his first &amp; third tour &amp; substituted in the second 

5th. He was with regular troops both in Charleston &amp; at Gates' defeat they &amp; has Mr Joseph Saunders John Lester and mentioned all the names of
officers recollected in the body of his declaration 

6th. He recd a discharge at Charleston from one Col Armstrong but it is lost

7th He mentions the names of Joseph Saunders, John Lester Senior and Samuel
Williford and William M. Lane who will testify to his veracity &amp; good behavior &amp; their belief of his services but not their knowledge of them

Philip   Higden
his    X    mark

Sworn to &amp; subscribed in open Court
the day &amp; year aforesaid before us


Wittnesses

John Meroney J.J.C.
Robert Groves J.J.C.

We Joseph Sanders  <strike>John Lester Lot &amp;</strike> Samuel Williford &amp; William M. Lane citizens, (the late residence of the applicant in his present neighborhood rendering it out of his power to procure a Clergyman acquainted with him
to certify as required) residing in Madison County, Geo, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Philip Higdon who has subscribed &amp; sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 80 years of age, that he is reputed &amp; believed in the neighborhood where he resides
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to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Joseph Sanders  X his mark
 Sam Willeford
William M Lam 

And the said Court do hereby certify & declare their opinion, after
the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented
by the War department that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & of his state . And the Court further certifies 
that it appears to them that Joseph  Sanders,  Saml Willeford and Wm  Lam who have signed the preceding certificate and duty in 
 Madison County and are credible persons their statement is entitled to credit 
[illegible signatures and initials]
Robert Graves
I William Sanders Clerk of the Inferior Court sitting as a Court
of ordinary for Madison County do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of Philip Higdon for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of
office this twelfth
day of December
in the year of our Lord 1834
William Sanders [illegible]
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Application For a Transfer
County of Franklin State of Alabama
On the 10th day of August 1839. before me there stands a Justice of the Peace for the S. County of Franklin personally appeared Phillip Higdon who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Lytle in the Regiment Commanded by Col Lytle in the service of the United States That this name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Georgia from where he has totally removed. That he now resides in the state of Alabama Franklin County where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there Payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the state of Georgia to the State of Alabama. His only son is removed from the state of Georgia to the State of Alabama and having no relatives left behind and wishes to accompany his son. 
Sworn + subscribed to before me the day and year aforementioned 
x His mark Phillip Higdon
James Williams
Wm. Dickson
John P. Lamb
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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State of Alabama
Franklin County Ss

Be it known, that before me, James Williams a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Rebecca Higdon, and made oath, in due form of law, that she is the widow of Philip Higdon, deceased, the identical person, who was a pensioner, and is now dead, and to whom a Certificate of Pension was issued of which the following is a true copy: "War Department. Revolutionary Claim. I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, after 7th June 1832, Philip Higdon, of the State of Georgia who was a private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to reclaim thirty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 23 day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.

[signature] Mahlon Dickerson,
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
  J.L. Edwards
    Commissioner of Pensions"
  that this deceased Pensioner resided in said County of Franklin in the State of Alabama for the span of about three years before his death and that previous thereto he resided in the State of Georgia.
Subscribed and sworn this 17th day of October in the year of Our Lord 1820 before me,
[left column]
[signature] James Williams J.P.
[signature] witnessed by Henry Mays
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[right column]
[signature] 
x her mark Rebecca Higdon 
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Known  all men, by these presents, that if, Rebecca Higdon, widow of Philip Higdon, deceased, of Franklin County in the State of Alabama the said Philip Higdon, being in his life time a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Daniel B. Turner, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to reclaim from the Agent of the United States, for paying pensions in the Town of [illegible] in the State of Ala-
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bama, the balance of said pension from the fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty seven to the eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty, being the day of his death.
Witness my hand and seal, this 17th day of October eighteen hundred and forty.

x her mark
Rebecca Higdon
[hand drawn seal] seal

drafted and delivered in presences of
[signature] AC Barton
[signature] W. Dickson

State of Alabama
Franklin County Ss

Be it known that on the 17th day of October eighteen hundred and forty, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared the above named Rebecca Higdon, widow of Philip Higdon, deceased, and acknowledged the forgoing power of attorney to be her act and deed.
  In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this day and year above mentioned.
[Signature] James Williams, Justice of Peace

State of Alabama
Franklin County SS.
I Michael Dickson, clerk of the County Court of said County, do certify that James Williams is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereto write my name and affix the seal of said County Court, and Office, in [illegible], this [illegible] day of October [illegible] eighteen hundred and forty.
[signature] Michael Dickson Clerk
Franklin
County Court, Franklin County, Alabama.

State of Alabama
Franklin County Ss.
I, Joseph Meredith, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County aforesaid, hold on at Russelville in and for said County of Franklin, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Philip Higdon was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of thirty dollars
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per annum; was a resident of the County of Franklin in the State of Alabama
 and died in the County and State aforesaid, on the eighth day of 
August, Eighteen hundred and forty, that he left a widow whose name is Rebeca [illegible] In Testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my
name and affix my seal of office, at office, in
the Town of Russelville, this 23rd day of October
A.D. eighteen hundred and forty
J.C. Meredith Clerk
Court of Franklin County, Ala.
State of Alabama
Madison County
Be it known that on the 27th day of
October eighteen hundred and forty,
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County
personally appeared Daniel B Turner, the Attorney named in the
foregoing power of Attorney and made oath that the reason was not
given him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension
or arrears of pension therein authorized to be received by him
Sworn and subscribed the day and
year last above mentioned before
Jno. B Eldridge J.P. 
D. B. Turner
I, Richard B. Purdom, Clerk of the County Court of Madison
County in the State of Alabama; do hereby certify that Jno. B Eldridge
is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature professing to be his , is genuine. 
In Testimony whereof [illegible} untosubscribe my name and affix the seal of said  County Court  at Office in [illegible] this 
27th day of October A.D. eighteen hundred and forty. 
Rich.B. Purdom
Clerk
[illegible] Court of Madison County 
Alabama 
hundred forty
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER 
Received form GAO
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The State of Alabama  
Franklin County 
On this the 20th day of  April 1840, personally appeared before me John A. Noor
Judge of the County Court of said County
Philip Higdon 
a resident of the County &
State aforesaid aged
80 years who being first duly
Sworn according to the 
 law doth on his
oath make the following declaration 
 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7, 1832.  That he entered
the service of the United States
under the following named officers
and served as herein stated he served
six months under Capt Lytle and Col. Lytle That 
he does not recollect the day or the month owing  to defect of memory caused by extreme  old age but it was in the year of 
1779 that the claimant entered in the [illegible] 
of the war of the Revolution and remained in service until the termination of the war in 1781. In [illegible] at least fifteen months that
the Claimant was in  actual service the 
the first engagement upon 
Ackly Raid near Charlestown South Carolina
under Capt. Lytle and Col. Lytle the next engagement was at  the battle of Gates'  defeat under Capt. Joseph Johnson . Col. John Notts  Genl Butler and Genl [illegible] were officers was upon [illegible] he [illegible North Carolina here at this point Col [illegible] was stilled
the Claimant was from Chatham County  North Carolina when he entered the service  the Claimant was drafted for three months . 
Volunteered for three and served as a substitute  three months afterwards the Claimant served for three months as substitute in Capt. Alexander Clarks' Company three months and Capt William [illegible] Company three months. The Claimant marched through North & South Carolina
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the claimant does not recollect certainly what Continental regiment he belonged to, he has no documentary evidence.
He hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state (illegible) that of the agency of the state of Georgia, claimant afterwards was transferred from the roll of Georgia to that of Hartsville(?) Alabama, thus transfer was made the 25th February 1840, to take of and (illegible) from and after the (crossed out) of March 1839. the said claimant applied for this pension in 1834 or 1835, but then had no witness to prove his service  l upon his own oath pf service, he received a certificate the (illegible) not of which is now in his possession of which (illegible) is a true copy 
War Department
Revolutionary Claim
"I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the the (illegible) 1832 Philip Higdon of the State of Georgia a private in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive thirty dollars per annum during his natural life, Solemnized on the 4th March 1831. and (illegible) service annually on the 4th March and 4th September in every year
Given at the war office of the United States the 23 day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty five

(signatures)
Mahlon Dickerson
acting Secretary of War
Examined and countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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under the certificate above set out the
claimant received thirty dollars annually up to the 4th March 1839 he has not received his pension since that time owing
to the fact of not knowing at what point to apply for his pension
until lately, - when he
received a certificate of Transfer as follows, 
War Department
Pension office
24th July, 1840. 
Sir
in conformity with the regulations
of this Department you have this day been
transferred from the Roll of Georgia to that of 
Huntsville Alabama
to take effect from and after the 4th March
1839.
I am Sir, Respectfully 
Your Obedient Servant 
J. L. Edwards
Commisioner of Pensions 
Mr. Philip Higdon 
U.S. Pensioner 
care of  William Dickson Esq. 
Buzzard Roost
Alabama

The Claimant received his discharge at  the 
close of the Revolutionary War which he can not now obtain, it being lost or misplaced - He was born in the year 1760, he has no record of his age, he was born in Chatham County North Carolina, he was living in same county & state when called into service the Claimant  Served Years after the Revolutionary War moved to Georgia resided there about three years and then moved to  [illegible] where he has resided  his for several  years thence he removed to North Caroline where he remained five of six years and thence he moved to Tennessee where he lived about
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three years, thence he removed to Georgia
where he [illegible] five or six years, and
then he moved to Alabama where he
has lived about three years and where
he now resides
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid.
Jno. Nooe Judge seal
Philip Higdon
his mark
The State of Alabama 
Franklin County
Also personally appeared
before me John A
Nooe Judge of the County
Court of said County &
State, Richard Strong,  who is a resident of
the State of Tennessee in the County of Hardin
who being first duly sworn upon the wholy [illegible] of Almighty God the truth to speak in relation to his knowledge of the services  of
Philip Higdon a Pensioner the Revolutionary
[illegible] States that he was a soldier the Revolution in War [illegible] for said Philip Higdon at Gates defeat and other Battles [illegible] set forth in the declaration of
said Philip H--don that he knows
Philip Higdon aforesaid
did [illegible] in said war as a private for
at least fifteen months and that he knows
his own knowledge that the first statement  set forth in the declaration above
of the said
Higdon
are true
Sworn to and subscribed
the
day & year aforesaid

Jno. A. Nooe Judge   [seal]
[illegible signature] x  his mark 
Strong
And I John A. Nooe Judge 
do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant wasa soldier of the Revolution and served
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Service Number
N.C.  Higdon, Philip  S10839
Born in N.C.  Carded
This Envelope Includes
Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
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Philip Higdon
Georgia
Suspended
Letters 2 Dec 134 to
Hon A.S. Clayton
Enclosing a printed letter
for pension
Admit for 9 mo $30
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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office
Nov. 26th 1839
Sir, 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Philip Higden a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia Agency at the rate of Thirty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th of June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 6th of September 1837 to the 6th of March 1839.
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
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December 20, 1839
Buzzard's Roost
Dec 
Honourable J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Buzzard Roost 6th Dec, 1839
Honl. J.L. Edwards
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will please find an application for the transfer of Phillip Higdon a pensioner from the State of Georgia to the State of Alabama.   This application was filed up in 1838 but was [illegible] to be sent to the war department by an oversights (sic) when he applied there a short time ago for the money due him
very respectfully
your obd. servt
Wm. Dickson
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(8-1776)
SERVICE: N.C.
Higdon, Philip

NUMBER
S.10839
Carded

Born in N.C.

This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Pension Agency
Planters Bank
January 30, 1839
Sir 
Your letter of the 23rd is received. Philip Higden private pension for act of June 1832, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum was last paid out at Washington, on 26th November 1839, up to 4th March 1839-
Respectfully
Your Obdt Sevt.

(illegible)
Geo W. Crump Esq
acting comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
August 16th 1840
Sir, 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Philip Higdon a Pensioner on the Roll of the Huntsville Ala Agency at the rate of Thirty dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at the Department from the 4th of march to the 4th September 1839
Respectfully yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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10839
Invalid
File no: 10,839
Rev  War

Philip Higdon
Pri Rev War
June 7th 32
Index: A, Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870]
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LT 1057 March 23, 1838
Pension Office
M. Evans
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Buzzard Roost
7 March 1838
Free

Hon. Joel R. Poinsett S. at war
Washington City
D.C.

H1057- Mch 23 1838
Pension Office
W. Evans
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Buzzard Road Alabama March 5 1838
J R Poinsett
Dear Sir, 
I am a Pensioner on the Pension list of Madison County Georgia, having removed to Franklin County in North Alabama, and wish to be placed on the Pension list nearest me which when done you will be so good as to inform me by writing to this office. 
Your humble servant
Phillip Higdon
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Application for a Transfer
County of Franklin State of Alabama. 
On this 8th day of September 1838, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Franklin personally appeared Philip Higdon who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belongs to the Company commanded by Captain Litle in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Litle in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Georgia from when he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District, or Territory) of Alabama Franklin County where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The follow are his reasons for removing from the State of Georgie to the State of Alabama are his only son removing from the State of Georgia to Alabama. The son being desirous his father would accompany him. The father Philip Higdon wishing to go with his son and having no relatives left behind did not wish to be left so unconsolidated. 
Philip Higdon
James Williams
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State of Alabama Franklin County
This day personally appeared before me James Williams an active Justice of the peace in and for said county Redeford Higdon and made oath in due form of law that the fore named Philip Higdon is the same person described in the foregoing applicant and the same person who has taken the foregoing oaths and that he is the same person who draws a pension in the state of Georgia and removed from thence to the state of Alabama in the month of October 1837. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th September 1838
x his mark
Redeford Higdon

I James Williams an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid do certify that Redeford Higdon Is a man of veracity and that Philip Higdon did take the foregoing oath before me on the day therein mentioned. 
James Williams 

In the State of Alabama Franklin County
I Michael Dickson clerk of the court of Franklin county do certify that James Williams is an acting Justice of the peace as above duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office
this 14th day of September 1838
Michael Dickson Clerk of the Court of Franklin County
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The state of Alabama Franklin County

I, John A. Noor, Judge of the County Court of The County of Franklin State of Alabama do hereby certify that Michael Dickson whose name is affixed to the foregoing Certificate as an acting clerk of the County Court of said county, that the signature aforesaid purporting to be his is genuine and that all of his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as witness my signature this the 15th day of November.
John A. Noor Judge of this County Court of Franklin County Alabama