Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,827, Henry Varnadore, S.C.
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S.C. Varnadore, Henry   R.10.827
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State of Georgia  County of Dooly 
On this third day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open court before the Honorable James Polhill, Judge of the the Superior courts of the Southern Circuit in said State now sitting and presiding at  Term, Eighteen hundred and five of the Superior Court for said County, Henry Varnadore a citizen and resident of the said County of Dooly and State aforesaid aged about Eighty five 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 on the Seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty two, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named offices and [uncertain] as herein after state towit. Sometime previous to the surrender of Charleston,South Carolina (probably as much as a year) in the month of March this deponent was drafted for a three months Tour I was mustered into service [uncertain]Captain Henry Guissentiner at Orangeburg Court House South Carolina a Village in Orangeburg District So. Ca. & was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colo. Charles Hinkley - The former Governor Rutledge was
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the commanding General - The deponent said Draft served three months stationed at Orangeburg Court House & was then discharged from said tour of service. The deponent then returned home to his father's who reside in the district of Orangeburg aforesaid.

After the surrender of the City of Charleston SC & but a short time before the Battle at the Eutaw Springs in that State this deponent was again drafted for a three months tour & was mustered into service at Orangeburg Court House aforesaid, under Captain Jacob Wannamaker and marched to the Eutaw Springs, Colonel Henderson Commanded the Regiment. The deponent with others were selected as the Guard of the Baggage Waggons and consequently were not engaged in the battle. After this battle the company in which this deponent was (commanded by Capt. Wannamaker as aforesaid)returned to Orangeburg Court House, and also Colo. Henderson & troops commanded by him returned. This deponent served the said second tour of three months under the said last mentioned draft and was discharged at Orangeburg Court House aforesaid- 

The deponent some time after that (this time not recollected but he thinks in July August previous to the evacuation of Charleston South Carolina by the
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which he is informed was in
December Seventeen hundred and eighty two, he cannot remember dates) he was again drafted for a six months tour and was
mustered into service under Captain Gibson Jennings at Orangeburg Court House aforesaid and remained then stationed most of the tour when General or Colo. Henderson (He was called General in Camps during said
last town) who had the command, gave way to Colo. Jacob Rumph who received the Soldies to his own residence about six
miles above Orangebung Court House
aforesaid - The deponent remain there
in Camps & service under said last
mentioned draft untill the last of February following and was discharged
having served said last mentioned tour
of six months. The deponent was not
engaged in any battle, but was engaged
in several skirmishes against Tory
parties. The Defendant was born
in the district of Orangeburg aforesaid
& State of South Carolina in the month
of October Seventeen hundred & forty
nine, in which district the deponent
was rain, & resided untill twenty
seven or twenty eight years ago in
November when he removed to the State of Georgia & settled in the County of Lowing in said State of Georgia, & resided in said County of Laurens twenty two years
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and then removed to the said County
Dooly when he now resides in Eighteen
hundred and thirty - the age of deponent
was recorded in the Bible of one Lane Hutt
an uncle of deponent, & he knows not what
has become of said Bible, not having
seen it since he left the State of South Carolina, and he has no other record of
his age - At the time deponent went
into service & during the Revolutionary War
his residence when not in service
was at his fathers in Orangeburg District
aforesaid - The deponent was a private
Soldier & remember to have seen some
continental officers but he was not
acquainted with them & does not recollect
their homes. The deponent does not remember the names or numbers by which
the different Regiments were known
He was a private soldier & served
or before stated. He received no written
discharge at any time that he recollects
nor did any of his fellow soldiers receive
any written discharge within his knowledge
- The Deponent received pay for
his service in what was then called
Continental money. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension
or annuity except the present and
State of the agency of any
on to & subscribed
1
declares that his name is not on the
Pension
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he day & year aforesaid his
James Polhill
Judge Supr 6th Circuit
Henry Warnadon
Mark
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We Sparkman Bowen & James Powell
residing in the County of Dooly in the
neighbour have of Henry Varnadore
hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with the said Henry Far
adore who has subscribed & sworn
to the above Declaration, that we
believe him to be Eighty five years
of age; that he is reputed & believed
in the neighbourhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the Revolu
tion & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day and
year aforesaid
rankman Born
James Pollis
S.C.S.C.
James Powell
And the said Court do hereby declare its opinion
after the investigation of the matter & after putting
the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Depart
ment that the above named applicant was a
revolutionary Soldier & served as he states.
And the Court further is that it
appears to the Court that Sparkman Bowen
and James Powell who have signed the
foregoing certificate (there being no Clergyman
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presence as neighbors of the said Henry
Varnadore as citizens and
residents of
said County are creditable persons and
that their statement is entitled to
Credit. 
June
3rd
1835-
James Polhill
Judge S.C.G.C.

State of Georgia
Davey County
I Thomas H. Key Clerk
of the Superior Court
the County aforesaid do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original proceedings of 
the said Court in the matter of the
application of Henry Varnadore for
a pension.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of
said Court. this 3 day of June
Thomas H. Key
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That The John Burtle in sight of his Wife Elizabeth Burtle
Family Elizabeth Varnadore Joseph
Varnadore Allen Varnadore
Children at law of Henry Varnadore deceased
hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, Esq, of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Henry Varnadore
for any amount of Revolutionary Penson, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and thereby authorize said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City per to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to all things that I might or could do
were he personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that was said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.
WITNESS my hand and seal this 4th day of August A.D. 1833
John his X Burtle in sight of this wife
Signed and Sealed in the presence of Elizabeth Burtle John C. ? Joseph his x Varnadore Shemuel N Lasseter J.P.
Allen Varnadore

State of Georgia
County of Dooly

On this the fourth day of August A.D. 1853
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Burtle Jacob Varnadore attorney and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be their act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.

Shemuel N. Lasseter J. Peace

In this blank, if the Claimant be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If
he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her, name, (stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power.
If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.
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Claim of
Act of

STATE OF Georgia
County of Dooly
Be it Known, That on this the fourth day of August A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty three before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared John Burtle Joseph Varnadore Allen Varnadore a resident of this State in said County, and made oath according to law that are the identical persons who executed the foregoing
power of attorney, and that they are directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before Shemuel N Lasseter J. Peace. John Burtle Joseph his x Varnadore  Allen Varnadore
I, Shemuel N Lasseter Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby
certify that John Burtle Joseph Varnadore x Allen Varnadore who executed the foregoing paper are respectable residents of this County, and I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Shemuel N. Lasseter J. Peace.
Robert B Davies
Clerk of the Superior Court in the County and
State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Shemuel N Lasseter before whom the foregoing
papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace and for said County,
duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscriber, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed my official seal, this fourth
day of
the
August A.D. 1853.
Robt B. Davies Clerk.
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STATE OF Georgia
COUNTY of Dooly
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me that Henry Varnadore was a Revolutionary Soldier of the 
United States at the rate of... per annum, and that he died on the sixth day of September eighteen hundred and forty(1840) and leaving surviving children two of them have since died and that that Joseph Varnadore, Allen Varnadore, Elizabeth Burtle wife of John Burtle, Eleanor Varnadore and Nancy Varnadore the only surviving children of the aforesaid. Henry Varnadore.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal of office this with fourteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Shemuel N Lasseter J.P.
NOTE. If the original Claimant or person in whose right the claim was made, be alive, then there is no use for the above certificate, but simply the power of attorney. But if he or she (as the case may be) be dead, then the exact period of his or her death must appear. If the widow execute the power of attorney it must also appear when the marriage took place, and that she is still a widow.  If there be neither father nor mother, the period of marriage, and of the death of each, must appear; and also, the name, or names, of the surviving child, or children.  If he, of she, (as the case may be), was a pensioner, state that fact, and also the amount received per annum; but if a claimant merely, state that fact.
The above certificate must be executed by the Clerk of the Court under his seal of office.
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Jas M. Kelley
Aug 18 1831
same Oct 22 1805
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Col 7 June 32
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Act of July 14, 1862 and March 8, 1878.
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P.O. Henry Varnadore
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Milledgeville Geo. 10th August 1832
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I am requested by
James M. Kelly Esqr of Houston County
to enclose you the Testimonial of the Declaration of Mr Varnadore, with a request that  you will write to the said James M. Kelly
Attorney at Law directed to Perry Houston
County, Georgia, on the subject of this claim
together with the claim of Thomas Duffell
I am
Respectfully
Yours
for
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Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia 10 September 1835
James M. Kelly Esq
Sir,
Agreeable to your favour
of the 3d talk I have made a careful
camination in this office in regard
to the services of Henry Vanadove, purporting to be rendered in the War of
the Revolution but I was only and
before one Beef furnished
&
Capt. Rumphs Troop of Ranger, for
which he received an Indent N. 222
Book -
Respectfully
To Set
John T. Seibelsfor

William Laval Conf
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Henry Varnadore
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Wm W. Carnes
Comp Genl
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
STATE OF GEORGIA
By His Excellency Wilson Lumpkin
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this
State, and of the Militia thereof;
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
Know Ye, That Thomas H. Key whose certificate is attached to the annexed declaration of Henry Varnadore touching his
revolutionary services & is the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Dooly County, and
that James Polhill whose signs the
declaration and opinion of the Court
thereon, is, and was at the date thereof
Judge of the Superior Court of the Southern Circuit in this State.

Recd Two dollars and fifty
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THEREFORE, all due faith, credit and authority are, and ought to be had and given to his attestation as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and
caused the Great Seal of this State to be put and affixed.
DONE at the State House, in Milledgeville, this
Eighth day of August in the year of
our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty-five
and of the Independence of the United States of America
the Sixtieth
BY THE GOVERNOR:
Wm. A. Tennille
Secretary of State
Recd 25/100 Dollars
R.A. Greene
S.E.C.
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Perry 
Oct 11
Oct 20
J. L. 
Geo.
Mail
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J. L. Edwards Esq
in October 9, 1835.
Dear Jim
Enclosed is a letter containing the
evidence in Thomas Duffell case & also the
letter of Compt Genl. So. Ca. respecting Henry
Varnadon. I think there can be no doubt
with regard to the Justice of Duffell Claim,
and the evidence submitted I hope will be
satisfactory to you. I have already remarked
upon Tarnador's Claim -
I now again call your attention to the claim
of Jeremiah Dupree, I enclosed submit to you
the affidavit of A.M. Russell - It is a matter
to be regretted that Mr Byrn has removed
as his testimony would place Duprees claim
beyond all doubts I am convinced myself as
Dupree is entitled if any man in the United State in his character for bid the idea of a
false application on his part - his patriotism
as a politician & his integrity as a private man
and as a Christian cannot be questioned by
any man who knows him. He is stated and
accepted by & amongst all his acquaintances as
Revolutionary patriot, of his acquaintances ever
ally are surprised that his application for
pension has not succeed
I hope you will again take his case under
consideration & let him know the result
One Georgia Elections are just over
we have heard from as many as twenty County
the administration it is going ahead, and
there is no doubt of its triumph
Respectfully your
Obt. Servt
James Maker