Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5497, for Benjamin Parr, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey

Parr, Benjamin[handwritten in black ink in script]
Martha D.

NUMBER
W-5497 

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CONTENTS
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Georgia
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Benjamin Parr [handwritten in script]
of Clark [handwitten in script] in the State of Georgia [handwritten in script]
who was a Private [handwritten in script] in the Company [handwritten in script] commanded
by Captain Emma's [handwritten in script] of the Rent [handwritten in script] commanded
by [illegible] Swercanes [[handwritten in script] in the N. Jersey [handwritten in script]
line for 18 months from 1777-[handwritten in script]


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Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia [handwritten in script]
at the rate of 60[handwritten in script] [illegible mark] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 [22 handwritten in script] day of Decr "32 [handwritten in script]
                             and sent to Hon A.S. Clayton House of Reps[handwritten in script]
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 [handwritten in script]                                                         90- [handwritten in script]
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33    30- [handwritten]
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                                                                   $120-
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[double line under $120
                                         {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                         {Act June 7, 1832.      }
Recorded by Martha Rice [handwritten in script] Clerk,
Book D[ D handwritten in script]  Vol. 8 [handwritten]  Page 141- [number handwritten]
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[all handwritten in script] Order to pay.  3d March 1838. [then a line to the end of the page]
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Reported B.J. Parr Dec 8 1853 Georgia 1186 Martha D Parr widow of Benjamin Parr NJ who served in the Revolutionary War, as a private Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollurs Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848 Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of August 1848 and sent to Hon Howell Cobb. Hoff?
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Service New Jersey  Parr, Benjamin Martha D W5497
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Marriages Benjamin Parr v Marstia Dunrcley McKinney was Married the 25th of July 1790 Edward Babintan Akins v Martha Dundee Parr was married the 22nd of December 1812 John Currein Parr V Margarett Bottan was married the 27th of August 1816William Lennie’s Parr and Ann Weis was married the 30th October 1823. Marriages Rodman Sifram V Elizabeth Parr was married of November 1824 (1829). William L Parr V Jane Bell Weis was married the 9th of January 1825.  Page had 8 blocks, 2 of the blocks were not readable
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Georgia
Carroll County
I William L. Parr, Clerk of the Interior Court in and for said county officially that I have always understood and believe that I am the legitimate son of Benjamin Parr and Martha D. Parr the declarant for a pension and that the foregoing is my own family Register in my own handwriting and that I have endeavored to keep a minute of the whole of my relatives and in order to get a correct registry applied to my said Fathers original family registry about year 1824 and transcribed from his original family registry about that time which kept in a small Bible the portion that refers to the ages of my said Father and Mother and the date of their marriage and the births of their children all of which I know to be a true copy from his original family registry which was referred to by him for many years prior to obtaining a large Family Bible
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Given under my hand and seal of office officially this Seventh of July 1845
WM H Parr Clerk
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State of North Carolina
Wilkes County 

I William Mastin clerk of the Court of Please and quarter series in and for the county aforesaid in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that the following is a true copy of the marriage license Bond of Benjamin Parr and Patsey McKinney which is on file in my office. 
Know all men by this presence that we Benj. Parr and Henry Jones of Wilkes County North Carolina are held and firmly bound unto Alexander Martin Esq, Governor and C in the full sum of five hundred pounds subject to legislation to be paid to the said Alexander Martin Governor and his successors in office to which payment well and fully to be made, we find ourselves our hive executor and administration justly and serially formerly by these presence seated with our seals and dated this 25th day of July 1790. 
The condition of the above obligations is such that whereof Benj Parr hath made applications for a marriage license to be handled believed him an Patsey McKinney; Now if there is no just cause to obstruct said marriage but if it be in very respect of lawful then the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. 
Signed sealed and deliv'd 
in presence of 
CH Gordon CC 

Benjamin Parr  scale
Henry Jones  scale

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Office in Wilkes Court the 18th day of March 1846. 
W Mastin Clerk
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Act 4 8727.607
Act '44

Martha D. Parr

GA

Act 3 March '43

18 ms private 
$60 
Also Act 1844
$60.00
Commencing from 22 Dec
1842, when husband died.
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the several acts of Congress by Act of 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for any war widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7 1838 and the Act of 17 June 1844 continuing the pensions of certain widows. 

State of Georgia
Carl County } ss Special Inference Court

On this seventh day of July 1845 personally appeared before the Honorable the Interior Court held in and for the county aforesaid the same being a court of record Mrs. Martha Duncley Parr a resident of said county and state aged sixty eight or nine years on the 15th day of September 1845 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the several Acts of Congress (applicable to her case) That she is the widow of Benjamin Parr the identified person who was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of the 7 June 1832 at the rate of $60 per annum in Clark County, State of Georgia. That she has always understood and believes that the said Benjamin Parr was a private in the New Jersey militia and served in the War of the Revolution and for proof of his services she refers to the evidence on which he obtained his pension aforesaid. 
And deponent further declares that she was legally married to the said Benjamin Parr on the 25th day of July Seventeen hundred and ninety (1790) By a Justice of the Peace in the County of Wilkes State of North Carolina (named William Lenoire) and removed from there to the state of Georgia and resided in Clark County for several years past and removed from there to Carl County about the last of November 1842 where her husband the said Benjamin Parr died on the 22nd day of December Eighteen hundred and forty two (1842) leaving her as his widow and that she has remained a widow ever since that. She has no documenting evidence in support of the foregoing statements further than her family registry (which is here in court). That it is not their original family registry. That in the year 1831-1832 her husband purchased a Family Bible the only family registry she now has and that the entries therein was transented from
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their original family registry soon after the Family bible was purchased as aforesaid by her son Daniel W Parr down to the Birth of Samuel J. Parr their youngest surviving child and that the other entries that appears is on the handwriting of her said husband and that she knows registry of her children's ages to be correct and has went through no alteration since first registered as aforesaid. That she has always understood and believes that she was born in the year 1777 and was married in her thirteenth year of age and according to her understanding had an alternation made in the registry of her age -that their original family registry contained the date of their marriage but is lost-destroyed or mislaid and that she has made diligent search and enquiry for it but is unable to find out where or how it has been misplaced that she knows of no person living who could testify to her marriage of their own knowledge. That she has recently moved to Carl County and has no old acquaintances who reside near her. But that she has acquaintances in Clark County her former residence if in life who can testify to an acquaintance of fifty years and knows that her and her said husband had lived together as husband and wife. That she was not married prior to her husbands last service but was married prior to the 1st day of January 1794 at the above stated all of which will more fully appear by reference to proof annexed. 
her
Martha D. Parr

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year first mentioned before the subscribers Justice of the Court aforesaid and the hope purporting to be a family registry referred to by the Declarant Martha D Parr hereto annexed with wagers given under our hands in open court- This 7th day of July 1845. 
Attest Wm L Parr Clerk 

Saml C Candler JSC
Jeremiah Cob JSC
JR Wood Esq. JSC
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I Israel R Wood a Justice of the Interior Court in and for the County of Carl State of Georgia certify that I have been acquainted with Benjamin Parr who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 7 June 1832 in Clark County Georgia and Martha D. Parr the Declarant for the space of    years and that they have lived together as husband and wife and scheduled such ever since first acquaintance with them to the death of the said Benjamin and further that I have been personally acquainted with their reputed legitimate children and from my knowledge of the family believe the registry hereunto annexed contains a live record of their childrens ages in the order of their births and that the said Benjamin did leaving the said Martha his widow and that she is still his widow. 
Given under my hand officially in open Court on this 7th day of July 1845
attest     Israel Wood JSC

State of Georgia 
Carl County 

I William L. Parr Clerk of the county aforesaid certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had in said court in the matter of my mother Martha D. Parr for a pension under the acts of Congress applicable to her case. 
Given under my hand and seal of office on this 7th day of July 1845
Wm Parr Clerk
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Interior Court
State of Georgia
Carl County 

July 1843
Special Term

It is hereby certified that William L. Parr is the acting clerk of said court duly commissioned and legally qualified and full faith and credit ought to be had and given his attestation as such and further that the foregoing proceedings are the original as had in said court on this day. In testing whereof we have hereunto set our hands officially in open court in this day and year above named. 
Saml C Candler JJC
J.R. Wood JSC
Jeremiah Cob JSC
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Benjamin Parr

from 1777 private
18 months 
$60 


On Roll
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State of Georgia
Clarke county } On this 20th day of Nov, personally appeared in open court before Charles Dougherty, presiding Judge of the Superior Court of said County, now sitting, Benjamin Parr a resident of --- the county of Clarke, and State aforesaid, aged 71 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 names officers, and served as herein stated:

He was drafted for one month in the year 1777 under Cap Speirs and Major Sears, who commanded by General Hoit the balance of the officers he does not recollect. He entered the service September 1777 and left it November of the same year, he was in no engagement during that time. The place of his residence where he entered the service was the State of New Jersey, Morris Co, Ronbery township. He was drafted in the militia and was in to battle, he marched through Princetown on to Burlington, Mount Holly and the vicinity for which he was stationed. He again entered the service in the militia for one month under the command of General Winds and Major Holdey one month under Capt. Nicolas Emmons who was under Winds command   but was not present in the latter part of the year 1777. He served two months under the above named officers at New Windsor where he resided at that time. He was in no engagement, he marched through Hanover Township to New Windsor. the shipping of the British came by New Windsor for New York from Bergin at the time he was at Windsor and the cannon that was taken with Bergin came by land through New Windsor the day after the shipping had passed. he entered the regular army of Jersey Troops by a draft of every seventeenth man for nine months service to fill up the vacant places in the companies. He was in Capt. Henry Luds company 2nd regiment under General Maxwell, Adg. Holdey, Col. Israel Sarcares, Lieut. Col. Rayand. He entered service in the June of the year 1778 and marched through Phickanier Prince Town on to Burlington and Mount Holley where he joined the army in June of the same year above mentioned from thence he marched on to Monmouth where the Battle was fought
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He was not in the action- himself and the Jersey troops had ordered to retire back to English Town where he marched from the same morning aforesaid having made a short stay there he marched through the county for Elizabethtown where remaining for a short time he marched to New York for winter quarters where he attended upon the sick about three months or more. He received his discharge from the hospital sometime in the month of March and then returned home to Morris Co. Roxbury Township. He was again called out in the militia under Major Sears and Lieut. Cooper the rest of the officers he does not recollect, sometime in the year 1779 the day and month not recollected. He served two months in this tour one under Lieut. Cooper and one under Capt. Brown. He was in no engagement during the time and marched through Morris Town and Spring Field to Elizabethtown where he so remained for two months. He was again called, in the militia under the command of Major Sears, Capt. Rennols, and Lieut Cooper and served one month and also served a month under the command of General Hoit, Capt Brown and Lieut Emmons. He was in no battle during the two months tour. He marched through Woodbridge Rockway to Perth Amboy where he was stationed during the time. He was again ordered out by General Heard in a scouting party in Monmouth on the sea shore in order to prevent Col. For a negro and the tories from plundering the shores. He was under Capt. Hans for one month in the scouting party. The pilots were John Brimley and J. Russel the other officers he does not recollect nor the day of the month he was called out but it was in the year 1779 which ended his military service making in all a service of 18 months. The draft was generally for one month but when the relief came he would take the place of some of the new drafts. He was born on the 1st Sept 1761 in New Jersey, Morris Co, Roxbury Township. He lost his discharge and knows of no one nearer than the Indians who can prove his service. He moved from New Jersey in the year 1787 to North Carolina and from thence he moved to
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Georgia in 1789 Wilkes County and shortly after he moved to Franklin and finally fell in to Clarke Co by a division of the county, where he now resides. He will mention the names of AS Clayton and Jeremiah Daniel who can testify to his veracity and their belief of his being a revolutionary soldier. 

And I hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. - Benjamin Parr

C Dougherty JS CMC
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May 11, 1932

Mr. Perry Parr
51 Leroy Street
New York City 

BA-J/MLB
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Benjamin Parr
W. 5497

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, requesting the record of Benjamin Parr, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 

The date which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim W. 5497, based upon the military service of Benjamin Parr in the Revolutionary War. 

Benjamin Parr was born September 1, 1760 or 1761, in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey. 

While living in said Roxbury Township, New Jersey, he entered the service in September, 1777, and served four months as a private under Captain Spier, Nicholas Emmons and Majors Sears and Halsey in the New Jersey troops. He enlisted in June 1778, served nine months as a private in Captain Henry Luse's company, Colonel Israel Shreve's 2nd New Jersey Regiment. He enlisted in 1779, and served during that year at various times, five months in all, as a private under Lieutenant Cooper, Captains Brown, Reynolds, Haus and Major Sears in the New Jersey troops. 

In 1787 he moved from New Jersey to North Carolina, and in 1789 to Wilkes County, Georgia. Shortly after that, he moved to Franklin County, and from there to Clarke County, Georgia. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 20, 1832, while a resident of Clarke County, Georgia. 

He died December 22, 1842, in Carroll County, Georgia, where he had moved the last of November, 1842. 

Soldier married July 25, 1790 in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Martha (Patsey) Duncley, Dunclay or Dunkly McKinney, who was born September 15, 1777.
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Soldier's widow, Martha D. Parr, was allowed pension on her application executed July 7, 1845, at which time she was living in Carroll County, Georgia. 

The family record shows the following children of Benjamin Parr and his wife, Martha D.:

William Lenoire Parr, born June 25 or 26 1792; married October 30 1825 (1st) Ann Weir, who was born December 21, 1801, and died August 24, 1824, and (2nd) on January 9, 1825, Jane Bell Weir, who was born June 12, 1803. In 1845, he was Clerk of Carroll County, Georgia Court. 

Martha Duncley Parr, born October 26, 1794; married December 22, 1812, Edward Robertson Akin, who was born March 26, 1790.

John Currien or Curwin Parr, born March 25, 1797; married August 27, 1816, Margaret Bolton, born November 23, 1794, and died September 19, 1825. 

Rebecca Carlton Parr, born October 11, 1799. 

Charles Daugherty Parr, born June 9 1803. 

Elizabeth Easley Parr, born June 7, 1806; married November 4, 1824, Rodman Sisson, who died August 26, 1829.

Daniel Wildon Easley or Easley McKinney Parr, born May 1, 1809; married Nancy Allums, who was born June 15, 1809. 

Benjamin James Parr, born August 8 1812, and in 1855 residing in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. 

Samuel Jackson Parr, born December 7, 1814; married February 20, 1833, Lucasa Humphres who was born May 1, 1818. 

A child born dead, June 15, 1817. 

The family record also shows the following:

Isabel Black, wife of John Weir, born February 3, 1782. 

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Edward Robertson Akin, husband of Martha D. Parr, born March 26, 1790

Mary Ann Martha Duncley Akin, born October 23, 1813

Precilla Curries Parr Akin, born November 30, 1815

Rebecca Elizabeth (illegible) Akin, born june 9, 1818

Edward James Roberston Akin, born August 18, 1820

William Lenoire Benjamin Akin, born March 15, 1823

Sarah Bitha Susan Wortham Akin, born January 10, 1827

Children of Charles D. Parr:

Lewis Jerrell Parr, born May 19, 1829

Benjamin William Lumkin Parr, born December 3, 1831

Louisanna Teritory Parr, born August 5 1833; died October 11, 1836

Martha Mary Ann Parr, born June 1, 1836; died January 4, 1837

Calistia Ann Parr, born January 11, 1838

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Maragaret Bolton, wife of John C. Parr, born November 23, 1794

Leonard Langston Parr, born October 19, 1817

Mary Delila Parr, born May 26, 1820; died November 29, 1821

William Lenoire Parr, born August 11, 1822

Ann Weir, wife of William L. Parr, born December 21, 1801; died August 24, 1824

Elizabeth Jane Parr, born August 8, 1824; died November 2, 1824.

Jane Bell Weir, second wife of William L. Parr, born June 12, 1803

A male child born dead February 18, 1826

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John Benjamin Parr, born January 2, 1827; died October 15, 1834

William Lenoire Parr, born July 23, 1828

Samuel Howard Parr, born August 9, 1830; died June 6, 1833

Isabella Jane Parr, born August 27, 1832

Francis Marion Parr, born January 16, 1834

Milinda Martha Parr, born January 21, 1836

Mary Ann Elizabeth Parr, born September 19, 1837

Isaac James Parr, norn August 27, 1839

Nany Carlton Parr, born October 1, 1841

Susan Allevia Parr, born November 7, 1843.

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Rodman Sisson, husband of Elizabeth E. Parr, born     ; died August 26, 1829

William Henry Sisson, born August 19, 1825

Mary Melinda Sisson, born October 20, 1827

Ann Eliza Sisson, born July 9, 1829
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Nancy Allums, wife of Daniel W. Parr, born June 15, 1809

Henrietta Oveline Parr, born October 16, 1829

Adolphus Artaurexxes Parr, born April 11, 1831
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Children of Samuel Jackson Parr and his wide, Lucasa Humphres:

Nany Ann Jane, born February 9, 1834

Calvan Union Parr, born May 27, 1836; died June 20, 1836

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Children of Samuel Jackson Parr continued- 

Martha Lisann Parr, born May 6, 1837

Meriah (illegible) Terytory Parr, born December 1, 1839

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to the Administrator
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Record Division. 

August 9, 1911

Mrs. M.A. Parr, 
123 South 6th Street,
Ocala, Florida. 

Madam: 
In addition to the Military history of Benjamin Parr, Wid. File No. 5497, Rev. War, you are herewith furnished the following data as to his family.

Children

Mary Currien     born May 25, 1791, died July 6, 1791

William Lenoire  born June 25 or 26, 1792, married October 30, 1823, Ann Weir, and January 9, 1825, Jane Bell Weir

Matha Duncley born October 26, 1794, married Edward Roberston Akin December 22, 1812

John Currien born March 25, 1797, married Margaret Bolton August 27, 1816, died September 19, 1823

Rebecca Carlton born October 11, 1799

Charles Daugherty born June 9, 1803

Elizabeth Easley born June 7, 1806, married Rodman Sisson, November 4, 1824. 

Daniel Wildon Eazley MckKinney born May 1, 1809

Benjamin James born August 8, 1812

Samuel Jackson born December 7, 1817.

Very  respectfully,

Commissioner.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau. Benjamin Parr W.F. 5497

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment  Length of Service Rank  Officers under whom service was rendered  Captain   Colonel   Statf. 

Sept 1777 Nov 1777 Pvt   Speirs        N.J. 
1777 2 mos Nicholas Emmons
June 1778 9 mos Henry Luse Israel Shreve   NJ
1779 2 mos Lieut. Cooper 
Brown 

1 mo Reynolds
1 mo Brown 
1779 1 mo Haus 

Battles engaged in 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Roxbury Twp. Morris Co. NJ
Date of application for pension Nov 20, 1832 His cl. al. 
Residence at date of application Clarke Co, Ga
Age at date of application Rosbury Twp Morris Co New Jersey Sept 1 1760 or 1761
died Dec 22 1842 in Carroll Co. GA
Remarks: Soldier married in Wilkes Co. NC, July 23, 1790, Martha (Patsey) Duncley McKinney. She was born Sept 15 1777 and was allowed pension on an application executed July 7 1845 while a resident of Carroll Co. GA. For family data see supplement herewith.

Very respectfully, 
Commissioner

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Cole
J. Allen 
Monday 
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Acct 48
admitted 

Hon. Howell Cobb 
Hops
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State of Georgia
Clark County Athens
SS In this the 10 Day of July 1848 personally appeared before me John Kirkpatrick a Justice of the Peace Martha D. Parr, resident of the state aforesaid in here 71 years of age on 15 day of next September to the best of her knowledge 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 on the second day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Benjamin Parr who was a private in the Revolution and died on 22 day of December 1842 inscribed on the pension list at the rates of sixty Dollars per annum commensing on the 4 day of March 1843 and terminating on the 4 day of March 1848. She further declares that she is still a widow of Benjamin Parr. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above written before me                                  
Henry Haile 

her 
Martha D x Parr
mark

John Kirkpatrick SS

I know John Kirkpatrick to be a Justice of the Peace and believe the above is his signature. I also know the applicant and believe her to be identical person named in the declaration 
August 5 1848   Howell Cobb MC
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8124
Martha D. Parr
Georgia
Dir to J.H. Kilgore
Dept 1848
Hon A.H. Stevens April 30/46
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Payment to be made at Savannah
by 
James S. Morell esq. 
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of Georgia

Wid #5497

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March 

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners act February 2d, 1848 Page 213 Vol. 3
Leo Jenkins
Clerk
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War Department
Widow's pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Martha D. Parr widow of Benjamin Parr who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list a the rate of Sixty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this 7th day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. 

W.L. Marcy
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Georgia 
Clark County} s.s. 
Be it known that on this 3 day of April 1846 Before me Jeremiah G. Gray a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Benjamin James who being sworn according to law saith he is the legitimate son of Benjamin Parr who was a pensioner of the United States at the rates of $60 per annum in Clark County Georgia and Martha Dunkly Parr. That his said parents removed to Carroll County Georgia late 1842 when his said father Benjamin died leaving his said mother a widow. That he is informed his said mother has made application for a pension under the several acts of congress applicable to her code (and that her Declaration is now on file in the pension office awaiting proof) and his said mother wishes to obtain her said husbands original family register hoping it would afford satisfactory evidence as to the date of her intermarriage with her deceased husband. 
That about 12 or 15 years since his said father purchased a Large Bible on which he made a register of his family ages from his Original Register and gave the Original to deponent which he supposes that one sought after and was in deponents possession until a few years past when deponent made a family register of his own and support his children to history his said parents Original Register he thinking it being of no use as he considered that the annexed is a problem of deponents family register and the portion that contains ages of his said parents and their children which one deponents brothers and sisters as taken from his said parents original register. That he made some mistake in making his register which when discovered he connected as will be seen that he verily believes it a true register of his parents, brothers, and sisters ages as it now stands. 

Benjamin James Parr

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned before me. I further certify Benjamin James Parr is respectable and creditable witness this day before mentioned. 

Jeremiah G. Gray SS
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State of Georgia 
Carl County 

Be it known that on this 4 day of April 1846 before me William Nabers a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared William David a resident of said county and state who being first duly sworn according to law saith that he has no records of his age but thinks that he was born previous to the year 1790 for that the first circumstance that he ever recollects is being forted against the Indians on the (unknown) in Barnetts Fort which (from information) was the year 1792. That his parent took him from there to Columbia County where he resided until the year 1805 and removed to Clark County where deponent now lives that soon after sitting in Clark County found that Benjamin and Martha D.Parr were there neighbors and old acquaintances which first acquaintance was formed by deponents parents while forted as aforesaid that deponent was too small to recollect ever hearing or seeing them in the fort but since which time he has oftentimes heard his parents and the said Benjamin and Martha D. Parr in conversation say that William L. Parr there eldest surviving child was born while forted together as aforesaid that he has been intimately acquainted with the said Benjamin Martha Duncly Parr ever since the year 1805 until their removal the 1842 during all of which time they lives peacefully and orderly as husband and wife and were respected by all such that from his knowledge of the family he believes the family records of Benjamin James Parr contain the true ages in the order of their births of his parents brothers and sisters. Sworn to and subscribed on the day year above mentioned. Before me Wm Nabers JP

William Davis

I further certify William Davis is a respectable intelligent and creditable witness in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4 day of April 1846. 

Wm Nabers J.P.
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State of Georgia 
Clark County 
Be it known that on the 6 day of April 1846 before me Jeremiah G Gray a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Plesant Bryant who being duly sworn according to law saith that he was born on the 7 day of May 1770 and saith that he came acquainted with Benjamin and Martha Duncly Parr in the latter part of the year 1791 and in the year 1792. William L. Parr was born while forted at Barnets Point there eldest surviving child, that the said Bryant is now a resident of Madison County Georgia. The  Deponent saith that he was been intimately acquainted ever since short time after the year 1792. I was married in the said Benjamin and Martha D Parr's house to one of the girls by the name of Jinny Stone during the year 1792. I was often at the said Benjamin and Martha D Parr to see the mentioned girls who lived with the said Benjamin and Martha D Parr. I have ever since the above mentioned time knew them to live as orderly, quiet and loving and man and wife all ways heard them pronounced as such and spoke according as such. I have been living in Clark County State of Georgia ever since except six years now at this time resident of Madison County Georgia. I further believe the family register of Benjamin James Parr contains the true ages and order of their births of his parents, brothers, and sisters as it now stands. 
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above mentioned before me. 
Jeremiah G. Gray JP

Plesant Bryan

I further certify that Plesent Bryan is considered one of the oldest citizens of Clark County and is a creditable witness in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6 day April 1846.
Jeremiah G. Gray JP
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Georgia 
Clark County 
Clark's Official Superior Court

I John Calvin Johnson, Clerk of the Superior Court of Clark County, Certify that Jeremiah G. Gray is a Magistrate of said county as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have herenuto subscribed my name and annexed the seal of said Superior Court office this 16th day of April 1846. 
John Calvin Johnson Clerk 
of the Superior Court of Clark County Georgia

I also certify that William Nabers is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
Sworn also under my hand and seal of Office this 16th day of April 1846. 
John Calvin Johnson Clerk of the Superior Court of Clark County Georgia
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Athens November 23rd 1855
To Commissioner of Pension
Dear Sir I shood be very glad to git som information about Martha D. Parr back rushing and whether S.M Knight Esq,. has ever received what was coming to the surviving children of the above Martha D. Parr pension of the Revolutionary war. We all give Samuel M. Knight power of attorney to collect for us but can't git no answer from him. Please give me som information of the above call oblige me being much in deed. 
Your most humble sir, B. J. Parr