Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 4531, for Daniel Lewis, Maryland
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
Md. | Lewis, Daniel | S45331
N.C. | | 
carded
CONTENTS
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12,350
North Carolina
Daniel Lewis
of Iredell in the State of Mar:
who was a pr: in the _____ commanded 
by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded
by Col. Griffin in the N.Y.
line for 6 months-
MD $ N.C. Line. Records corrected Apr 7, 04

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 20-Dollars _____ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Apr '33
and sent to T. Falls
Statesville N.C

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840  40
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept- 10
$50-

(Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.)

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk,
Book 6, Vol. 6 Page 47
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Daniel Lewis
N. C.
No. 9559

Admit as a private for
six months $20.00
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
183

Sir
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form.
On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed.
The notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).
You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

Statement, shewing the service of Daniel Lewis

Period when the
was rendered.
1776 Vol 
1781 "

Duration of the
claimant's service
Years/Months/Days
--/4/---
--/2/--
Was frequently
on scouting 
parties and 
believes his
entire service
amounted to 
7 months or 
more

Rank of
the
claimant.
Pri
Pri

Names and Rank
of the Company
officers under
whom he served.
Capt Edw
Burgess
Capt A 
Armstrong

Names and Rank
of the General
and Field officers.
Col. Griffin &
Genl R.
Beall
Col. Davidson

Battles in which
the applicant was
engaged.
son
White
Plains

Country through
which he marched
From Montgomery 
to N YK
to Tuckahoe
Heights, to 
White Plains 
thence to
Pittekell 
then to Fort
Constitution

Place of abode
when
he entered
the service, and age
at the present
period.
77 years
Montgomery CO
MD

Evidence by
with the declaration
is supported
Traditionary
Witness

I am, respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted: 

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.  Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are 
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged 
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claim
ing the benefit of this law as officers, non commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first in
stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832,
State, Territory, or District of } ss.
County of } 

On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before 
[blank] A. B. a resident of (b) [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District
of [blank] aged (c) [blank] 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and 
served in the (e) [blank] regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers :

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service;  (and if he serv
ed under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, 
and the country through which he marched. ☞This form is to be varied as to apply to the cases of officers and per
sons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of [blank]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. [blank] , A. B.

And then will follow the certificate of the Court.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolu
tionary solider, and served as he states.
I [blank] of the Court of [blank]
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
[blank] day of [blank] &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and 
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank]
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revo
lutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears, to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank]
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank]
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank]
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commis
sion; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the ser
vices of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one on the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be at
tempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia:

1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary
war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.

{To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if  {so, by whom was it giv
{en, and what has become of it?
6.  {To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom  was it signed, and what has
{become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can tes
tify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, 
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be 
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from 
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed 
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. 
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the char
acter and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct 
proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the 
enquiry [inquiry] whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.  

Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration be
fore required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the 
proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to 
perform, and will also certify, that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, 
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper 
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a 
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is 
his genuine signature. 

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the 
taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the 
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can pro
cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period 
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity ; in which case the declarant will fol
low the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
{[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served ; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the }
{claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, with  precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so}
{definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the}
{loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:}
{"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason}
{of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his}
{recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:-For ___ year ____months, and ____}
{days, I served as a ____.  For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension."}
{It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law}
{directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months,}
{is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years}
{in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is}
{highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served ; the duration of each term of engagement ;}
{the particular place or places where the service was performed ; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent au}
{thority ; that he was either in the field or in garrison ; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil}
{pursuit.}
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pub
lic seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which con
tains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.

[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in the affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the wit
nesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
☞The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops.  The proof required by rule in
note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration
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3559
Daniel Lewis
Declaration for
a pension

No 3

Daniel Lewis
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State of North Carolina
Iredell County

August Session A.D. 1832
On the 25th day of August
1832 personally appeared in open Court before a Court
of Pleas and Quarter Session of said County now
Setting Daniel Lewis a resident of
Iredell County State of North Carolina aged
77 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 officer and served as
herein stated.

That he entered the service of the United States in Montgomery County
Maryland in the flying Camp in the year 1776 under Capt
Edward Burgess Col Griffin & Gen R Beall. He was a
volunteer and entered for four months from the 1st of
August to the 1st of December, and performed that
tour by marching through different places to New York
and was on York Island at the time of the battle, 
afterwards marched up the North River to Tuckahoe heights
where had some skirmishing with the British marched
to White plains and was in the battle at that place
from thence marched to Pittskill and crossed the River
and went down it to Fort Constitution, afterwards
called fort Lee, and was there discharged and returned
home.  Removed in 1778 to North Carolina, and in the
year 1781 he again joined the army as a volunteer in the
home service. Capt Abel Armstrong, Col Greer Davidson
this was a two months service well agreeable to the
offer made at the time was to be reckoned as
there months as it was performed in the horse
He was in the service at the time of the Battle of
the (illegible) but at that time was on an enforce
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to Gen Green Camp near Cheraevy(?), and continued in
the service until the expiration of his time.

In addition to which services he frequently was out
on scouting parties and verily believes that his
entire services amounted to seven months or
upwards, that he has no documentary evidence 
and that he knows of no persons whose testimony
he can procure who can testify to his services
except those here produced.

He was born in Frederick now Montgomery
Company in the 1755. He has no record of his age
was living in Montgomery County Maryland at
the time he entered the service. He moved to
Rowan now Iredell County N.C. in the year 1798
& has lived then ever since - he was always
a volunteer as stated above & served under the
officers named above he has lost her discharge

He hereby relinquishes 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. He refers
Joshua Lazenby and lon Lovelace
his
Daniel X Lewis
mark

Sworn & Subscribed the
day and year above written
A. Simonton Clerk
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Mr. Joshua Lazenby and Elan Lovelace residing  in the county of Iredell and State of  North Carolina hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Lewis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 77 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier during the Revolutionary War and that we concur in that opinion.  Joshua Lazenby further says that he saw David Lewis at the time he was [illegible] off in the flying [illegible] and were his neighbors and knew him after he retired from service.
Joshua Lazenby
Elam Lovelace
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I, Abraham Simonton, Clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarterly Session of Iredell county North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of this application of David Lewis for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of August AD 1832.
A Simonton Clerk


2559
Daniel Lewis
Declaration for a pensio
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March 20, 1939
BA-J/ady
Daniel Lewis
S.4531

Mr L. Garrett Myers
80 North Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension based upon the miliary service of soldiers in those wars. 
A careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension on file on account of the services of Joseph Lewis as described by you in the Revolutionary War or Joel Lewis as described by you in the War of 1812, all spellings of the names searched.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.4531. based upon the military service of Daniel Lewis in that war.
Daniel Lewis was born in Frederick County, that part which was later called Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1755, day, month and the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland, Daniel Lewis enlisted August 1, 1775, served in the Flying Camp under Captain Edward Burgess and Colonel Griffith, was in the battle of White Plains and was discharged December 1, 1776.  In 1778 he moved to Rowan County, that part which was later called Iredell County, North Carolina, and enlisted in 1781, and served about three months as private in the Horse Service under Captain Abel Armstrong and Colonel Davis.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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August 25, 1832, at which time he was a resident
of Iredell County, North Carolina.

There are no family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment
of pension, the name of person paid and possibly
the date of soldier's death, you should apply to
The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office,
Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the
following data: " Daniel Lewis, Certificate No.
12380, issued April 24, 1833, rate $20.00 per annum,
commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832,
North Carolina Agency"".
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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4538
INVALID.
Rev war
File No. 4531
Daniel Lewis
Pri Rev. War
Act: June 7. 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 219
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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The Genealogical Society of Utah
Joseph F. Smith Memorial Building
80 North Main Street
Salt Lake Cit, Utah

February 1, 1939
(date stamped received February 6 1939)

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please send us the service and pension record of the following soldiers:

Joel Lewis, who served in the War of 1812.  He is known to have resided in Greene Co., Ohio and his wife was Rachel Stapleton.
Joseph Lewis who served as First Lieutenant in the North Carolina Battalion mustered out in the Wilmington District  NC of the Revolutionary War.
Daniel Lewis who served as a private in the Revolutionary War from North Carolina.  His name appears on the list of pensioners from North Carolina.

We thank you for this service,

Sincerely,

Genealogical Society of Utah
Research Department
L. Garrett Myers, Supt. 

GB-M/S
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Md or SC    Daniel Lewis  BL Reg 249820-1855

Revolutionary War  

The National Archives
Bpunty Lane  Files
Act of 1855 r ejected  B  L
reg249820
Veteran Daniel Lewis
Grade Private
Service Md or SC
Can no. 1778  Bundle No 92
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Set: J Compton Sept 29/56

249.820     Act Mar 3   jr
                      June 24 '16

Sarah Lewis widow
Daniel Lewis [illegible]
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State of Alabama
Macon County SS
On this 10th day of May AD
One thousand Eight Hundred and fifty six
Personally appeared before me John C. M. Sween
an acting Justice of the peace Mrs Sarah Lewis
widow of Daniel Lewis, aged about 76 years of
a resident of Macon County Ala who being duly
Sworn
according to Law declares that she was
married to Daniel Lewis in Washington County
Georgia by John Smith a Justice of the peace
and that she has heard her husband often times
say that he entered the service of the States in
the State of Maryland in the war of 1775
as the muster roll will shew and that she is
only living child of Samuel Linfield who
was a captain in the old war of Independence
as the Muster Roll of South Carolina will show
and that David Lewis has served in the war
for more than two years and that her father
has served as a private and Captain more 
than five years.  She makes this declaration for
the purpose bounty land to which she may be
entitled under the act approved 3rd day of March
1855 She also declares that her Husband Danl
Lewis died about 11th July 1832 and she never
Received no County Land for her Husband
nor father Capt Samuel Linfield nor pension
(added later? hand written?) this (illegible) Pickens, was one of his officers - Superior)
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and that her father Capt Saml Linfield
died about the year 1812 and that he died in
Twiggs County Georgia and that she never
has received nor applied for a Land nor
pension but this application.
Wherein (illegible) and address Dr. Jesse Compton
With (illegible) P O Chambers County AL
her
Sarah X Lewis
mark

We John A Bowling and P. H. Youngblood residents
of the County of Mason and State of Alabama swore
our Oaths declare that the foregoing declaration
was signed and acknowledge by Mrs Sarah
Lewis in our presence and that we believe from
the appearance and statements of the applicant
that she is the Identical person that she represents herself
to be
John A. Bowling
P. H. Youngblood

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and
year above written and I certify that I know the
affiants to be creditable persons that the claimant
is the person she represents herself to be and that
I have no interest in her claim.
John C H McSween
Justice of the peace
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The State of Alabama
Macon County 

I Lewis Alexander is Judge of Probate
for said County do hereby certify that
John C. McSween whose genuine signature is
signed to the foregoing certificate of 
acknowledgment as Justice of the place is
and was at the time of signing the 
same an acting Justice of the peace in 
and for said County duly qualified
and commissioned according to Law and
that full faith and credit is due all
his official acts as such.
Given under my hand and
Seal of office this 30th day
of May A D 1836.
Lewis Alexander 
Judge of Probate