Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,388, William White, S.C.
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(3-1776) 

SERVICE  
S.C.

White, William
Mary

NUMBER
W.4.388

CONTENTS
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1889 April 3 Dr FS Nash history - Prior 
Georgia 5938
Mary White widow of William White decd who was a pensioner under the Act of  and who died in the year 1809 of Franklin Co in the state of Georgia who was a sergt in the compy commanded by Captain of the regt commanded by Col Branon in the SC mil line for 

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 60 Dollars  [crossed out Cents] per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Decr 1840 and sent to Thos King Esq Gainesville, Georgia
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1841 $300.00
Semi=annual allowance ending
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D McCurdy Clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 201
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William White and Mary Simpson was married July the twenty ninth day in year 1788
Jane while [illegible ang] of William and Mary White [illegible]
born July [illegible]
Elizebeth White was born august 21 1792
Sien White 
July 11 1899
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Georgia Franklin County}SS On this 28th day of January 1832 personally appeared before the Inferior Court of the County aforesaid Mary White a resident of Captain Smiths district in the county aforesaid aged sixty seven years who being 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 act of congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of William White who was a private and sergeant in the militia of the United States in the time of the revolutionary war this declarant does not know the time her husband William White entered the service he resided in Union district in the state of South Carolina during the war.  She has heard him say that he served under Colo Fair and Col Brannan he was in the battle at Camden and at Ninety Six  she has forgot the captains name and the general circumstances of his services she is confident he served one year a part of the time as sergeant as the order from some officer whose name is not fairly ledgible will shew the papers being hereto attached she thinks he was drafted he never served as a substitute
The further declares that she was married to the said Williams White on the 29th day of July in the year 1788 and that her husband the aforesaid William White died in October 1809 (day not recollected) that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 viz at the time above stated Mary X her mark White
sworn to & subscribed in open court on the day & year above mentioned 
Thos King CJC
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Georgia Franklin County} Clerks office Inferior Court
I Thomas King clerk of said court do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original proceeding in the case of Mary White for a 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 5th day of July 1839
Thos King CJC
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Georgia Franklin County} Personally appeared before me Daniel Mosely a Justice of the peace in and for said county Martin White who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the enclosed sheet taken from an old pockett book of his Father William White has been in his possession & his mother Mary White (who both live together) ever since the death of his father the said William White that that part of the Record relating to the marriage of his Father William White to Mary Simpson his mother who is now applying for a pension is in the hand writing of the said William White 

Martin x his mark White
sworn to & subscribed this 7th day of September 1840
Daniel Mosely JP
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Georgia Franklin Ct} Personally came before me James Knox an acting Justis of the peace for said county Henry Holcomb and after being sworn saith that he was aquanted with Wm White who lived in Inman county South Carolina and he further states that he was present when the said White was married to Mary Simpson and the Punnand Frederick  namd is a Baptist Preacher was the parson who joined them together in the month of July in the year 1788 and he further states that the said Mary Simpson is the and am who is now claiming a pension as the widow of the above named officer White who and this deponent further states that the said White was in the service of the United states same tim in Revolutionary war between great Britin and the  
United States in unhaps in the year 1781 sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 Oct 1839 Henry Holcomb
I James Knox JP
Georgia Cherokee County} I Posey Maddox Clerk of the Inferior court of said county do hereby certify that James Knox whose Name appears to the above is an acting justice of the peace and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to his attestation as such given under my hand and herewith seal being no seal of office this 12 day of October 1839
SS Posey Maddox CJC
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Georgia Cherokee County} I John McConnell one of the justices of the Inferior court of said county do certify that Posey Maddox whose name appears to the foregoing certificate was at the time clerk of the Inferior court of said county as then reported and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine Given under my hand & private seal this 29th day of June 1840
John McConnell JJC  SS
Georgia Cass County } (Hn M A Cooper HR) 
I Turner H Trippe Judge of the superior courts of the Cherokee Circuit of the state of Georgia do hereby certify that Posey Maddox whose name appears to the certificate first forgoing was at the date thereof clerk of the inferior court of Cherokee county in said circuit and that full faith and credit ought to be had and give to his attestation as such & Given under my hand and seal this 30th day of June 1840
Turner H Trippe
JSC CC Seal
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Georgia Cherokee County} I James Knox a Justice of the peace in & for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Henry Holcombe who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affadavit before me He is a respectable citizen of said county & his statements are fully entitled to credit Given under my hand this 17th day of August 1840
James Knox JP
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White Wm 
SC W 4388
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To serjant William White
you are hereby registered to impress two hundred and fifty eight of pork from where it can be shared without difreing [illegible] 
the use of my 
arrange being 
be your w rring 
my hand and 
82 [illegible]
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Mary White 5782
Wid of William 
Ga
Act July 7 1838
Married 1788
died 1809
Allow Sergeant
12m s $60 per anm
SC Militia Col Branon
Tho King Esq
Gainesville 
GA
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V Mary White
Georgia 
Susha Salet
to Thos King Sept 5 1839
same April 13 1840
same May 23 '40
same June 17 '40
act July 7 1838
let 21 July 4 0 to Wm A Cooper

Alsberry Hoxie Re 195176
1WM
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Revy WIDOW, &c
File No 4388
Mary White
Wid
Wm White
Sergt SC lis
Act July 7 38
Index Vol M Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870]
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HR 20th July 1840
JL Edwards Esqr
Dear Sir
Inclosed is an afidavit for a pension Please advise me what will tr the decision on it TH Tripple whose name appears is a Judge of the Superior Court of the state of Geo
yours Mark A Cooper
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Athens Ga Nov 16th 1840
J Wilson Lumpkin a Senator in the Congress US from the state aforesaid do hereby certify that the Hon Turner H Trippe whose name appears to a certificate signed on the 30th day of June last in which he certifies that Posey Maddox was the acting clerk of the inferior court of Cherokee County was at the date thereof Judge of the superior court of the Cherokee Circuit of the state aforesaid, and that full faith & credit ought to be had & given to his attestation as such 
Wilson Lumpkin of Georgia
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Carnesville 5 July 1839
JL Edwards Esqr
Commr of Pensions
Dear sir
I herewith inclose you Mary Whites application for a pension I should have sent it sooner but waited to get some others ready to send with it but not having them quite rady I cenetrted to send it on 
While writing I take the liberty to mention the cases of Theophilus Taylor & James Martin 
whose papers are of file in your office I think some time last year I sent additional proof but you informed me the 20 Sept that the proof had not been received will you be kind enough to inform me what additional proof will be required (as I have mislaid your letters) I had felt confident that the proof in these two cases was amply sufficent especially that of Theophilus Taylor 
In this county the emigration to the west & south together with the death of so many of the Revolutionary soldiers it is almost impossible now to procure testimony for many who I ahve no doubt are honestly entitled Mr Taylors case is one of the disonption He is illeterate his old associates have moved away (& died) he has no knowledge where they now are if in life, he now feels the hard hand of aruitsily presing him almost to pauperis m while there is no dobt (especially with those who know him best) that he was a valuable soldier of the Revolution Indisds the principals of honesty & patrism are the forment
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fratures of his character amid the daily wants of the necessarys of life
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obt servt
Tho King
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Georgia Franklin County} Personally appeared before Daniel Mosly a justice of the peace for said county Leah Taylor who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is well acquainted with Mary White of said county who is now applying for a pension she was presant when said Mary White was married to William White her disease husband the marriage took place in the year 1788 in Union district in the state of South Carolina in the presance of this deponant she has been well acquainted with the said Mary White ever since the marriage and for some time before and knows she has never been since married the said William White died as well as she can recollect a bout thirty years ago the deponant was acquainted with said William White in time of the revolutionary war and saw him start in to the service of the United States the time he was in the service she does not recollect or the officers names under which he served unless the colonels name was Fai she recollects that the army that he served in was stationed sometime at the congorees and she thinks they went from there to Camblir but owing to length of time other particula she cant recollect
Sworn to and subscribed before me March the 1st 1839
Daniel Mosey JP Leah X her mark Taylor
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Georgia Franklin County} Clerks office Inferior court
I Thomas King clerk of said court do hereby certify that Daniel Moseby whose name appears to the foregoing affadavit as a witness was at the time a magistrate of said county as there sessisented and that full faith and credit ought to be had & given to his attestation as such and that the same is in due form 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed ths eal of said office this 5th day of July 1839
Thos King CJC
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Geo
Add proof 
Mary White

Tho King 
Carnesville
Georgia
Dec 1839
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Indent Boox X
No 3191} Issued 3d July 1786 
No 1 To Mr William White for thirteen pounds 11/5 sterling for militia duty in Brandon Regiment pr aut audited L 13.55.3
The state of South Carolina
No 2 To William White Ls
For Militia duty in Brandon Regiment since the fall of Charleston Mr Anderson return amounting to Currency L 95.0.0
is Sterling L13.11.3
Comptroller Gent Office
Columbia SC 18 Nov 1839
I do hereby certify that the above memorandum marked No 1 in Red Ink is a true copy taken from Indent Boox X No 3191 deposited in this office And do further certify that the above account marked No 2 in red ink is a true copy of the amount for which the said Indent was paid
William E Hayne
Com Genl
B Hart
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Indent Book 10
No 2433
No 1
Issued the 18th April 1786 to Mr. William White for Thirty-four pounds Eighteen shillings and six  pence three farthings Sterling for duty done in Captains Palmer, Heughs & Jolly Companies Brandon Regiment [illegible] audited L 34:18:6 3/4

The State of S. Carolina
No 2

To William White 

For 25 days duty as a horseman from the 3rd to the 27th February 1779 inclusive, as per pay bill of Capt Palmer & certainly by Col. Brandon L 25.0.0

To 72 days duty as a horseman from 29th Feby to 9th May 1779 inclusive paybill & cert as above 72.0.0

To 72 days duty as a horseman from 7th May 1780 to 25th June 1781 inclusive as per paybill Capt Jolly cert by Brandon 72.0.0

To 63 days duty as a private of foot from the 7th October to 18 Dec 1781per paybill Captain Heughs Cert by Col Brandon. 31.10.0

To 45 days duty as a horseman from 10 Decbr 1782 to 23rd January 1783 both days inclusive per paybill of Captain Heughs cert by Brandon 45.0.0


To 45 days duty as a horseman from 10 December 1782 to 23rd January 1783 both days inclusive per paybill of Captain Heughs certified by Brandon 45.0.0

[illegible} deducted by the auditor

L 290.0.0
45.10 -
244:10 -
Sterling L 34:12.6 3/4

The claimants husband was a Sgt after 1782 the above named White was a private
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Comptroller General Office
Columbia S.C. 18 Nov 1839
I do hereby certify that the within memorandum
marked No 1 in Red Ink is a true copy taken from Indent Book X No 2433 deposited in this Office. And that the within account numbered 2 in Red Ink is a correct copy of the account for which the said Indent[?] was issued.
William Ed Hayne
Com. Genl
M.[?] B. Hart
Clk
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Indent Book X
No 3190
No 1
Issued 3d July 1786 to [illegible]
White for five pounds 8/ 6 3/4 sterling for
military duty, Brandon' Regiment [illegible]
Audited                          L2.8.6 3/4

State of South Carolina
No 2
To William White Dr
for militia duty in Brandon' Reg
before and since the face of Charleston
[illegible]
L 17.0.0
L 2:8: 6 3/4

Camptroller General Office
Columbia S.C 18 Nov 1839
I do hereby certify that the above memorandum No 1 in Red Ink, is a true copy taken from Indent Book X No 3190 deposited in the office. And that the above account marked No 2 in Red Ink is a true copy of the one for which he said Indent was issued
William Ed Hayne
Com Gen
[illegible]
[illegible]
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Carnesville 19 May 1840
J L Edwards Esqr
Comm of Pensions
Sir your letter of the 13 April 
last is duly recd And in reply I have to
State that I believe Mrs White has no further
testimony that she can at this time offer in
support of her claim for a Pension she is
unable to procure any Record evidence of
her marriage, I believe she was married in
South Carolina where there never was any
Record of Marriages kept in 
of Henry Holcomb proves the time of the marriage as well as the other affidavit sent you
with her declaration, Mr Holcomb proves also
that he saw White in the service, but from
his great age he does not recollect the length
of them or the names of the officers-
I have enclosed the affidavit of Holcombe
to Mr Cooper of Georgia who I presume
will give you a certificate of the official
Signature & of Posey Maddon Clerk of the
Inferior Court of Cherokee County- which
I hope will be sufficient to entitle Mr White
to a pension-
I have the honor to be your
Obedient servent
Thos King
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Caverville[?] 26 Novr 1840
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you again the affidavit of Henry Holcombe with the magistrates Certificate of Holcomb Credibility, & Govr Sumpkins[?] certificate as a member of Congress-
I have added also the original Record of the marriage of Mrs White formerly Mary Simpson to William White her deceased husband, and the affidavit of Martin White in whose possession the paper has been since the death of his father Wm White. The Record is a part of an old pockett[?]
Book which has been laid away with some papers for years & not found untill [until] the
last summer- I sincerely hope the papers now sent will be deemed sufficient to entitle Mrs Mary White to a pension-
I have the honor to be
very respectfully your
Humble Servt
Thos. King
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Indent Book S
No. 138 } Issued 7th June 1785 to
Mr. William White for Eight pounds
No. 1
14 / 3 1/4 Sterling for duty as a private
since the reduction of Charleston
Rev. Audited.   L 8. 14 3 1/4

No. 2 The State of So. Carolina 
To William White Dr
for Duty as return of Col. Anderson
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Indent Book D
No. 617

No. 1
Issued 30 May 1785 to Mr
William White for Seven pounds two
shillings and ten pence farthing Sterling
for 71 days Militia duty in 1781 & 1782 as
Br Acct Audited L7:2:10.1/4
State of So Carolina
No 2
To William White
for 71 days Militia duty in 1781 & 1782
Amounting to Sterling  L7:2.10 1/4
Comptroller Genl. Office
Columbia S.C. 18 Nov 1839
I do hereby certify that the above memorandom marked No 1 in red ink, is a true copy taken from the margin of Indent Book D No 617 and also certify that the above account marked No 2 in Red Ink is a true copy of the account
for which said Indent was issued, as appears from the records deposited in this office.-
William E Hayne
Com. Genl
W. B. Hart
Clk