Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 73, William Brown, Continental (Penn) & Indian War Of 1791 & Military Service 1801-1804
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(8-1776)

SERVICE                                                  

NUMBER

Continental (Penn)      Brown, William     W. 73
&
Indian War of 1791     Carr, Margaret (former widow)
&
Military Service 1801-1804


This woman's other husband was a pensioner, William Carr, Conn., S39289

CONTENTS

was an Irishman 
... Little York, Pa.
died in service in 1804
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[illegible]
[written upside down on bottom of left page "orig: Rolls Augt. 1883. CSP."]
7568
Tennessee Knoxville
Margaret Carr, formerly
widow of William Brown
Col  Arzard's
who was a Private of Cavy
Continental Line
in the Revolution
& under Gen Wayne in 1791,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
100 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
12th day of Feby, 1846
and sent to
Wlm. J. H. Crozier,
[illegible] of Rep's
[Acts of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A & 17th June, 1844.
vol. 2. Page 190.
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9269
Margaret Carr
. Wm Brown
Ten: II [roman numeral two]
Ach  7. July 08'
Marrried  1787
husb died 1806
9269
Wm Brown final 
settlement  $230.75

Thos Green Esq
Richmond
Va
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State of Tennessee
Knox County }
On this 3rd day of July 1843 personally appeared before the worshipful County Court now sitting for Know County in the State afore said Mrs Margarate Carr a resident of sd County aged Eighty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed 7th July 1838 and the 23rd August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she the is the widow of William Brown  and who was a private he entered the service in Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania in Armongs Core of Cavalry and was in the Battles of Long island Brandywine and at the seige of Yorktown Virginia and was under Gen Wain a greater portion of his time  She also declares that she was married to the said Wm Brown in the year 1784  That she was not married to him prior to his leving [leaving] the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 vez at the time above stated she further declares the aforesaid Wm Brown entered the service for the war and he served upwards of five years untill its close  and he entered the service the second time in the year 1791 under Capt Jacob Slough in the State of Pennsylvania was transfered from his command to that of Capt Lockwood and was in the  batttle on the Miamus where Gen Wain defeated the Indians  some time after the battle affiant joined  her husband at Cincinatta  from there rhe company marched to fort Hamilton from foart [fort] Hamilton tp Greenville from there to Knoxville in the State of Tennesssee at wich [which] place affiant husband was attached to the southern division under Col W Button and died in the service in the year 1804  she further declares she married her second husband Wm Carr in the year 1806 and that he departed this life January 8th 1825 and that she is still a widow    Margaret T Carr
  Sworn to subscribed in open court 
  [
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We Elijah Hicky a clergyman & James Park Esq. residing in the County of Knox and State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Margarate Carr who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe her to be the widow of Wm Brown decd and that she is believed in the neighborhood where she resides and that we concur in that opinion and she is a widow at this time.
Sworn to  [?] in open court [that chosen. ck. Sworn oath?]
Elijah Hickey a clergyman
James Park

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after [?] the interogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant is the widow of Wm Brown and served as  she states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them Elijah Hicky a clergyman & James Park Esq who has signed the proceeding certificate reside in the County of Knox and State of Tennessee are reliable persons and that statements are entitled to credit.

State of Tennessee
Knox County
I Moses [McSwan?] the sworn clerk of the County Council of Knox County do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings are the original proceedings [had?] and approved by the County Council of Knox County at its July Term 1843. Relative to the Declaration of Margarate Carr to obtain the benefit of act of conscription to Revolutionary pensions.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixing my seal of  Office at office in Knoxville this 3rd day of July 1843.
Moses McSwan [clk?]
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State of Tennessee
Knox County     ss

To the Hon house of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled your petitioner Margarate Carr formerly Margarate Brown [begs?] [?] - to represent to your Hon body the facts of her application for a pension for services rendered by her first husband William Brown a soldier in Armands Corps of Cavalry in the War of the Revolution for particulars she refers your Hon body to her declaration on file with the commissioner of pensions under the Act of Congress of 23th August, 1842 which act is [amendatory?] of the Act of July 7th 1838 and provides that second marriages shall be no bar to the claimant under the Act she being a widow at the time she made application for a pension. She further declares that her first husband the aforesaid Wm Brown was an Irishman by birth and emigrated to the United States about the commencement of the War of the Revolution and was sold for his passage to a man by the name of Crook in Little York Pennsylvania a short time after her husband the aforesaid Wm Brown was in servitude in the imploy of his master the aforesaid Crook, Crook was drafted in the Militia of Pennsylvania for a time of three months service at which time her husband Wm Brown proffered to Crook that if Mr Crook would give him his pardon he would serve out his Crooks Militia tour which was agreed to in this campaign her husband the aforesaid Wm Brown [intested?] in Armands Corp of Calvary for during the War the Captain Affiant has forgotten under which he served and mostly from this [part?] her lost husband was a pensioner and often hearing them speak of the events of the Revolution she cannot separate the Officers but with
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our [reception?] viz her first husband the aforesaid Wm Brown served in Armands command to the close of the War of the Revolution she refers your Hon body to the Rolls of that event. She further [detains?] that she was married to her first husband William Brown in the City of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania and her maiden name was Margarate Plunket on the 30th day of October Seventeen hundred and eighty seven by the Rev McAmburg then Pastor of Lutheran Church in said city that she was not married to him prior to his having the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four viz at the time above mentioned. She further declares that on the 2nd day of April next she will be Eighty nine years of age and in making [?] her former declaration  she had no data only her [?] of an event that had taken place so long than may be some discrepancy in the two but not intentional and she is still a widow.

Margarate Carr x her mark
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State of Tennessee
Knox County } Ss
   I, Geo. W.  C. Cox clerk of the County Court of Knox County and State aforesaid do certify that James Park Esq whoes [whose] name appears to the within is 
now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Office in Knoxville this 17th day of December 1845.
Geo W. C. Cox, Clerk
[black smudge possible wax seal]
 We the undersigned Citizens of Knox County Tennessee do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mrs. Margarate Carr. We believe William Brown to of been her first husband and that she is entitled to the benefit of acts of Congress relative to Revolutionary pensions given under our hands this 17th, day of December 1845.
Jacob Newman
Geo. W. C. Cox
Moses M Swan
Samuel McCammon
J. J. G. Smith
D. G. Stacks
Pas. M. McAffry.
Idu SM Clung.
Allen L French
E. L. Kusple.}

Robert J. Kennedy
James le` Luttrell
Sam W. Bell.
LeBhauer
Norman Gracseford
Azth. R Crozier
James Williams 
M M Gainis
James E Williams

[not sure names are correct]
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10

Mr. Jacob Newman 
Knoxville
East Tennessee
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After publishing the bands of matrimony, William Brown & Margaret Plunket, both single persons matric towns, were married October 30, 1787.  I certify that the above is a true extract from the record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in the city of Lancaster. 

Lancaster, Penn
October 25, 1845 

John G. Baker 
h.t. Pastor
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February 5, 1940

Elizabeth Davis 
56 W. Kenworth Road Columbus Ohio 

BA/AWF
William Brown 
W.73

Dear Madam: 

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, W. 73, based upon service of William Brown, in the War of the Revolution. 

William Brown was an Irishman by birth, and came to this country, settled in New York or Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The name of his parents are not given, nor was it stated when he arrived in this country. 

William Brown enlisted in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, date not given, served as private in Colonel Armand's Corps; he was in the battles of Long Island, Brandywine, Siege of Yorktown, length of service five years. 

He served in 1791 in captain Lockwood's company, under General Wayne, was in a battle with the Indians, on the Miami, was stationed in the barracks in Knoxville Tennessee, under Colonel Henderson, and died while in the service, in 1804. 

William Brown married October 30, 1787, Margaret Plunket; they were both then of Martin Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The said Margaret Plunket was born April 2, 1757, place not stated, nor are the names of her parents given. 

The widow, Margaret Brown, married about the
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Year 1806, in Roane County, Tennessee, William Carr. 

William Carr died January 8, 1825. 

The widow, Margaret Carr, applied for pension July 3, 1843, on account of the Revolutionary War service of her husband, William Brown; she was then a resident of Knox County, Tennessee. Her pension was allowed. 

One George W. Carr was living in Knox County, Tennessee, in 1845. 

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data. 

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this widow, you should apply to the comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data: 

Margaret Carr, formerly widow of William Brown 

Certificate #7568
Issues February 12, 1846
Rate $100.00 per annum 
Commenced March 4, 1843
Act of June 17, 1844
Knoxville, Tennessee Agency. 

Very truly yours 

A.D. Hiller 
Executive Assistant to the administrator
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February 5, 1940 

Elizabeth Davis 
56 W. Kenworth Road
Columbus, Ohio

BA-J/AWF
William Brown- W.73
William Carr- S.39389
Lathrop Davis- W. 20958

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letters in which you request information in regard to the following persons, who applied for pensions, war of the Revolution: 

Cornelius Carr, deserted the British Army, and joined the American Army, under an assumed name, and later lived in Gallia County, Ohio; William Carr, served from Connecticut, later lived in East Tennessee; John Cornelius, served from Connecticut; Mary Davis, living in 1840 in Mansfiled, Connecticut. 

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension found, based upon service of any Cornelius Carr, under any spelling of the surname. 

You are furnished herewith the Revolutionary War record of William Brown, whose widow, Mary Carr, received pension on account of his service in that war, the Revolutionary War record of William Carr, and the Revolutionary War record of Lathrop Davis, whose widow, Mary, received pension while a resident of Mansfield Connecticut. 

Very truly yours 

A.D. Hiller 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Columbus Ohio May 26 1939

Veterans administration
Mr. A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
Washington D.C. 

Dear sir: 

I would like the information you have on file about the following who are listed as drawing pensions for service in the Revolutionary was. Doc.31,21 congress 2nd session war dept. 

Mary Davis, age, 78 Mansfield, Middlesex County, Connecticut, 1840. 

William Carr, Connecticut soldier residing in E Tennessee, in 1810 John Cornelius a Connecticut soldier whose application for pension was rejected. 

Very truly, 
Elizabeth Davis

56 W. Kenworth road

Columbus Ohio
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Columbus  Ohio, May 25, 1939
Mr  A.D. Hiller
 Assistant to Administrater,
Veterans Administration
Washington 
Dear Sir;
     I am wanting information for the Veterans Grave Project for Ohio.
     It was said that Cornelius Carr Sr. deserted the British army and joined the Revolutionary army under an assumed name.   He applied for pension and was rejected. He lived at the time of his application for pension at Wilkesville Gallia County Ohio.
His oldest son was born at Middletown Connecticut in 1801.  He married Mary Davis of Connecticut.
    Is it possable [possible] for you to find a record of application for pension   If this record is not in your filescan [files can] you suggest any place where I might hope to find it.
Very truly 
Elizabeth Davis  [hand written]
Elizabeth Davis
56 W. Kenworth road
Columbus  Ohio
[black stamp]
[circle with numbers like a clock]
RECEIVED
MAY 27 1939
MAR. SUB-DIV. 
VETS, ADM.
READER 70
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3---871
-----------------
RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
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Briefed by..A Wilson Dec. 10, 1910 [had written]
Claim No. ___________
Certificate No. ______________
Claimant____________________
Soldier___William Brown [hand written]
Service _ Ind War, 1791.[hand written]
Additional Service  ___died in 1804. [hand written]
____________________________No_____claim, State records _________, 191___
No claim, combination records________, 191___
REMARKS:
No O.W. Inv.  as above____[hand written]
No one on Pa. Inv. printed list 35__[hand written]
None on American State Papers.[hand written]
__________________________
_______________________________________
6--1944           Chief Division
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73 [hand written]
WIDOW, &c.
N. W Indian 1790 to 1795 [hand written]
File No..........73 [hand written]
Margaret Carr formerly Widow William Brown & widow of William Carr  Priv. Rev. War [hand written]
-----------------------------------
Act: __-March 3rd 1843, [hand written]
Index:___Vol. A [hand written]....., Page 112.[hand written].....
[Arrangement of 1870.]
See claim Wm Carr. [hand written]
S 39289 [hand written]

1940 Feb 5 list to Elizabeth 
Davis.  Her letter in our claim and [hand written]
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(3-223.)
No. 1722, Ex'r.
[stamp] Rejected [/stamp]

Old War. 
Margaret Carr, formerly widow of William Brown, a Rev'y Soldier & also in North West Indian War 1790-5 & also Widow of William Carr, a Rev'y Soldier & pensioner File No. 39.289.
Enlisted Papers [avero?] Consolidated Feby 17, 1882; in admitted widow
DIscharged:
File No. 73 - See Margaret Carr formerly widow of Wm Brown
Application filed:
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9870
Repaled (?)
Tennesse. [hand written]
--------------------------------------
Margaret Carr, formerly [hand written]
Widow of  - William Brown [hand written]
who was a pensioner under the Act of --------
and who died on the Jany 8th, 1825[crossed out] [insert] 1804[dates hand written]
of Knox Co [hand written] in the State of Tennessee[hand written]
who was a Pr. of Capt. [hand written] in the Company [hand written] commanded by Captains Lockwood & Olley [hand written] of the Regt [hand written] commanded by Genl Wayne [hand written] in the Tenn.[hand written] line for 2 yr and Continental Line Rev. &Under Gen Wayne in 1791[hand written]
========================
Inscribed on the Roll of  Knoxville[hand written]
at the rate of  100 [hand written]  Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
====================
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th [hand written] day of Feby 1846 [hand written] and sent to Hon J. H. Crozier, Hos of Reps [hand written]
========================

Total amount,  $ 300.00 [hand written]
[Act. July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin [hand written] Clerk,
Book D [hand written]  Vol.[hand written]  Page 343. [hand written]
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V    9269
Margaret Carr
Ten.
Let to Hon. J. W Blackwell
Feb.22nd, 1844,
let to. Hon John H. Crozier
Jany 9. 1846.
7 July 1838
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No. 5821
________
Margaret Carr
E. Tennessee
________
Rejected

let to Saml. McCammon June 3. 18
let to Hon. J. W. Blackwell Dec.

Act 4 July 3?
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Washington City

Jan 30th 1846

Sir, 

Enclosed you will find some additional testimony in relation to the identification of Mr. Brown the first husband of Mrs. Carr who now has an application before, for a pension in right of her first husband. I hope this testimony in connection with the very strong testimony you had before you previously will be deemed sufficient by the Department to pass her claim. 

Respectfully
J.H. Crozier 
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington Jan. 27th ,1844.
Sir,
   I am informed that there is a declaration in your office , of Mrs. Carr, of Knoxville Ten. Widow of William Carr Decd. asking a pension by virtue of her Marriage with-----Brown--- a Revolutionary Pensioner, previous to her marriage with Wm. Carr.  You will please let me know, as early as convenient, what is deficient (if anything) in those papers.  If the papers are made out right, Mrs. Carr is entitled to a pension.  By the late act ---(1842.) --- her marriage to Wm. Carr is not a barr to prevent her from obtaining a pension by virtue of her marriage with a former Revolutionary soldier.
   Your early attention, is earnestly, and respectfully solicited.
   I am Sir,
 Very Respectfully, 
Your Obt. Servt.
J W Blackwell

Jas. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
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No. 9269    Act 43  8440
                    Act 44 ????

Margaret Carr formerly
widow of Wm. Brown

Tenn

Act 7 July 1838 

Admd. 2 years per Cavl.

$100.00 per ann.

Admd. Act 3 March 1843
and 17 June 1844

$100.00 per ann.


Hon. J. H. Crozier
House of Reps.
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Tri folded document with handwriting in two directions

Dec 9. 43
Tenn

Margaret Carr


James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Hon. J. W. Blackwell
HR
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Washington City. Decr. 8th 1843

Sir,
I understand that there has been a claim presented at your office for a pension for Mrs. Margaret Carr of Knoxville Ten. I being the Representative of Knox and other Counties in that section of the State of Tennessee, have been called upon to attend to sd. claim.
Will you please do me the favor to give me full information on the subject, and name the difficulty if any, under which  the claim lies. Mrs. Carr is the Widow of two Revolutionary soldiers, and if ever a woman needed, or merited a pension, she does. 
The claim, I am informed, was first presented by the Hon. Jos. L. Williams, and afterward by a Mr. Jacob Newman of Knoxville Ten.
An early answer is respectfully solicited.
I am Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. 
J. W. Blackwell

Jas. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pen.
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Washington 25 July 1843

To Col. J. L. Edwards

Sir.
Enclosed is the application of Margaret Carr of Knox Co., Ten., widow of Wm. Brown, who served 5 years she says in Armered Corp's in the revolution. She was married to said Brown in 1784-He died in 1804-she married Wm. Carr in 1806 He died in 1825.
Further proof is promised in regard to the date of the marriage.

I am Y. Very Obt. Servt. 
Thomas  Green
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House of Representatives Decs. 30th

J. L. Edwards Esq.

Sir

Enclosed you will receive some additional testimony in relation to the application of Margaret Carr ^ for a Pension. It seems from Mr. Newman's letter that her declaration and other papers are now on file in your office in connection with them will you be pleased to take into consideration the testimony now furnished and reconsider (word crossed out) her application. I have very little doubt myself that her claim is a just one  and if you find there is any difficulty in the way of your pronouncing it such will you be pleased to let me know what it is before you come to a final conclusion on the subject
Accompanying the papers you will receive a petition to the House of Representatives to be used as the last resort to obtain the pension I hope that this will not prevent you from giving the application the benefit of your usual investigation and dispassionate judgement
Yrs. Respectfully
Jn. H. Crozier
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State of Tennessee
Knox County }  Ss
   On this 21th day of January, 1846, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for said County Mr Thomas ^ H Miller a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy years on the 14th day of July last who being first duly sworn  according to law  doath [doth] on his oath make the following affidavit That he is well acquainted with Mrs. Margarate Carr who at this time resides in this Knox 
County and was well acquainted with her first husband William Brown affiant further declares that his first acquaintance with the aforesaid Wm. Brown was in the year 1801 at the Knoxville Barracks at wich [which] place the aforesaid Brown was stationed under the Command of Captain Richard and Col Henderson affiant further declares that he has had frequent conversations with the aforesaid Wm Brown relative to his Revolutionary services the sd Brown informed affiant that he entered the service of the United States in the State of Pennsylvania for during the war of the Revolution and served in Armands Corps of Cavalry and Arman was a Frenchman affiant further declares that affiant often herd [heard]  his father say that he saw the aforesaid Wm Brown in service in Armans Corps and that Brown had served to the close of the war of the Revolution.    
Thos. H. Miller  said
Sworn to and Subscribed on this 21th day January 1846
before me a Justice of the peace for said County and I further certify that I have been 
[illegible] acquainted with Thomas H Miller  and full faith and credit is due his Statements  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
R. F. G. Fleming
Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee
Knox County } ss
I, Geo. W. C. Cox Clerk of the County Court of Knox County do hereby certify that R F G Fleming is and was a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine--
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  hand and affixed my seal of office at Office in Knoxville this 21st, day of January 1846
Geo.W. C. Cox, Clerk
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Knoxville East Tennessee
April 7th 1843

Dear Sir
   The enclosed are the Declarations of Mrs. Catharine Dunn and Mrs. Margarate Carr 
boath [both] being in very indignant circumstances they wish as speceiys [?] an investigation of their claims as posible [possible] Boath [both] claim five years full pay however this will be adjusted by yourself  It is useless for me to say anything in relation to the papers as ^ the County Court has acted on them as will appear by declarations themselves  all they ask is your examination.  In the case of Mrs Dunn was Married before the close of the war of  the Revolution and she is entitled to five years full pay and placed on the list under the last act of Congress for an other year as allso [also] the case of Mrs Carr   The manuscript taken from the Bible in the care of Mrs Dunn  giving the age of her Children she wishes returned to her if it is consistant with the rules of your Office   Allso [also] in the case of Mrs Carrs the obituary notice taken from a news paper anouncing [announcing] the deth [death] of her husband and the Certificate of Returned Megs given to her husband Wm. Carr  returned as they are relics she sets great store by   I hop [hope] to here [hear] from you as soon as posible [possible]
Yours With 
Respect
Samuel McCammon
Jamis L Edwards Esqr
H B  The affidavid taken in relation to the marage [marriage] of Wm & Margarate Carr by Esqr Bird of Rhone 
 County of this State become necessary in an action at law in the Court at Knoxville is a cause why it was taken at that time
S McMammon
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Notification put to W. C. Mynatt Esq
3 Nov 1820
Knoxville, Tennessee
let: 5th Aug 1824 to Hon. J. L. Williams
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME [added by hand "Brown, William"]
GRADE [added by hand "Private"
LINE [added by hand "Hazen's Regiment"]
WARRANT NUMBER [added by hand "12778"]
ACREAGE [added by typewriter "100"]
ISSUED [added by hand "March 12, 1792 to Cath. Jones, adm. x"]

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME [added by hand "Brown, William"]
GRADE [added by hand "Private"
LINE [added by hand "Hazen's Regiment"]
WARRANT NUMBER [added by hand "12802"]
ACREAGE [added by typewriter "100"]
ISSUED [added by hand "July 26, 1791 to Patrick McLaughlin, assignee"]

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.