Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 6876, for Thomas Mann, Georgia
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE
NUMBER

Ga.
Mann, Thomas
R 6876

S. C.
Sarah
B.L. Wt. 77,545-160-55

CONTENTS
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286.153 Act Mar 3/55
Jan 15/58

Sarah Mann wid of Thomas Mann Decd. Private

77.565 Issued Feby 3d"/58

Capt Thomas Wynns
Col. Anderson
" S. C. Mile

Revolutionary War


S.C.  Jus '36
Ad: 160AG Aeb: Ed/58.
B [illegible]

Special. B.

Thompson & Jones Present.
["Pickins District S. Carolina" crossed out]
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The State of South Carolina
Anderson District

Personally appeared before Samuel M. Wilkes a magistrate in and for the district aforesaid Mrs. Mary Hembree of said district and makes oath that she was present and witnessed the marriage of Sarah Tackett now Mrs Sarah Mann to Thomas Mann in Spartanburg District & State aforesaid at Joseph Woffords mills on the 
 [blank space ]day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand[blank space]  by one Ralf alias Raif Smith a magistrate then acting in and for the district of Spartanburg and State aforesaid that the deponent knew them to live together and recognized each other and was so recognized by the community as man and wife for about forty years or upwards and raised a family of children, the deponent further states that Jerutha Oshield, Elizabeth Burril, John Butler David Graham and Nancy Graham, Aaron Nally, Elizabeth Nally and Christopher Nally were present to the best of her knowledge and belief, she further says that she has known the aforesaid Sarah Mann since her married age aforesaid and that she now reside in Pickens District and State aforesaid and is as deponent believes at least ninety one
years of age, deponent further states her own age to be Eighty three years the sixth day of August next,
Sworn
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to and subscribed before me the Twenty seventh day of July 1853 
Samuel M. Wilkes
Seal
Magistrate
for Anderson District ⎬ 
South Carolina

her
Mary X Hembree
mark

State of South Carolina
Anderson District}
I Elijah Webb Clerk of the Court of General Session and Common Pleas for Anderson District and State aforesaid Do hereby certify that Samuel M Wilks Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made as appears by his name in his own handwriting attesting the same was at the date thereof a magistrate for Anderson District appointed qualified and signed the Roll Kept according Law in my office

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal of
the Clerks office this 28th day
July
A.D. 1852
Elijah Webb
C. C. P. & G. S. A. D.
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State of South Carolina }
District of Pickens   }
Mrs Sarah Mann Del

On this the 7th Day of May AD One Thousand
Eight Hundred and fifty five Personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for the State and District aforesaid Mrs Sarah Mann Aged Ninety five years a resident of the District of Pickens in the State of South Carolina who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Thomas Mann deceased who was a Private Soldier in the Company Commanded by Captain Thomas Wymms in the Regiment not Known of South Carolina Malitia [sic; militia] Commanded by Captain Andrew Hamilton Major Noble, Colonel Anderson and Colonel Hammond Generals Pickens and Williamson. And also further States he was an Enlisted soldier in the Company commanded by Captain William Pullum in Georgia Malitia [sic; Militia] Regiment Not Known and was at the Battle of  Eutaw in the State of South Carolina and at fort sweed and was in actual engagement in two seiges [sieges] at Augusta in the State of Georgia in the old Revolutionary war that her said Husband volunteered in the District of Abbeville in the State  of South Carolina at the Early Commencement of Revolutionary war and was in actual service in said war for the term of seven years in the States of South Carolina and Georgia and was Honorably discharged the place (Not Known and Day Not given)

She further states that she was married to the said Thomas Mann in the District of Spartanburgh and State of South Carolina on the First day of May AD 1779 by One Ralf Smith a magistrate a man duly  authorized to solemnise [solemnize] marriages and that her name before her said marriage was Sarah Tacket. That her said Husband Died at his Residence in the District of Pickens in the
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State of South Carolina on the 31st day of May A D 1832 
  She also further states that her said
Husband Drew from the State of South Carolina a Pension for his services in said war up to the time of his death and that she has Drawn Annually every year a pension from this State for his services in said war and that the the act of this state give her a pension for life and that she is now a widow 
She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd 1855

Sarah
her X mark
Mann

Mr B.F. Sheppard Bailey A Stephens Residents
of the District of Pickens in the State of South Carolina upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the Applicant that she is the Identical person she represents herself to be
B. F. Sheppard
Bailey A. Stephens 

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I Know the affiants to be credible persons that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that she has Draw Annually a Pension from the State of South Carolina for the services of her said Husband in the Revolutionary war and that I have no interest in this Claim
J. G. Hagood Notary Public
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State of South Carolina
District of
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286.033
J R Hunnicut affidavit
State of South Carolina
District of Pickens 
On this the seventh day of May AD one Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty five Personally appeared before me a notary Probate {unknown] and for the State and District aforesaid J R Hunnicut Tax Collector for Pickens District who being duly sworn according to law declares that he does pay to the aforesaid Sarah Mann the wife of Thomas Mann and who is set forth in the aforesaid Declaration the sum of Thirty dollars a pension allowed to her by the State of South Carolina for the services of her husband Thomas Mann in the Revolutionary war The service [illegible] a State pension must have been one [illegible].
J. R. Hunnicutt
Tax collector of Pickens S.C.

Sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that he a Respectable man and worthy of Belief
J. E. Hagood
Not Pub [notary public]

I W. L Keith Clerk of the Court of General XX and Commission [unknown] for Pickens District in the State of South Carolina do hereby certify that J. E. Hagood is a Notary Public as within stated and the Signature purporting to be his is genuine and all due faith and credit is due and ought to be his to all his official acts [illegible] officer
Given under my Hand Seal of office at Pickens CH this 7th May 1855
W. L Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District S.C.
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No. 7.929.
Sarah Mann
widow of Thos
S.C.
Let to claimant May 31, 1853
6876
Act 4 July 1836
286153
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77,545
[unknown] Acris
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286.053
Official Business
Geo C. Whiting Esq.
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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W. V Setter [unknown] Easley
Jan 1853
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Greenville Jany 20th 1853
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Mrs Mann whose application for a pension is herewith enclosed has requested me to forward to your office the accompanying papers. If you should desire to communicate with her please do so through my care at Greenville C.H. [unknown]
Respectfully
[unknown] Heath
W. K. Easley
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286.053
Declaration of
Sarah Mann
wid - Thomas
Act 3rd March 1855
Bounty Land.
Thompson Jones
Attorney.
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[Marked through ; Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1870.]

[Stamped] REJECTED
6876
P.o.
Sarah Mann

Service

Enlisted:  18
Discharged:  18
Application filed:  18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
ley
Recognized. Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for  18
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State of South Carolina
Pickens District
Personally appears before me the subscribing magistrate R. H. Maty and being sworn says an oath: That he is sixty one years of age: That he knew intimately Thomas Mann from 1820 until the time of his death: That this, his decrease, occurred in 1804 That at the time of his death the said Thomas Mann reported him self to be and had the appearance of being Eighty one years of age: That the said Thomas was reputed and generally believed to have been a revolutionary soldier. That since his death the, deponent, has known Mrs Sarah Mann widow of the said Thomas Mann That she has not married but remains in widowhood and that she has the appearance of being niney one or two years old
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of November 1852
W. J. Gantt a Magistrate of Pickens District South Carolina
Pickens Seal

I Geo. L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District in the State of South Carolina do hereby certify that W. J. Gantt is a Magistrate or above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine he was duly appointed, Commissioned and qualified and all due faith should be given to all his official acts as such officer
Given under my hand and seal of the Court at Pickens Court House this 30th day of Novm A.D. 1852
W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court for Pickens District S.C.
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State of South Carolina
Pickens District
Personally appears before me Benjamin Hagood and being duly sworn according to law says that he knew in his life time Thomas Mann the husband of Sarah Mann That he Benjamin Hagood was a member of the south Carolina legislature at the time that Gaddy granted a Pension to said Thomas Mann for Revolutionary services and that he became very familiar with the proof of the service submitted to the legislature by the said Thomas Mann and that he remembers very distinctly that they were of a character distinctly satisfactory to the legislature of which he was a member at that time that he was a  Revolutionary soldier and he also further states that the said Thomas Mann proved as good service as any man that we had made proof before that body and that Thomas Mann had the reputation of the County as being a Revolutionary soldier and that Sarah Mann the applicant was reputed and known in the community as his wife the (said Thomas Mann) and that she Sarah Mann has the appearance of being ninety one years of age and that this deponents age is sixty three years
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 15th day of January 1853
Benjamin Hagood
J. E. Hagood
Not Pub
P.C
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I W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District District in the State of South Carolina do hereby certify that James E. Hagood is a Magistrate as within mentioned and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. he was duly appointed Commissioned and qualified and all due faith and Credit is due and aught to be given to all his official acts or such
Sworn under my hand and seal of the Court at Pickens Court House this 17th day of Jany A.D. 1853.
W. L. Keith Clerk
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No. 7.929
Sarah Mann
widow of Thos
S.C.
Declaration
3 Dec
Act 4 July 1836

Care
W.K. Easley
Greenville
S.C.
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State of South Carolina
Pickens District
On this the second day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, Personally appears before the Court of Ordinary for Pickens District and State aforesaid, in open Court Sarah Mann formerly Sarah Tacket, aged Ninety-one years, who being sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July the Fourth A.D. 1836- That she is the widow of Thomas Mann, deceased, who was a soldier in the South Carolina Militia in the Revolutionary War. That her said Husband entered the Army as a private as she believes either in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Nine or Seventeen hundred and Eighty. That he enlisted in Abbeville District and State aforesaid and served under Generals Pickens, Morgan and Williamson in South Carolina - That he was at the Battles of Eutaw Springs and Kings Mountain and at the sieges of Ninety Six and Augusta, and that he served as she believes until the close of the War, and she further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Mann on the First day of May A.D. 1781. That her Husband the aforesaid Thomas Mann died on the 31st day of May A.D. 1834. That she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed. She further says that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim.
Sworn to and subscribed on the Day and Year above written before me.
Her
Sarah Mann
mark

W. J. Parsons
C.L.D
Seal Commission seal having no seal of office

State of South Carolina
Pickens District
I, Wm. J. Parsons, Judge of the Court
of Ordinary for Pickens District, and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Mrs. Sarah Mann the
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person making the within Declaration, is a person of good character and entitled to credit. I also certify that Benjamin Hagood and R. H. Malear and May Hembree, the persons, whose Affidavits are hereunto annexed, are persons of good character and are of the ages respectively deposed by them.
Witness my hand and seal this the 2nd day of November 1852
W. P. Parsons
Seal
O.P.C

No. 7.929
Sarah Mann
widow of Thos
S.C.
Declaration
3 Dec
Act 4 July 1836

State of South Carolina
Pickens District.
I, Wm. L. Keith, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Pickens District and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Wm. Parsons is the acting Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the District and State aforesaid, whose name is subscribed above.
In testimony where unto I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Pickens Court House this 30th day of Nov. A.D. 1852
W. L. Keith, Clerk of the Court for Pickens District
So. Ca.