Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,714, Richard Brandon, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE   S.C. 
Brandon, Richard
Agnes or Nancy
NUMBER  W. 21,714
CONTENTS
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5. 145
South Carolina
Agnes or Nancy Brandon
widow of Richard Brandon
who died on the [blank space]
of S.C. in the State of [blank space]
who was a pri. in the Cavalry commanded
by Captain [blank space] of the [blank space] commanded
by [blank space] in the [blank space]
Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Charleston
at the rate of 54 Dollars 16 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4 day of
March, 1831 & Ending 9 Feb. 1840

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of
July 1852 and sent to
Hon. D. Wallance
H of R
Arrears to the 4th of [blank space]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank space]

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the [blank space]}
Recorded by R. McRae, Clerk
Book D   Vol. 2  Page 383
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State of South Carolina
Union District
February A.D. 1852 By
Judge of the Court
trict and State afore
ed Elizabeth Brandon
duly sworn accord
on her oath make
declaration in ord
of the provision M
Congress passed July
act granting half
to certain Widows
That this decla
herself and the Surr
her mother Agness
Richard Brandon
trict decd state that her Father Richard
Brandon was an officer and private
soldier in the army of the Revolution
as she has always understood and
still believes and as such he served
the United States against the com
mon enemy from the Commencement
of hostilities untill he was killed in
in the service of his country in June
1781,- Declarant further state that her
Father entered the service of his county
as a private hoseman Capt Jollys com

Agness Kincaid
was born Oct 1752
Lettis Brandon Has
January the 9 1775
John Brandon Was
born March the 17 76
.
Elizabeth Brandon Was
Born - November the 7  1777
Katharine Brandon
Was born June the 23 1770
George Brandon Was
born Febr 11th of 1780
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King.
Plead, Lord, with those that plead, and fight
Praise waits for thee in Sion, Lord
Praise God, for he is good, for still
Praise ye the Lord: with my whole heart 
Praise ye the Lord. The man is bless'd
Praise God: ye servants of the Lord,
Praise ye the Lord, the Lord's name praise,
Praise God, for he is kind,
Praise God: the Lord praise, O my soul,
Praise ye the Lord; for it is good
Praise God, From heavens praise the Lord,
Praise ye the Lord : unto him sing
Praise ye the Lord God's praise within 
S.
Save me, O God, by thy great name,
shew mercy, Lord, to me, for man
save me, O God, because the floods
bing loud to God our strength; with joy
T.
That man hath perfect bleffedness,
That there is not a God, the foul
Thee will I love, O Lord, my strength,
The heav'ns God's glory do declare
The king in thy great strength, O Lord,
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There's my
strange
The city God, the Lord
The mighty God, the Lord, hath spoke,
That there is not a God, the food
To thee, O God, do we give thanks,
To render thanks unto the Lord,
The Lord doth reign, and cloth'd is he
The eternal Lord doth reign as king
The Lord did say unto my Lord,
They in the Lord that firmly truit,
Thee will I praife with all my heart,
U. W.
unto the Lord, I with my voice,
Upon the hills of holiness
Why rage the Heathen? and vain things
Wherefore is it that thou, O Lord,
within thy tabernacle, Lord
Why dost thou boat, O mighty man,
When to thee my prayer make,
when firel out of Egypt went
When sin's bondage Cod turn'd back
righteous, in the Lord rejoice;
Yet God is good to lack

Sarah Ann Mitchell
Was born Ooctober
15th 1815
Harret Mitchell
was born 1815
Bendon Mitchell
B Johnson
Judge of ordinary Union District

for services of her Father
hide she distintly recollects
four years of age past
her
Elizabeth X Brandon
mark
of the Court of ordiny for the District
hereby certify that it has been
the satisfaction of the court
mmonly called Nancy Brandon
don who was killed in Brandy
South Carolina in the time
and that the said Agnes,
State of South Carolina
as per anum and that she
ion District South Carolina
say one thousand Eight
the following children
her surviving to wit Catherine Becknal Elizabeth
Brandon the declarant and George Brandon and
that Catherine Becknal has since died and that
George & Elizabeth Brandon is now her only surviving
children and both of lawfull age and that the
statement of Elizabeth Brandon the declarant is
entitled to full credence Given
hand and seal of office at Union
Court House the 6 day of Febry 1852
in open Court
B. Johnson
Judge of the Court of Ordinary
of Union District, So.Ca.
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State of South Carolina, }
Union District }    On this 6th day of February A.D. 1852 Before me B. Johnson Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the district and State aforesaid Personally appeared Elizabeth Brandon 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 Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows
That this declarant in behalf of herself and the surving children of her mother Agness Brandon widow of Richard Brandon late of Union District decd state that her Father Richard Brandon was an officer and private
soldier in the army of the Revolution as she has always understood and still believes and as such he seved the United States against the common enemy from the commencement of hostilities untill he was killed in in the service of his country in June 1781. - Declarant further state that her Father entered the service of his County as a private hoseman Capt Jollys Com-
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Col Brandons Regment shortly after the Commencement of hostilities and was afterwards promoted to the rank of Sergeant or Quartermaster in his Brother Col Brandons Redgment untill he was killed at Brandons defeat in Union District S.C. the last of June 1781 as above stated for which her Mother Agness or Nancy Brandon was allowed first an annuity and then a pension by the State of South Carolina at the rate of $60 perannum which she continued to draw untill the time of her death but to give the particulars of his said Fathers services declarant cannot but always understood he was in the battles of Blackstocks Kings Mountain Cowpens and at Brandons defeat where he was killed as above stated & was in in the snow campain for some
three months then in the Florida campain some four months in 1775 and 1776 and then in Brandows Redgment after the fall of Carleston as above stated under General Sumter as a horseman until his death
Decarant further states that her father Richard Brandon was married to her mother Agness Brandon the winter or spring of 1773.
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And as husband and wife they lived together, until the death of her husand the said Richard Brandon as above stated leaving the said Aness a widow and that her mother the
said Agness departed this life in the in Union District on the ninth day of February one thousand eight humdred and forty (1840) not having intermaried after the death of her aforesaid husband and leaving the following children her surviving to wit Catharine Becknell. George Brandon and Declarant two of whom to wit George Brandon and declarant are still living and both of age.
Declarant further states that she was not aware untill recently that her mother was entitled to a pension from the United States suposing she was precluded by drawing a pension from this state
Declarant would offer in support of the marige of her father and mother their original family register which has alwas been kept in the family and is believed to be strictly correct and is hereunto appended
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above mentioned
the
Elizabeth X Brandon
mark
B. Johnson
Judge of ordry of Union District
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The declarant further states that a man by the name of Potter that lived on Packelett  collected or got one of the Indents for the services of her Father Richard Brandon which she distinctly recollects and she is now seventy four years of age past
her
Elizabeth X Brandon
mark
B. Johnson
Judge of the Court of Ordy for Union District
I B Johnson Judge of the Court of ordnry for the District and State aforesaid do herby certify that it has been shown in evidence to the satisfaction of the court that Agness Brandon commonly called Nancy Brandon widow of Richard Brandon who was killed in Brandy defeat union District South Carolina in the time of the Revolutionary war and that the said Agness was a pensioner of the State of South Carolina and the rate of Sixty Dollars per annum and that she departed this life in Union District South Carolina on the ninth day of February one Thousand Eight Hundred & forty leaving the following children her surviving to wit Catherine Becknal Elizabeth Brandon the declarant and George Brandon and that Catherine Becknal has since died and that George & Elizabeth Brandon is now her only surviving children and both of lawfull age and that the statement of Elizabeth Brandon the declarant is intitled to full credence Given and
hand and seal of office at Union Court House the 6 day of February 1852 in open Court
B. Johnson
Judge of the Court of Ordnry of Union District, So. Ca.
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JS
Rev. War.
OW
April 30, 1912.
Miss Peytona Barry,
Gallatin, Tenn.
Madam:
In response to personal request of the 24" instant, you are advised that in the papers in pension claim W. File No. 21,714, Rev. War, it is stated that Richard Brandon who served as a soldier and an officer in the War of the Revolution, entered the service shortly after the beginning of hostilities, as a Private horseman of Captain Jolly's company, in Colonel Brandon's regiment; that he was afterwards promoted Sergeant or Quartermaster in (his brother's) Colonel Brandon's regiment, in which he served until he was killed at " Brandon's Defeat " in Union District, South Carolina, in June, 1781; and that he served in the Snow Campaign, Florida campaign; and was in the battles of Kings Mountain, Blackstocks and Cowpens.
Soldier married in the Winter or spring of 1773, Agnes or Nancy Kencad, and she was allowed pension by the State of South Carolina, as long as she lived.
Children: Lettis born January 9, 1775; John born March 6, 1776; Elizabeth born November 7, 1777; Catharine born June 3, 1779; George born July 17, 1780; and daughter Jane, who being under twelve years of age in March, 1793, was also a state pensioner.
Agnes or Nancy Brandon died February 9, 1840, in Union
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W. File No. 21,714.   ( 2 )
District, South Carolina, leaving three children; Catharine wife of Dabney Becknell; George and Elizabeth Brandon.
Catharine Becknell died January 6, 1852, and on February 5, 1852, Elizabeth Brandon of Union District, South Carolina, applied for the pension which would have been due her mother from the United States Government, and the same was allowed.
You are further advised that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to any other Richard Brandon of South Carolina or North Carolina.
Very respectfully,
J C Davenport
Commissioner.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21714
Agnes of Nancy Brandon
Wid of
Richard Brandon
Priv, Rev. War.
Act: July 4th 1836.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1912 Apl. 30. History to Miss
Petona Barry C
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Richard Brandon

30/ 398
13
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Comptroller Genl's Office
Columbia So. Ca.
March 25th 1852.
No 2341 }
X }  Issued 7 Apl 1786 to Richd Brandon for Fifty five Pounds 14/ 3 ¼ Stg for Militia Duty in Jolley's Compy Brandon's Regt p account audited
Principal [pound symbol] 55: 14. 3 1/4. Interest [pound symbol] 3: 17: 11
No 104: 

No. 104
No 2341 Book X 
7 April 1786. Richard Brandon for 390 days duty as horseman from the 7th May 1780 to 25th June 1781 alternately in Capt Jolleys Company of Colo. Brandons Regt @ 20/ p. day
[pound symbol] 390 ---
Sterling  [pound symbol] 55.14. 3 1/4

The State of South Carolina
To Richard Brandon Dr
To 390 Days duty as Horseman from the 7th May 1780 to the 25th June 1781 & paybill of Capt Jolley Certd p Colo Brandon } 390
Stg [pound symbol] 55. 11 3/4
Received full satisfaction for the within in an Indent No 2341 X p order (signed) Thos Brandon
Executor

No 1702 }
Lib X } Issued the 3d of March 1786 to the widow Brandon for the estate of Richard Brandon for seven pounds ten shillings ster. for a horse lost in the service as p account passed by the Commissioner
No 45 Principal [pound symbol] 7: 10. 0. Int [pound symbol] 0: 10: 6.

No 45 }
No 1702 } Este of Mr. Richard Brandon his account of a horse lost in service Amotg to [pound symbol] 7. 10 Stg
82  Gentlemen
Please to deliver my Indent to Col Thomas Brandon he having paid me the full valuation for the same
From Yr Obt Servt
his 
Agnis X Brandon
Mark
widow of Richard Brandon Decd
To the Comisoners of the Treasury
Test Wm Farr J.P.
I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true Copy as taken from the Records of this Office
For Comptroller Genl
James A Black
Dep.
(No Seal of Office}
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Certificate of Credibility
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Pension claim of Elizabeth Brandon.
I am personally acquainted with all the witnesses in this case, they are & have been for twenty years my near neighbors. They are all of great respectability & entitled to full faith & credit. The Battle Ground where Gen Thomas Brandon was defeated & where Richard Branden was killed, is in the immediate neighborhood of the witnesses, where they were born & have lived as I believe ever since.  All the signatures are genuine.
D Wallace
M C
Feby 1852
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House Repr as
Washington Feby 20 1852
Sir
I inclose declaration & other evidence in the Revolutionary Pension claim of Elizabeth Brandon of Union District SC, which are based upon the services of Richard Brandon who was a soldier of the revolution until killed in Battle within two miles of my residence in Greenville in 1781 -  I ask that the papers be filed, & as soon as the Record evidence is forwarded to me, I will place that on file in the case also.
I have the honor to be
Your Obt Servt
D Wallace
Hon J E Heath
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Brief in the case of Agnes or Nancy Brandon wid Richd
County and State of S. C.
act 4 July 1836.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")  [preceding two words lined out.]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Record evidence of service and Documentary
of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?--
Name and residence of Agent
Hon D. Wallace
H of Reps.
Kirby
Examining Clerk.
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April 7/52
Addl evi: case
Nancy Brandon
widow of Richd
Hon D Wallace
H. of R.
D Wallace
M C
Hon J. E. Heath
Dept Interior
Washington
D.C.
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No 7.810.
Elizabeth Brandon
widow of Richard
So Ca
Let to Hon D. Wallace
June 10, 1852.
Act July 4th/36.
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Feb 21 - 52
Appl of Elizth
Brandon wid:
of Richd
Hon. D. Wallace
H. R
D Wallace
M C
Hon James E Heath
Dept Interior
Washington
D.C
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Washington April 6 1832
Sir
I have the honor to inclose the Record Evidence in the Revolutionary
pension claim of Nancy Brandon, Widow of Richard Brandon of S.C. and ask that it be filed with the declaration & Evidence which I
forwarded to the Department about the 25 Feby last
I have the honor to be
with much respect
Your Obt Servt
D Wallace

Hon J E Heath
Dept Interior
P. S. The claim is for 397 days of Cavalry service in the Snow & Indian Campaigns.  This is I believe established by the Record Evidence now
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presented.  The papers will show if the claim be for other service addition to this ---  DW
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J. E. H.
5 4. 16.

12.) 50 (4. 16
48
20
12
80
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decD
Agness or Nancy Brandon
wid of Richard
S. Carolina
Act 4 July 1836
13 mo prI of horse $54.16
per an. to 9th Feby 1840
when she died -
Payable to
Catharine Becknal
Elizabeth Brandon
& George Brandon
only surviving children
cert to
Hon D. Wallace,
H of Reps.
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The State of South Carolina }
Union District }  Personally appeared before me Dabney Becknell a citizen of the District and State aforesaid aged upwards of seventy two years and upon being duly sworn saith: that he was personally and intimately acquainted with Agnes Brandon since the year 1802 and that the said Agnes Brandon was said to be the widow of Richard Brandon who was killed at Brandon's Defeat in Union District South Carolina in 1781, and that he knows of his own personal knowledge that the said Agnes or Nancy Brandon was a pensioner of the State of South Carolina at the rate of Sixty dollars per annum for many years previous to her death, which occurred on the ninth day of
February 1840. She left three children her surviving, towit Catharine Becknell, Elizabeth Brandon and George Brandon, and that Catharine Becknell departed this life about the sixth day of January 1852
Dabney Becknell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th
of February 1852
Benj. F. Arthur
Magtr 
G. D. A. Brandon also a citizen of the District and State aforesaid, aged forty five years personally appeared before me and saith on oath that he is the grandson of Agnes (commonly called Nancy) Brandon and that he believes her to be the widow of Richard Brandon mentioned in the foregoing affidavit; and that he knows of his own personal knowledge that she had drawn
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a pension latterly at the rate of sixty dollars per annum, for the State of South Carolina from his earliest recollection up to the time of her death
G D A Brandon
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 5th February 1852
Benj. F Arthur
Magt

I Benj. F Arthur one of the Magistrates in and for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Dabney Becknell and G D A Brandon whose affidavits appear above and that they are persons of respectability & their oaths are entitled to credit.
Given under my hand and Seal this 5th Feby 1852
Benj. F Arthur  {LS}
Magt
South Carolina }
Union District }  Personally appeared C. S. Mercy a citizen of the District and State
aforesaid aged about fifty years, and makes oath that he was intimately acquainted with Mrs Agnes (or Nancy) Brandon -- that she was the widow of Richard Brandon who was killed in the Revolutionary war at Brandons defeat in Union District South Carolina and knows that she was a pensioner of the State of South Carolina - that his father was tax-collector of
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Union District and he has frequently seen Mrs Brandon receive her pension from him. Her husband Richard Brandon had the reputation of having been a good soldier in the revolution and that he has no hesitation in saying from the tradition of the neighbourhood that she was the widow of the said Richard Brandon, as deponent lived within one mile of the residence of the said Nancy or Agnes Brandon until he was grown, and has often heard the statements made above from her own lips.  Deponent further saith that Elizabeth Brandon, George Brandon and Catharine Becknell, were the only children she left her surviving, and that Catharine Becknell died in January 1852, leaving a husband Dabney Becknell, and children her surviving.
C. S. Mercy
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th February 1852
Benj. F. Arthur
Magt
I, Benj. F Arthur one of the Magistrates for the District and State aforesaid do hereby certify
that I am acquainted with C.S. Mercy who affidavit appears above and that he is a respectable citizen and his statements are entitled to due faith and credit
Given under my hand and seal this 6 February 1852
B F Arthur  {LS}
Magistrate
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The State of South Carolina }
Union District }  I J. G. McKissick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Union District in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin F. Arthur before whom the foregoing affidavits of Dabney Becknal, G. D A Brandon and C. S Mercy was made, (as appears by his name in his own hand writing attesting the same) and whose name also appears to the foregoing certificates, is & was at the date thereof a Magistrate for the District aforesaid who had been duly appointed and qualified, and had signed the Roll kept according to Law in my office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Union Court House the Sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and fifty two, and in the Seventy Sixth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America

J. G. McKissick
C C P & G S
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Agnes Brandons
certificate
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(Copy)
State So Carolina To Agnes Brandon drtor as widow of Richard Brandon who fell in the service of this sta in the year 1781 Balance due
hir self  [pound symbol] 5. 0
for the year 1792 & for the year 1793   5 0
State So Carolina }
Union County } Personally came Agnes Brandon & made oath she has not any negro nor lands to prevent her from recieving her annuity 
Sworn to this 15 day of November 1794
(signed) Thomas Brandon  J.G.C.
I certify that to my knowledge said Agnes Brandon has taken the oath before me as by law directed and as to my knowledge
Nownegon
(Signed) Thos Brandon JCC {LS}
JN Blassengame  {LS}
State So Carolina Union County to Agnes Brandon widow of Richard Brandon Dr for herself and one child under the age of twelve years to March one thousand seven hundred and ninety two the sum of [pound symbol] 7. 0. 0
State So Carolina Union County to Agnes Brandon a widow of Richard Brandon Dr for herself to March seven hundred and ninety three the sum of [pound symbol] 5. 0. 0.
Personally appd Agnes Brandon widder before me this day and made oath as the law directs and saith that the above account is just & true & that she is not possesed of any negroes Sworn to before me this 4th June 1793
her
Signed / Agnes X Brandon
mark
Benj Woodson J.P.
John Henderson J. N. C.
Jno Blasingame J.N.C
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(Endorsed)
Received of the within order for Agnes Brandon one years annuity for 1793 being [pound symbol] 5. 0. 0
(Signed) Thos Brandon
Sir - Please pay the within & Adam Potter Esquire value recieved of him
Thos Brandon
her 
Agnes X Brandon
mark
Benj Waring Esq
15th June 1783
Commissioner of the Treas.y So Carolina
Recd the within seven pounds in full for the within
17th June 1793
Adam Potter
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Recd. this 20th Dec. 1792 of B Waring Treas an order on Adam Potter (Tax Collector of Union, for fourteen pounds being full for annuities due Agnes Brandon & Jane Brandon to March 1791
Thos Brandon
[pound symbol] 9 to Agnes
5 to Jane
[pound symbol] 14

Treasury Office Columbia }
March the 25th 1852 }  I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies of the originals in the Office. I furthermore certify that from the Records of this office it appears that Agnes Brandon was placed on the Pension Roll of this State in the year 1801 That she drew a pension of $21.42 until 1817 that she afterwards was allowed and paid $60 a year until the month of August 1839 when the last payment was made her
Given under my hand and seal of office the day and year above written
R. C. Griffin
Treasurer. Upp Der
c/a Thomas Frean
Dep. Treas
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Send record of Col. Richard Brandon, S. C. 
W. 21714 to 
Miss Peytona Barry
Gallatin Tenn
APR 24 1912  ACK
And say no Col. Richard Brandon of N. C. on file.
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W 4643
Brandon Thomas
Margaret
see Brandom, Thomas.