Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,886, for William Morgan, North Carolina
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during the war, & he verily believes that he the said Morgan served out his time
Sworn to & subscribed before me }
this fourth day of May 1818 }
Thos. Callender
H. Potter DJUSNC
I Henry Potter, District Judge of the
States for the District of North Carolina,
do hereby certify, That from the foregoing affidavit I am satisfied, that William Morgan, the applicant for a pension therein named, did
serve in the war of the Revolution until the 
end thereof, or for the term of nine months or longer, in the Continental line, on the establishment, against the common enemy of the Country, as stated in said affidavits.
Given at Wilmington in the District of 
N. Carolina, the 4th day of May 1818.
H. Potter, DJUSNC
United States of America Dist. Cot of the [illegible] North Carolina District } for the Dist. of
[illegible]
Carleton Walker Clerk of the
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United States - North Caroline District
Jacob W Leonard Esqr. of Brunswick County
maketh Oath that he has in his possession the original Furlough to Wm Morgan, of which the foregoing is a true copy, & he verily believes the said Original to be genuine - Deponent further saith that all the foregoing are true copies from original paper in his possession
which were [illegible] his brother were procured by [illegible] purpose of 
obtaining the service right of land due to the said Morgan; and that he verily believes all the said papers to be genuine, and made out, with the official acts as they purport. Deponent also saith, that he is well acquainted with the handwriting of Major John Walker a copy whose certificate appears above,
and that the signature thereto is in the proper
handwriting of the said Majr. Walker - and that
he has always understood & doth believe that the said J. Walker was Major in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war, on the continental establishment. Deponent saith that the aforesaid original papers are essential to him in obtaining his land in the western country, & are retained for that purpose - that the said Wm. Morgan is the same who hath declared for a pension according to the late act of Congress - and that the said Morgan
is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support -and that he conveyed to Deponents Father his said service right of land thirty years ago, or upward.
Sworn to before me at Raleigh, the 24th Dec. 1818.
H. Potter DJUSNC
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North Carolina District.
I Henry Potter District Judge of the U States for the District aforesaid, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the aforesaid William Morgan is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And I now transmit the additional testimony had before me, and return the former proceedings & testimony, to the
Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant
to the directions of the act of Congress.
Raleigh 1st January 1819
H. Potter DJUSNC

John Walker, whose certificate is copied as
aforesaid, is dead - and Wm. Boylan, before
whom Wm. Polk's affidavit was taken, is known
to me as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Wake, and his signature thereto is in his own
handwriting.
1st Jany 1819
H. Potter DJUSNC

Major Leonard desires me to say that if? the evidence in this case be still incomplete, he will send on the original furlough, to the War Department, provided he can have it returned to him in a short time.
H. Potter