Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3766, John Frazer, Ga.
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE NUMBER Ga. Frazer John R. 3766 CONTENTS
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Declaration of
R. M. Jones
Admr.

John Joagen J.J.
Mio. Act of Jane, 1831

Files by
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Mathew-DO
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State of Georgia
County of Columbia On this the Seventh day of December One Thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally come before me Stephen Dolmo, a Judge of the Inferior Court for ____ said bounty of Columbia State of __________ Richard W. Jones Administration on the estate of John Frazer late of said bounty estate deceased who being first ______, sum ascending to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of _____ness passed ______ the 7th 1832 for the heirs of said deceased. And he declares upon oath, that to the best of his knowledge and belief that, the said John Frazer was a Lieutenant in the Georgia Continental Line from 1777 to 1782, and, he was then discharged from mental derangement, hence, he has not been able to obtain any definite account of his Revolutionary operations as the family are not ________ to inform one and the said John Frazier did not have mental capacity sufficient to do so, prior to his death. And he further declare if they said John Frazer on his heirs ever applied for the Pension due ___________________ __________ of his being and cognisant of it, and he _________ desires it for the purpose of giving it for their proper
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Ga. Frazer, John R. 3766
sustenance, the family being needy.
And he hereby declares, that, the said John Frazier died as [illegible] can find out (as the peculiar condition of affairs kept there from keeping a record, on the Tenth day of April_____1841, as will none fully appear by the affidavit hereunto affixed And he hereby relinquishes all claim in his legal capacity to any Pension & Annuity in the name of the said John Frazier, [illegible] the identical John Frazier, who was a Lieutenant in the Georgia Continental Line, except the present, & if his name is in the Reunion of the Agency of any State, he is not apprised of it. Sworn to and subscribed, the day & year alone written.
R W. Jones, Admin
We the undersigned hereby certify, that, Richard W Jones resident of this County is the lawful Administrator on the estate of John Frazier we seen his letters Administrator; he is a credible man, we have no doubt that John Frazier served as he states. 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year alone
Henry Ramsey
A [illegible]
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I Stephen Drane, Judge of the Inferior Court for & in said County & State, aforesaid, do hereby certify of my own personal knowledge, that, Richard W Jones is the Administrator of the estate of John Frazier late deceased of said County; that, the said Jones is a credible man, and, the said John Frazier was [illegible] all we can find out a Lieutenant in the Revolution & of the Georgia Line, and, was dismissed for derangement after serving five years on something of that kind. The alone affiants, are also, credible person resident of this County. Given under my hand & Seal, the day & year above.
Stephen Drane [illegible]
State of Georgia
Columbia County
[mark] Simmons Crawford Deputy
Clerk of the Superior_____ Court
for & in said County & State, hereby
certify, that, Stephen Drane was at the time of talking the above Declaration and affidavits, an acting Judge of the Inferior County for & in this County & State duly authorized to administer oaths [illegible] His signature is genuine & all his official acts authored to full faith & credit. I also, certify that, Richard W. Jones, is the Administrator, as he declares on the Estate of John
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Frazier, late of this County Deceased that he is duly sworn in, his bond duly filled, and he is legally qualified as this law dine its, to receive on disburse said effects, if any; which may exist, [illegible], he coming.
In testimony, where of, I have hereto set my hand & official seal. This the Eleventh day of December 1855. 
[seal/mark]
Simmons Crawford [illegible] CLK
Sup Co: Col County [illegible]
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3766 
John Frazier
(REJECTED) stamp
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39029
John Frazier dec'
Georgia

Fraud

Tho Lumpkin Jany 7
1856- R W Jones Jany
3101856-


5766

June 7 1832
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Dear Sir,
I enclose you the letters of Admr on the estate of James Stallings, Joseph Day, David Bradie, and John Frazier. If either of these claims were ever frauds, the Admrs never knew it, or, have any evidence of it. They all belonged to the Georgia Line, and are recorded I have no doubt at the proper department.
I enclose the evidence of John Frazier’s services, which was obtained by the heir to the estate last year, but, want of _____ _____, and an entire ignorance of the subject deterred her from farther prosecuting the matter.
If this evidence will answer you will please inform me, if not, I will pleasurably have it renamed.
I am Sir 
Respectfully
R M Jones
Jan 22, 1836
Dearing P.O.
Columbia Co. Geo
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Brief of the Case John
Frazier by Richard W Jones
Administrator, 

Georgia Lewice [illegible] 1782
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On the 7 Dec 1855 Richard M Jones an administrator on the estate of John Frazier declares that "to the best of his knowledge and belief, John Frazier was a Lieutenant in the Georgia Continental Line from 1777 to 1782 and was then discharged from mental derangement, hence he (the administrator) has not been able to obtain any definite account of his Revolutionary operations, as the family are not capacitated to inform one and that Frazier did not have mental capacity sufficient to do so prior to his death. What Frazier died as near as he can find out the peculiar condition of affairs kept them from keeping record on the 10th of April 1841–
Henry Ramsay and A. M. Street certify that Jones is admiral, he claims, that he is a credible man and they have no doubt but that Frazier served as he claims. –
Judge Stephen Drane certifies to the same.
This application was based upon a certificate of the Secretary of State of Georgia date October 26, 1853, that “W. John Frazier served as a lieutenant in the line of this state from January 1777 till the 1st July 1782 when he was deranged."
The Richard M. Jones, Admr, signs his name very differently from the agent and may be a different man–
Nothing ever offered as proof in this case since the papers were first filed
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Certificate of 
Lieut John Frazier

Rev. Mav
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This is to certify that Mr John Frazier served as lieutenant in the Line of This State from January 1777 ‘till the 1st July 1782, when he was deranged.
Savannah, 18th January 1785
John Habersham
Major late Geo line

Executive Department
Milledgeville Georgia
October 26 1855
I, L. H. Briscoe, Secretary of the Executive Department of the State of Georgia do hereby certify that the above is an accurate copy of an original paper of file in this department, touching the service and position of John Frazier in the war of the Revolution, filed and preserved under a Resolution of the State of Georgia to collect and keep all evidence of Revolutionary service and where “some competent person employed by the Executive to arrange and digest them in alphabetical order and under proper and distinct head.”
Given under my hand and seal
of the Executive Department at
the capital in Milledgeville the
day and year above written
L. H. Briscoe
Secy Ex Dept
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Sir
Your several letters are here.
The John Frazier case, I think
you mistake. He to was a [illegible] man
and, discharged on account of it & this is the meaning of the 
[illegible] certificate, indeed, the facts will be proven.
The David Bradie case 
I shall advise make [illegible], as I 
think, which it is just, it can clearly
be proven by any one (anyone) living.
The Stallings and Day cases can be proven clearly by me and other evidence.
Louis [illegible]
Respectfully
Dearing Geo
Feb 8 1836
R W Jones
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John Frazier deco
GA. ad 1832
Reports
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In the case of John Frazer, dec, of GA, act 1832
The papers are in the handwriting of Dr. A. A. Ramsay and the statements contained in them are the most part false. No John Frazer died in Columbia County in 1841, excepting a man far too young to have been in the Revolution, and he was buried near Dearing, and as I recollect, on  the land of John Harris.

In this case the important assertion was made and insisted on that Frazer was suffering from mental alienation which assertion was founded on the certificate that John Frazer was "deranged" July 1, 1782. (meaning that in consequence of the reduction of the forces he was thrown out of the service)

The fraud in this case is most manifest
June 18th 1856
S.G.Dodge
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John Frazier
GA- Original
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Washington DC
Dec 20th '68

Sir,
I herewith and so ??? dcd. of  R. W. Jones Admin of John Frazer, whose heirs claim a pension due him under the act of 7th June 1832.  
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Th Lumpkin

Hon. J. Minot,
Commissioner of Pensions
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STATE OF GEORGIA } By the court of Ordinary for said County:  Columbia County.

Whereas John Frazer late of Said County deceased, died intestate, having, while he lived and at the time of his death divers estates, real and personal, within, the said State, by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting the administration of the estate of the said deceased, and also a final dismission from the same, to the Court aforesaid, does of right belong: And, they desiring that the same may be well and truly administered and legally disposed of, Do Hereby Grant, unto Richard M Daces Administrat of full power , by the terms of these presents, to administer the entire estate, both real and personal, of said deceased, which to him in his lifetime and at the time of his death did belong, and to ask, demand, sue for, and receive the same, and to pay the debts in which the deceased stood bound, so far forth as his assets will extend according to law, and then the balance, if any to pay over to the legal heirs and distributees of the said deceased.