Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16829, Benjamin Glover, N.C. Va.
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N.C. Glover,Benjamin      S16829
Va.
B MD Carded

This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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475th
Alabama
Benjamin Glover
of Madeth to in the State of Alabama
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Harris
of the commanded


by Gen Washington in the
and N. C.
Militia for fourteen months prior
Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Jun 1833 and illegible 6.
Clay and sent H.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832
70.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending Hillard 1833 23.33
Died Feb. 20, 1840
A.F.
Dott 93.33
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Henry H. Sylvster
Cler
Book D
Vol. 10
Page 201
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Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838 at
notified 11 April 1839
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER 
Received from GAO
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ORIGINAL.
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, July 7 1840
Received of Bartley M. Lowe, Agent for paying Pensions in Specie
Twenty one Dollars, - 47 Cents, being for five
months and 16 days Pension due to Benjamin Glover, Deceased from the 4
day of September 1839 to the 20 day of February
1840 the day of his death for which I have signed duplicate receipts
Rub B Andron Atto
infact for the Heirs of Benjamin Glover Dec.
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State of Alabama
Madison County

On this 24 day of October 1832 personly [personally] appeared before me John C Grason a justice of the peace for said County of Madison Benjamin Glover, a resident of said County of Madison aged seventy nine years who being first [crossed out "sworn"] duely [duly] sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the [illegible] 1832, That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
Affiant was born in the County of Arnold in the State of Maryland the 17 day of June 1753, and removed into the State of Virginia [illegible] County and about the year 1773 there was a call from that county for 500 men, and one Benja [Benjamin] Harris being then a Capt [Captain] turned out to raise a volunteer company and to go [crossed out "against"] to Gen [General] Washington whoes [whose] head quarters was some where near Philadelphia, affiant volunteered under said Harris, Capt [Captain] Blackwell commanded the Militia a part of the said quota of $500, affiant was marched with the said Benjamin Harris, [illegible] through the county to Fredrickstown, and [^from] there were [illegible] [^the Susquehana] for further orders where they should join the general army they lay on the banks of the Susquehanna, for a considerable time before the company had reached this station the news had been received that Gen [General] Washington had fought the battle of [illegible]. The army remained on the banks of said river until they receved [received] orders from the Commander in chief to return to their homes there being no immediate use for these troops affiant
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states that he had volunteered for six months in this expedition and affiant states he was in war in [illegible] in service the six months he volunteered for
After this affiant moved from Virginia to North Carolina and was there but a little time until he went on several
scouting parties, after tories &c the time in this kind of service not remembered after this affiant was drafted
in Wilkes County in said State to go to Join Gen. Green on the Pe Dee River, and affiant [illegible] his officers, William Noll was the Capt, Benjam Cleaveland was the Col, this company went through Salsbury and Charlotte on to the encampment of Gen Green but when the company reached
the point proposed Gen Green had marched
to the State of South Carolina in great haste
it was said almost in a run & Talton pursuing 
him with all speed the army with which offered war or rather company finding it impossible to
overtak [overtake] Gen Green, were marched to Salsbury about fifty miles off there they were in much
demand and affiant and the said company were stationed there as guard to the prisoners five hundred British were taken at the Cowpens and four hundred tories taken at Rugellas Mill along
these tories were taken by Col Morgan by
a device of burning a pine log and sending them word that he would fire on the immediately
if they did not give of their arms they submitted without resistance, he guarded these prisoners for about two months they were then removed into the State of Virginia affiant accompanied
them as a guard as far as [illegible]and their
the Virginia troops took them in possession and affiant was discharged and made his way home from the Virginia line. his way lay through
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a country beset with [Tories] and in addition there [were] British Light [unintelligible] scattered through the country so that affiant had to make his way home along by paths and secret ways sometimes sleeping by day and travelling all night he was [entered] at a house which he thought [secure] but was surprised by a British Col. by the name of [unintelligible] he took him [prisoner], affiant learning then for the first time that he was in a half a mile of Col. [unintelligible] main army, he was however exchanged in a short time and he returned home to his friends who had supposed him dead. [unintelligible] this expedition he was drafted for three months but was detained as above stated for [above/about] five months in active service. [Next] he volunteered from said County to under Capt. [unintelligible], and Cleaveland [unintelligible] this expedition was for the King's mountain and the affiant being of the foot did not reach the mountain before the battle, but they came within hearing of the battle they could hear the firing of the guns distinctly before the news reached them that the battle was over. Col. Cleaveland's men and Col. [Campbell's] men were ordered to conduct the prisoners about seven hundred in number to the barracks in Virginia affiant went with said troops under a guard, affiant cannot remember the time of the battle, but it was about the first of pulling [unintelligible] time. After this affiant returned home, after being in service in this campaign about four months but the time not distinctly remembered. While affiant and the army were absent [to] King's mountain the [Tories] taking advantage of our absence [embodied] at a place called [unintelligible] and the old men
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and boys that were left turned out and met the Tories at a mountain just by the said ford on the adkin (illegible) and there had a battle in which 14 Tories were killed the rest running away on officers(?) return he after cutting out as sufficient number of bullets out of the (rest ?) of (the ?) battle ground, shouldered his napsack again in obedience to a general order that a certain number of men should be raised to defend the county from the 



tories and british and the indians then incited
by the british to repeated hostilities at this time the whole country seemed to be in commotion and every man was called on to be ready or to go into immediate service. Sufficient was called out into service under our Captain John Robins and went
with him over on New river to disperse the tories and (illegible) other places whenever the enemy turned to be embodying or approaching Robins men of which officers was one went immediately to the spot they being engaged affiant was not ordered to join the main army but was stationed above
at different points to repell the enemy in the hope of tories &c, in this service (officers?) was in the service of the United States about five or
such months. Affiant served a short time while at Salsbury as above stated under a Continental officer by the name of LeVard a Capt.. (Affiant ?) will here state he has given the above account in the best manner he could that from his extreme age and infirmities more than age those things that (illegible) in services in his youth have almost vanished from his fading memory that (illegible) and decease have so impaired his faculties that he can recall with great difficulty its ported energies into action particularly about things that took place more than half a century ago the time of his age or record thereof was in a family bible but now burnt or lost
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Affiant states that after peace was declared
unto the state of Georgia, in the County of Elbert, from hence he removed to the County
of Madison and State of Alabama where
he has lived ever since, he will from his services by John Glover & Ezekial Craft
Affiant will further state here what he had forgotten that while in Wilks County in the
State of North Carolina, according to the
the regulations of the war department of those days, he with sixty others hired a substitute by
the name of David Mires to enlist for the time of three years he did so serve after being thus
employed but affiant, not withstanding he
paid ten Dollars as his portion for his substitute was constantly under arms as above stated and thinks that he served his country during the Revolutionary war. their years as a revolutionary soldier, can prove his service by E Croft & John Glover, said affiant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. affiant will here state that for all the service rendered as above he never
has as yet received one cent. that no
Sworn to and Subscribe 
unto before me this
24th day of October 1832
John Glover JP

mark - Benjamin Glover
We Ezekiel Croft a clergyman residing in the County of Madison and state of Alabama , and Edward H Vann
residing in
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in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Benjamin Glover who has subscribed and sworn to the
above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy
nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the 
neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the 
Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 24th day of
October 1832 John C Grayson JP
Ezekiel Crafton
Edward H Varm [sic]
And the said Ezekiel Craft further states that he is a
neighbour and intimate acquaintance of the said
Benjamin Glover, and having conversed with him
often many years ago will mention many little 
circumstances as to the time of the fale a dan [sic], a 
description of the country through which he marched, a 
description of the officers and the lines of March satisfyes
this affiant that he served as above stated in his
declaration for affiant was then in the army
and on one occasion was on one side of the
River Adkin while said Glover was on the other
the officers as stated in the declaration affiant
was well acquainted with. And this affiant will
state that from the known integrity and honest
walk of life of the said Benjamin Glover he
has no hesitation (in addition to the circumstances
 above stated, to declare his firm conviction
that the whole statement as set forth
in his declaration is true in substance and fact
Ezekiel Croft
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 24th day
of October 1832
John C. Grayson JP
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No 11
Benjamin Glover
Act 7 June 1832
Huntsville Alabama
3rd D. 1840
Bdl. # 15
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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James S. Glover
Elizabeth Glover
Silas M Glover
Polly Vann
Nancy Grayson

[stamp] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Know all men by these presents, that we, James S. Glover, Richard Glover
and his wife Elizabeth, Silas  M. Glover, Jesse Vanns and wife Polly, and
John C. Grayson and his wife, Nancy, of the County of Madison, in the State of
Alabama, (the said James S. Elizabeth, Silas M - Polly and Nancy being the sons
and daughters of Benjamin Glover, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Richard B. Purdom
of the County and State aforesaid our true and lawful Attorney in Fact, for us
and in our names to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying
pensions, in the Town of Huntsville, in the State of Alabama, the balance of said Benjamin Glover's pension, from the fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty nine to the twentieth day of February, Eighteen hundred and forty, the
day of his death
Witness our hands and seals, this First day of July 1840
James S Govan ℗
Richard Glover X his mark
Elizabeth Glover ℗
Silas M Glover
Jesse Vann
Polly Vann
John C. Grayson
Nancy Grayson
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
test
Peter Maples
W Robinson

State of Alabama 
Madison County
Be it known that on the 1st day of July 1840
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the above named James T. Glover, Richard Glover and his wife Elizabeth, Silas M. Glover, Jesse Vann and his wife Polly, and John G. Grayson
and his wife, Nancy, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be true act and deed, respectively. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand
the day and year last above mentioned
Thos H. Woodall Justice of the Peace

State of Alabama  Be it known that on the sixth day of July 1840
Madison County before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, personally appeared Richard B. Purdom, the Attorney named
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in the foregoing Power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given
him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension or arrears of
pension therein authorized to be received by him.
Rich B. Purdom
Subscribed and sworn the day and
year last aforesaid, before me,
Jno B. Elbridge Justice of Peace.

The State of Alabama
Orphans Court of Madison County Special Term, this 23rd day of June 1840
D. Richard B. Purdon, Clerk of the County Court of Madison County in
the State of Alabama, and of the Orphans Count of said County do hereby
certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that
Benjamin Glover was a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of
forty six dollars and sixty six cents pr annum, was a resident of the
County of Madison, in the State of Alabama, and died in the County
and state aforesaid, on the twentieth day of February in the year, 
eighteen hundred and forty, that he left no widow, but two sons and their
Daughters, whose names are James S. Glover, Elizabeth Glover (wife of
Richard Glover), Silas M. Glover, Polly Vann (wife of Sep Vann), and Nancy Grayson (wife of John C. Grayson),
In testimony whereof, herewith subscribe my name 
and affix my seal of office, as officer in Huntsville, this
twenty third day of June one thousand eight hundred
and forty and of American Independence the
sixty fourth
Rich B. Purdon Clerk of the
Cty Ct of Madison by State of Alabama
I, Richard B. Purdon, Clerk of the County Court of Madison County
in the State of Alabama, do hereby certify that Thomas H. Woodall
and John B. Eldridge before whom the foregoing affidavits were
sworn are now and were at the date of the same Justices of the Peace in and
for the enmity aforesaid and that the foregoing signature purporting to
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[illegible]

In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and office the seal of said court at office in Huntsville this sixth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and forty and of American Independence the sixty fifth Year

Rich B. Purdom
Final Payment Voucher
Hom GAO
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removed from North Carolina to the Virginia barracks; he accompanied them as far as the "Maho" [note next time add (probably meant for Mayo) handwritten] was then discharged and while on his way back home from the Virginia line, was captured by the British, held as prisoner for a short time when he was discharged and returned home, length of this tour "above five months".  He volunteered under Captain Palmer Jud and Colonel Cleveland in the Kings Mountain expedition and acted as guard to the prisoners taken in that battle which were conducted also to the Virginia barracks, length of this tour about four months.  He enlisted and served five or six months as a private in Captain John Robins' North Carolina company.  He stated that his service during the Revolution amounted in all to between two and three years.

After the Revolutionary War Benjamin Glover moved to Elbert County, Georgia, and from there to Madison County, Alabama.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 24, 1832, while a resident of said Madison County, Alabama.

He died February 20, 1840.

No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.

In 1832, John Glover, soldier's brother, was a resident of Madison County, Alabama

No further family data appear in the claim.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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October 19, 1932 
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Benjamin Glover 
S. 16829
BA-J/MLB 

Mrs. G. B. Thames 
Ashland Place 
Mobile, Alabama 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which your request information in regard to Benjamin and Fred K. Glover, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States based upon military service of soldiers in that war. 

A careful search of records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of any soldier named Fred  or Frederick K. Glover. 

You are furnished herein the history of Benjamin Glover and the data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in his pension claim, S. 16829, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 

Benjamin Glover was born June 17, 1753, in "Arnold County" (possibly meant for Anne Arundel County), Maryland, and before the Revolution moved to Fauquier, Virginia. 

He volunteered very early in the Revolutionary War and served six months as a private in Captain Benjamin Harris' Virginia troops. He moved from Virginia, date not stated, to North Carolina, where he served on several scouting parties against the Tories; length of this service and name of officers not stated. He enlisted in Wilkes County, North Carolina, served in Captain William Noll's company, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina regimen, and for a short time in Captain "Le Vard's" North Carolina company, guarded the British and Tory prisoners taken at the battles of Rugley's Nills and Cowpens for about two months when they were
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removed from North Carolina to the Virginia barracks; he accompanied them as far as the "Maho" River,(next time add: [probably meant for Mayo] was then discharged and while on his way back home from the Virginia line, was captured by the British, held as prisoner for a short time when he was discharged and returned home, length of this tour " above five
months. He volunteered under Captain Palmer Jud and Colonel Cleveland in the Kings Mountain expedition and acted as guard
to the prisoners taken in that battle which were conducted also to the Virginia barracks, length of this tour about four months.
He enlisted and served five or six months as a private in Captain John Robins' North Carolina company. He stated that his service during the Revolution amounted in all to between two
and three years. After the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Glover moved to Elbert County, Georgia, and from there to Madison County, Alabama. He was allowed pension on his application executed October 24, 1832, while a resident of said Madison County, Alabama.
He died February 20, 1840. No reference was made in the claim to wife or children. In 1832, John Glover, soldier's brother, was a resident of Madison County, Alabama. No further family data appear in the claim. 
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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16829
INVALID.
OUR
File No. 16829
Benjamin Glover
Pre Rev war
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Act: June 7 39
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 144
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Oct. 23. 1900 Hists

Miss Sarah Walthall
Mobile Ala
1932 Oct 19-Hist. to
Mrs G. B. Thames-Mr LB.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 6th, 1839,
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States," Benjamin Glover,
-
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Huntsville, Ala. Agency, at
the rate of Forty six
Dollars and sixty six Cents
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837.
to the 4th March, 1838.
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Benj Glover
Grayson's SON
Payments to be made
at Mobile Alabama
by Pres  W.S. B. Bank 
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Alabama

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester
Clerk, in Book D vol 10
page 211

Stamped FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
RECEIVED FROM GAO
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Benjamin Glover of the State of Alabama who was a private in the Army of the revolution is entitled to receive Forty Six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on this 4th of March, 1834 and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United Sates,
this 24th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War
Examined and
Countersigned.
J L Edwards
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Received from J. J. Coalman for Benjamin Glover one hundred and Sixteen dollars and sixty five cents being the amount due Benjamin Glover on the within up to the 4 of September 1833-
This 6th December 1833
John C Grayson


FINAL VOUCHER
RECEIVED FROM GAC
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State of Alabama
Madison County
John Glover a brother of the said Benjamin Glover and resident of the said County of Madison makes oath that he was well acquainted with each expedition as above stated in the said Declaration of the said
Benjamin and he states that he well remembers that he the said Benjamin did serve as a volunteer and in Virginia and North Carolina and as a militiaman in the said State of North Carolina from Wilks County, and he here states that he did render the services to the government as stated in his declaration every [illegible] of it and he states the statement as to the the time of services and he knows to be with him or near him  for he was his brother and he was either with him or near him during all the time of the revolution. October the 24th 1832
(signature)
Glover
Sworn to and subscribed before me this  24th
day of October 1832
John C. Grayson

State of Alabama 
Madison County 
I, Richard B. Purdom, Clerk
of the County Court of said
County, do certify that John C. Grayson, for which the forgoing affidavit sworn, is now and was at the date of the same
in acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned as such, and that full faith and [illegible]
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an due to all his official acts as such:

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed and affixed the seal of said County Court at Office, in Huntsville, this tenth day of November A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty two and of American Independence the fifty
with
Rich B. Purdom-
Benj Glover
Declaration 
for a pension
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Benj Glover
Declaration for a Pension

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Benjamin Glover
Declaration for a pension
20442
[illegible] City, Alabama

proceedings (so far as certified by the said Judge of the said courts in the matter of application of Benjamin Glover for a pension. 
In Testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office the 17th day of November 1832 & 57 year of American Revolution'
L. Mead
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I know the hand writing of Leml Mead Esqr. & Linda Adair - These signatures are genuine.
The witnesses Ezekiel Craft & Edward H.
Vann an also known to me, personally & by
character. They are entitled to the fullest credit
Jan. 19th 1833
C.C. Clay
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State of Alabama}  L.L.
Madison County}

On this day of November 1832
personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable William J. Allen Judge of the Circuit Court and setting for the County of Madison aforesaid [illegible] respectable witnesses, who after being duly sworn and examined have
satisfied the Court and it doth hereby declare its opinion that the above named Benjamin Glover who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration was a Revolutionary soldier, and that he served as he states and further that from his extreme age and infirmities he
is unable to come to the court house to make his declaration in open Court without great danger to [illegible]
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And the Court further certifies that it appears to the said Ezekiel Craft who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman residing in said County of Madison And that Edward Vaan who has subscribed the same And John Glover who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding affidavit are residents of the said
County of Madison that they are credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
W. J. Adair
I, Samuel Mead Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Madison County and State of Alabama do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
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proceedings (so for as certified by the said Judge) of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Glover for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand & affixed
the seal of office this the 17th day
of November 1832 & 57 year of
American Independence
L. Mead
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RECEIVED
OCT 5 1932
RECEIPT SECION
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION
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(3 -- 469.)
Bureau of Pensions
Application No.
Certificate No.
BGlover and 
NAME OF SOLDIER
Fred K Glover
Co. illegible or
FOR LADY DESIRED.
S.O
INFORMATION DESIRED.
Army claim
Benj. File 16, 829, Md
line
Incl-1
C-061
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3 - 068.
(Old No. 3 -- 649.)
Bureau of Pensions,
Miss
Sarah Walthall
Oreagh
#400
Your S'L
Mobile Ala
Mr. Warner
Please give
this lady statement
of Case
Bryant
Oct 22. 03
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Mobile, Ala.
Oct. 3, 1932
Can you give me any
information pertaining to
these two names, in the
Revolutionary War-
Mrs G. B. Thames
Ashland Place,
Mobile, Ala.

RECEIVED
OCT 5 1932
RECEIPT SYSTEM
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION