Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11900, William Wright, Va.
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Service Va. 
Wright, William Mary
Number R.11900
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State of Georgia
Heard County

Be it known that before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Mary Wright a resident citizen of said County & made Oath in due form of law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832 within the  various amendments thereto up to 3rd March 1853 as the widow of William Wright a Revolutionary Soldier of the State line Groups of Virginia. She stated her age as well as she can compute it at 105 years and that she is now the widow of said William Wright deceased, who was a private in a company of militia or state troops of Virginia Officers, names not recollected in the war of the Revolution & on the American side. To the best of her (beliefs) recollection her said husband entered the service of the said Virginia State troops on or about the year 1777 as appeared prior & afterwards a volunteer, the term of enterance (entrance) not recollected, he continued in actual service until near the close of the war or sometime about 1781 or 1782 and was honourably (honorably) discharged about the time last referred to, but the precise date not recollected but will be found by a refference (reference) to the Auditors Office on publick (public) accounts in Richmond Virginia. She further states that she was married to the said William Wright on the 8th day of May (about) the year 1795 in Wilks (Wilkes) County State of Georgia by one Esq. Evans. She states that she cannot name the (illegible) of Regiments or Officers attached to the service & pleads her extreme old age and consequent laps (lapse) of memory of such particulars. She further states that his discharge has been lost or mislaid so that she can give no account of his discharge. She further states that she knows of no record of their marriage either public or private but refers the department to the testimony of James Pritchett & Uel
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M. Mathews, Clergymen & Holson Almon & Hezekiah Almon & Jonathan M. Douglass who are old neighbours (neighbors) & citizens of her neighbourhood (neighborhood). She further states that her husband has given in & drawn lands in the land lottery and a Revolutionary Soldier. She further states that she knows of no person living whereby she can prove the services of her husband, besides what she has now stated.
She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or (if any) only on that of the agency of the state of Virginia, and that she is now a widow. Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 18th day of February A.D. 1856 & I certify that I have no interest in this claim.     her X mark
                                       Mary Wright
And I do hereby certify that I know the said deponent Mary Wright & believe her to be as above stated & that she is of the age she represents herself to be, and that she is a woman of indisputable truth & veracity in the neighbourhood (neighborhood) where she resides and that I am the owner of & reside upon a lot of land, which was drawn by her said husband William Wright as a Revolutionary Soldier in the state aforesaid.   
                                Wm T. Davis, J.P.

Mr. James Pritchett & Uel M. Mathews Clergymen residing in the County of Heard & State of Georgia & in the neighbourhood (neighborhood) do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mary Wright who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that we believe her to be of the age that she  is reputed 105 years, that she is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood (neighborhood) where she resides to have been & is now the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier & that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me.
James Pritchett
Uel M. Mathews
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We Holson Almon, Hezekiah Almon & Jonathan M. Douglass residing in the neighbourhood (neighborhood) State & County aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mary Wright the person who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that we know her to be the widow of William Wright from the circumstance of our having lived by her as neighbours (neighbors) both before & after her husband's decease, he having died in June 1836. We cannot testify to their marriage but knew them to live quietly together as husband & wife for several years and Jonathan M. Douglass certifies that he was personally present at the burial of her husband Wm. Wright - we further certify that she is reputed in the neighbourhood (neighborhood) where she resides to be of fair character & of indisputable truth & veracity & that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed before me this 18th February A.D. 1856.
Holston Almon
Hezekiah Almon
Jonathan M. Douglass

Wm. T. Davis, J.P.
And I do certify that the above affiants are credible persons

State of Georgia
Heard County

I Henry T. Noland Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County, do hereby certify that William T. Davis is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified that his commission bears date 4th January 1853 & will expire 4th January 1857 and that the above & foregoing signatures as written are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 20th day of February A.D. 1856.
Henry T. Noland, C.I.C.
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State of Georgia
Heard County

We John Baird & Timothy Pittman, Justices of the Inferior Court in & for the State & County aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry T. Noland who has assigned the forgoing certificate is the acting Clerk of the Inferior Court of Heard County and that his signature is entitled to credit. Given under our hands this 20th day of February A.D. 1856.

John Baird JIC
Timothy Pittman JIC

Chas. L. Matthews
Franklin, Georgia

Mary Wright
(illegible) William
July 28, 1848

Georgia Heard County   18th day of February A.D. 1856 P.L.

Please respond or transmit my certificate if granted to Charles L. Matthews who is my authorized agent to prosecute my claims & to recover & receive my deed from the Pension Office of the U,S.  N.B. his address is Franklin Heard County Ga. and oblige.
her X mark Mary Wright

Test
Timothy Pittman JIC
Uel M. Matthews
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Americus, Ga.

Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 15th and received the 19th instant, you are advised that in the claim of Mary, widow of William Wright, Rej. No. 11,900, it is alleged that the soldier entered the service about the year 1777 and served as a Private in the Virginia Militia until about 1781 or 1782.
He married in Wilkes County, Georgia, May 8, 1795, Mary ----, and died in June 1836.
She applied for a pension February 18, 1856 while a resident of Heard County, Georgia and 105 years old age. The claim was not allowed for lack of proof of soldier's service.
The Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to Dyonysius Wright described by you.
Very respectfully,

Acting Commissioner.
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1909 July 24 Hist. to Edna Wheeler Barnett

11.900
P. O. Mary Wright
Service: Widow of Wm Wright

Enlisted: REJECTED, 18___
Discharged: (Blank), 18___
Application filed: (Blank), 18___

Alleges: Claim filed too late to be on printed list of 1852 of rejections
Re-enlisted: (Blank)

Attorney: (Blank)
P.O. (Blank)
(Blank) Recognized,
(Blank) Cert. of Dis. Searched for (Blank)
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Americus, Ga.
July 15, 1909

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
I am tracing my ancestors, for the purpose of joining the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Will you please send me the war records of my great, great grandparents, Dyonysius and William Wright, who fought in the Revolutionary war. Both were of Georgia
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Dyonysius Wright was one of the soldiers to whom the headright was granted some time (sometime) between seventeen-hundred and seventy (1770), and seventeen-hundred and seventy-four (1774).
I wrote to the secretary of the War department, and received an answer this morning saying that the name was not found on the rolls, on file in that office, but that the collection of Revolutionary war records is far from complete.
He suggested that I
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write you, that it might be possible to obtain the information desired from you.
Thanking you in advance for your trouble,
I am,

Yours respectfully,
Mrs. Edna Wheeler Barnett
114 Jackson St,
Americus, Ga.

STAMPED
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
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JUL 19 1909
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Franklin Ga    widow 105 years old
Feb 22            Official Bus

(on side) Mary Wright
William - Ga - Wright

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Ms. Mary Wright
Widow of William
Georgia
C.L. Matthews, March 6/56 (1856)

11900
July 29, 1848
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Chas L. Mathews (Matthews)
March 6 56 (1856)
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Pension Office
March 6, 1856

Sir
The (illegible) of Mary Wright, widow of William, forwarded to this office by you has been filed under the Act of July 29, 1848 - but as neither the alleged service nor the date of this marriage is established or (illegible) of the (illegible). They are herewith (illegible) for Ms. Wright's information and unless they are complete (illegible) in any particular, the claim will not be allowed. There is no evidence of the militia service of (illegible) in this office, and do not know that there is any in existence. 

Charles L. Matthews
Franklin
(illegible) to Geo.