Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,920, John Vaughn, Continental (Md. Or Va.)
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Md.) 
Va.

Vaughn, John
Nancy
-
NUMBER
R. 10.920

CONTENTS
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[Left column]

Benjamin Vaughn was born November the 4 day 1804
Nancy Vaughn was born January the 19 day  1807

Mahaly Vaughn was born the 10 day March in the year of our Lord 1809

John Vaughn was born in the year of our Lord September the 28 day 1817

Samuel Vaughn was born February the 11 day in the year of our Lord 1814

[Right column]

Martha Vaughn was born in the year of our Lord July the 2 day 1815

George W Vaughn was born in the year of our Lord June the 15th day 1820

[the above is the record]

James Jones was born in the year of  our Lord January the 27 day 1822

No more at present
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[Left column]

Mary Jane Vaughn was born in the year of our Lord May [illegible] 1818

John Franklin Vaughn was born April the 4th day 1841

Mary [or May] Uldah Jane Vaughn was born on the 14 day 1842 [no month given]

Tennessee Vaughn was born Dec the 27 1843.

[Right column]

James Vaughn was born October the 15 day 1795

Beverly Vaughn was born January the 4 day 1798

Baby Vaughn was born and died the 12 day 1800

Rebekah Grewer was born the 24 day 1802
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State of Tennessee
County of Hawkins ⎬

On this 3d day of February AD one thousand eight
hundred and fifty eight personally appeared before
me Wm Hutchinson a justice of the peace within
and for the County and State aforesaid Nancy Vaughn a
resident of Hawkins County in the State of Tennessee aged
about 81 eighty one years who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
provision made by the act of Congress passed July the 29th 1848
and that she is the widow of John Vaughn who was a
Gunner in or about the year 1780 and was a Sergeant in or
about the year 1781 in the company commanded by Capt
William Brown of Col. Charles Harrison's regiment of
Artillery that he was an enlisted soldier in the aforesaid
Maryland artillery and served three years till he was honestly discharged from the aforesaid army of the revolutionary war of the
United States and that his discharge is lost or mislaid it
cannot now be had and in order to establish the service and
length of service she refers to the department of the aforesaid company of artillery and State line and she further certifies that he was married to John Vaughn on about the 16th day of October AD
1794 by one Passon Hays a Clergiman in Halifax County
in the State of Virginia and that her and her said husband
moved from the State of Virginia about the year 1800
and settled in the County and State aforesaid and in the settlement
where I have our since and now reside and that her husband
died at home in the County of Hawkin and State of Tennessee on
the 14th day of July AD 1842 and that she has remained a
widow ever since that time and is now a widow and that
her name before his said marriage was Nancy Calicott
that her nor her said husband never kept any record or other
writing of the dates of the said marriage nor does she know of
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any one or believe that any person is now alive, who was
at the marriage as aforesaid nor does she believe that the [illegible]
on record unless it should appear of record in the County of
Halifax in the State of Virginia when they are married as aforesaid
and she further states that her and her said husband lived to-
gether from the date of this marriage aforesaid to the date of
his death aforesaid and raised eleven children the eldest
James was born Oct 15 day 1795 Beverley on January 1798
Polly was born April 12th day 1800 Rebeckah G. was born
June the 28 day 1802 Benjamin was born November 4th
1804 Nancy was born January 19th day 1802 Mahaly was
Born the 10th March 1807 John was born September 24th
1811 Samuel Vaughn was born February the 11th 1814, and
was born July 24th 1815 George W Vaughn was born June 15th 1820
and that she has never has heretofore applied for or received
a Pension, she alleges it has been through neglect and [illegible]
of and attaining to [illegible] to his own and that she cannot
from affliction old age and loss of memory more safely or
correctly state the first from her recollection but for the
further proof of her said marriage cohabitation and reputa-
tion she refers to the proof hereto annexed and that she makes
this declaration in order to obtain his claim to pension under
the act approved July the 29th 1843 and she further declares
that she is not able in consequence of bodily affliction and
old age to attend the court, therefore.

Know all men by these presents that I Nancy Vaughn
aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint William W
Strickland of Sneedsville Tennessee my true and lawful
attorney for me and in my name to demand and in
my said claim and to do all and every legal act that
would amount to wit I personally present at the
doing thereof and that I will not make this pointure
after as witness my hand and seal the day and year all
Thomas & Davis
Gilbert Davis
Nancy Vaughn x [her mark]
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We Thomas Davis and Lelburn Davis
residence of Hawkins County in the State of
Tennessee upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration
and annexed power of attorney was signed and acknowledged by
Nancy Vaughn by making his mark to her name and we
further declare that we knew John Vaughn in his life time
and know that he was always understood and believed
to be a soldier of the revolutionary war by his neighbors
generally was since our first acquaintance with him and
we know that the said John Vaughn died on or about the
14th day of July 1842 and that he died in this settlement but
that we know nothing of the marriage of the said [illegible]
but know that the said John Vaughn and the said Nancy
this declarant lived about 35 years from our first
acquaintance with them to the date of his death aforesaid
in the county of Hawkins and State of Tennessee and in the
neighborhood where he died as man and wife they [illegible]
and behaved ever so reputation and respected by their neighbors 
generally up to the date of the said Johns death aforesaid
and we further state that the said John Vaughn and the
said Nancy his wife had raised several children The most
of which we are personally acquainted with and that
from the appearance they are about the age she the
said Nancy states in her declaration and we further state
that the first as well as the last was always acknowledged
by them both to be legitimate and that at the death
of the said John that his heirs together with Nancy his
widow all shared in his estate and that we have been personally
acquainted with the claimant ever since the death of her said
husband John Vaughn aforesaid and that she hasn't again
married but has remained and to now the reputed and respected
widow of John Vaughn aforesaid and that we believe [illegible]
are acquainted from her appearance and statement and
[illegible] facts and circumstances that she is the identical
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[handwritten]
person she therein represents her self to be and that she not able in consequence of old age and bodily infirmity to
attend the court and that we have no interest in this [illegible] but believe that she is entitled to the same as
set our hand and seal this 3d day of February AD 1858
his
Thomas X Davis 
mark

his
Lelburn X Davis
mark

State of Tennessee County of Hankins
Be it known that the foregoing declaration and annexed power of attorney and affidavit was sworn to signed and acknowledged before me Wm Hutchinson a justice of the peace on the day and year it bears date and I certify that I know the affiance to be credible
person and residence of my county and that they are men
of truth and verasity and that they are of sufficient age
to know the facts about which they state 
and that I further certify it I have know the claimant about 20 year previous to the death of her husband
and have known her ever since and she is a widow and that the affidavit foregoing is true and it is generally believed that she is the identical person She therein represents her self to be, and that she the applicant,
from bodily infirmity and old age attend the Court I have no interest in this claim
witness my hand and official seal this 3d day of February AD 1858
[signed] Wm Hutchison JP

State of Tennessee
Hawkins County

I James H Vance Clerk of the County Court of Hawkins County in the state aforesaid by my deputy Willie B. Mitchell do hereby certify that William Hutchison whose is subscribed to the above certificate is an acting Justice of the
peace for said County and State duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature thereto is genuine
Given under my hand and seal of office
at office in Rogersville the 3rd day of March
AD 1858
[signed] J. H. Vance Clerk
[signed] By W. Mitchell Deputy
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[handwritten]

State of Tennessee
County of Hancock ⎬ ss
Be it remembered that on this 28 day of May AD 1858
personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in
and for the County aforesaid Benjiman Vaughn aged
about 54- years after being by me duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath depose and say that he will be
fifty four years of age on the 4th day of November 
AD 1858 to the best of his knowledge information and
belief, and that he further certifise that the enclosed record
of my father John & Nancy Vaughn is the record which
was found among my fathers old papers &c and it has ever
since remained in my possession and as to the correctness, of which I certify that can recollect the Birth of Samuel
Martha & George W. Vaughn which part of the record I
certify from my recollection, and from circumstances is
correct and that I certify that James, Polly, Benel, Rebecky
G. Vaughn, are all four Elder than me and that the last
account I had of James he was in the State of Texas
and that the last account I had of Beverly he was in the
State of Arkansas and that Polly lives in hawkins 
County in the State of Tennessee Rebeckey lives in the
State of Mo
the last account, and that Nancy
Cahaley, & John are all three younger than me but I cannot
Recollect the dates of ther Births and that Nancy & John
lives in this County and that Mahaley is dead and that
Samuel resides in this county and that the last account of George
he lived near Nashville Tennessee and that Martha lives in Knox County in the State of Tennessee and that
my father John Vaughn Died on the 14 day of July
D 1849 and that at his death he left a will in which I
certify he willed to me John & Samuel Vaughn the tract of land whereon I now live and whereon Samuel now   that they paid John after the death of ther said father $100
for his part of said Tract of land, and that his other lands
and Tenement was divided amongst the other heirs and
that I further certify that I know of know other record of
the dates and births of said heirs or any other dates or record of
the marriage if any such record exis either private or public
he does not know any thing of them, and I further certify that
after the act of 1832 I heard my father frequently speak of his
claims that he said that he would not trouble himself about it that he did not kneed it, and that on several occasions I have heard him in conversation with one
Samuel Dobson who is no more, and who was a very drinking caractr, and who applide for pension
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[handwritten]

that if he ^Doloson^ could obtain his pension and could get what was due to him John Vaughn that he ^Doloson^ would 
have money a nuff to pay for his drinking. and that
Doloson never received a pension as I know of
In witness I do hereunto set my hand and seal the day and
year] aforesaid
[signed Benjamin Vaughn [hand drawn circle "seal" in center]
Attest
1 Dari Hickmore
2 W N Berry


State of Tennessee
County of Hancock ⎬ ss I James Ford
Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit was sworn to signed and acknowledged
by Benjiman Vaughn and witnessed in my presence
and that I further certify that the said affiant is a man
of truth and varasity and that I have known him
for many years and know that he is the Identical 
person he therein represents himself to be and
that his statements are true and the witnesses foregoing are each credible persons and that I have no
interest in this claim in any manner whatever
witness my hand and official seal this 28 day of May A D 1858
[signed] James Ford JP [hand drawn circle "seal" in center]
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[handwritten]

State of Tennessee
County of Hancock SS. 
on this 28 day of May A D 1858 personally appeared before me the undersigned
a Justice of the Peace George Anderson aged about 78 - years who are well known to me to be a man of truth and varasity and who is a credible witness and who being by me duly sworn depose and say that he is well acquainted with Mrs Nancy Vaughn the reputed mother of Benjiman Vaughn
the foregoing affiant, and who I understand has applied for a pension that he has known here for about 58 years past that he was acquainted with John Vaughn her late husband having known him for about 42 years prior to his death that they the said John and Nancy lived togeth as husband and wife all the while he knew them as aforesaid and were reputed so to be, that deponent never heard the fact of there marriage disputed or questioned that the said John Vaughn died on or about 14 day of July AD 1842 and that he further states that the said John and Nancy lived together all the while he knew them from about the year
1800 to the day of his death first at the place where the above affiant and Samuel Vaughn now lives till about 10 years before his death at which time he moved a cross clinch mountain and settled in the valley called then and now poor valley near where the reputed widow now lives in Hankins County  that they raised several children about Eleven
which was all acknowledged by them both to be
legitimate that James was always said to be the
Eldest and that from his acqaintance and from
his the said James appearance he must know
be about 63 years of age and that the several
children went by his name and at the death of the said John Vaughn he has under stood and believes
that his children heired part in his estate and that
during my acquaintance with the said John Vaughn
I always understood that he was a soldier in the
revolutionary war and that I never heard the fact
questioned but that it was to the best of my knowledge and belief, Generally understood and believed by his neighbors that he was a soldier as aforesaid
and that the said James moved to the west some years ago and that Gerge W Vaughn the younger
moved from here to ward middle Tennessee
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[handwritten]

and that the following children lines in this
vicinity to wit Benjiman, John, Samuel, 
Polly, Nancy Martha in Knox County Tennessee
and the others have moved from her I dont
know are they are, and that since the said
John Vaughn, death the said Nancy has never
again married but has remained and is now
the reputed widow aforesaid and that I am no
ways related to the said Nancy the claimant
and that I have no interest in her claim
whatever witness my hand and seal
his
George X Anderson
mark

Attest
1 M Parmer

the affiant is a resident of my county and that he
sworn to signed witnessed and acknowledged
this 28 day of May 1885 
[signed] James Ford JP

State of Tennessee
Hancock County   I Richard Mitchell Clerk of the County Court for said County do hereby certify that James Ford is an acting Justice of the peace for said County and state legally commissioned and sworn into office and that his signature to the above is genuine
Given under my hand at office in
Sneedville this 5th day of June 1858
[signed] Richard Mitchell Clerk
[partial circle to the left]
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[Written in pencil]
Important
Index no duplicate
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[handwritten]

Nancy Vaughn
Wid of
John
Tenn

10928

Sct: Wm M Strickland May. 11/58
"       "     "          "       July . 13/58
Sect: Int. Aug. 4th 1858. Appeal Wm. M Strickland Aug: 17/58
Same Oct 8, 1858

Act 29t July [illegible]81
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10920
P.O.
Nancy Vaughn
Service:
Enlisted:                   , 18   .
Discharged:              , 18   .

Application filed:       ,18   .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.

Recognized
Contract
Cert of Dis.
Searched for        ,18.

File Stamped REJECTED
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Sneedsville
June 7 1858

Sir

In respect to yours of May 11th
I understand you to intimate that
the name of the Sergeant John Vaughn
appears on the role of Capt Wm Brown Co
an Col Chas Harrison's company if so
in connexion with that and am obediant
to the requirements of the 11 May will enclose
evidence to clearly identify her marriage 
and identify with the service claimed
which is sufficient [illegible] evidence
of service and marriage to show the
right of the claimant and with the
evidence in the archives of the
department and with the evidence
herewith enclosed beyond a reasonable
doubt the claim is clearly entitled
to her claim and I plead that her
claim should issue.

I am your most obedient
Servant
Wm. M. Strickland
Sneedville, Tennessee

Hon C [illegible]
pensioners Washington DC
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Sneedville April 14th 1838

Sir, enclosed

Pleas find the declaration
and certificates of Nancy Vaughn widow
of John Vaughn [illegible] in the Revolutionary war
you will please to consider the claim of the
old lady as soon as the oppertunity will admit
of it, the claim has been held up for a certificate
from the Clerk of the County Court of Halifax
County State of Virginia where they were married
we could not find a certificate of marriage
as you will see by the enclosed certificate but
we are satisfied that we have sufficient
proof of Cohabitation and general reputation to
sufise in this case, if the Roles of the
Va State line and company mentioned will
afford record proof of service so we depend on
the Records of the department &c for the proof
of service so we hope to hear from you Soon.
I am Sir your
humble servant
Wm. M Strickland

Non Geo Whiting
Commissioner of
pensions Washington DC
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Sneedville
Sept 28th 1858
Sir
Having just received yours
of the 17th of August 1858, in the case of
Nancy Vaughn widow of John a
Revolutionary soldier, Claim to pension
under act of July 29, 1848,
and will now inform you that the
Claimant Nancy Vaughn deceased
a few days ago and we wish to
know if we will not have a write
to complete the adjustment of her
claim in the name of her heirs
owing to former decisions we
have the [illegible] and we claim that
we out to have the right yet
so I hope to hear from you
soon I remain yours truly
Wm. M. Strickland
Sneedville Tennessee

Hon Geo C Whiting Esq
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City D. C.
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Department of the Interior
August 12th 1858
Sir
I have examined the claim of Nancy
Vaughn widow of John Vaughn, for a pension
under Act July 29th 1848, upon which an
appeal has been taken from your decision.

I am of the opinion that the evidence
is insufficient to show in a satisfactory
manner, that the widow's husband was
the identical John Vaughn who served as a
gunner and Sergeant under Col Charles
Harrison and Capt William Brown, in the
Virginia Continental line. Your decision
is therefore affirmed, and the papers which
accompanied your report are herewith returned
to your office
I am, very respectfully,
Your Obt Servt
J. Monson
Secretary

Hon. G. C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Virginia
County of Halifax SS.

I William S Holt Clerk of the County
Court in the County and State
aforesaid do hereby
Certify that I have carefully examined the records
and files of my office for the marriage of John
Vaughan and Nancy Callicott and find no record
of said Marriage. I further certify that the
records of marriages in my office are not so complete
as to raise a presumption against the alledged
Marriage
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed the seal of the said
County and subscribed my name this
30th day of March 1838
Wm A. Holt Clk
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[handwritten]

State of Tennessee
County of Hawkins ss
on this 2d day of June AD 1858
personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice
of the peace in and for said County John R Charles -- aged about 42 years who are well known to me to be a man of truth and varasity and who is a credible witness and who being by me duly sworn depose and say that he is well acquainted with Mrs. Nancy Vaughn the foregoing applicant for a pension that
he has known her for about 36 years past that he was acquainted with John Vaughn her late husband having known him for about 20 years previous to his death that they the said John and Nancy, lived together as husband and wife, and was reputed so to be that deponent
never heard the fact of the marriage disputed
or questioned that the said John Vaughn died on or about the 14 day of July 1842, and that he further states that the said
John and Nancy lived to gether all the time during the 20 years I knew them as man and wife on clinch river then Hawkins County now Hancock County in the State of
Tennessee and that they raised several children that
was acknowledged to be legitimate that James
was along said to be the Eldest and from my acquaintance with him he must from his appearance now be the rise of 60 yeas of age and that about 10 years before his death aforesaid they moved across the Clinch mountain in a vally called then and now
poor vally Hankins County, Tennessee and died in about one mile of where his widow Nancy
now lives and that there severall children all
went by his name and at his death they all heired a part in his estate, and that the said John Vaughn
was by the neighbor generally believed to have
been a soldier of the Revolutionary soldier
and especially at the time of his death it was said that a nother one of the old revolutionary soldiers was dead, and frequently spoke of there being so few of them living, and I further certify that James Vaughn aforesaid moved from here to Texas and that there yougest son moved near Nashville
Tennessee and that he was of them lines in this county
that I am personally aquainted with to wit-
Benjamin, John Samuel Polly Nancy and Martha in
Knox County Tennessee the others have moved off I dont where 
and that the said Nancy has been since the day of said
Johns death and still is reputed to be his widow which
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deponent believes to be the fact, that she has never married
since her said husband's death, and still is his widow
and that he the deponent so resides in the County aforesaid
and that I believe she is the identical person she
Represents herself to be and that I am in no
way related to the applicant and that I have no
interest in the prosecution of her claim or otherwise
whatever

John Templeton
James Francisco
John R Charles

Sworn to Subscribed and witnessed before me, this 2
day of June AD 1858
Wm Hutchison
for Hawkin County

State of Tennessee
Hawkins County ⎬ss   I, James H Vance Clerk of
the County Court of said County do certify
that William Hutchison Esq before whom the
foregoing declaration and affidavits were
made is now and was at the date
thereof an acting Justice of the Peace
in and for said County legally commissioned
and qualified and that his
several signatures foregoing are genuine
Given under my hand and
official Seal at office in
Rogersville the 4th day of
June 1858
J H Vance Clerk
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[handwritten]

State of Tennessee
County of Hawkins, SS. 
on this 2d day of June AD
one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight personally appeeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace
in and for said County Mrs Nancy Vaughn who is to me known to be the person mentioned as claimant in a previous declaration in the pension office at Washington City, and who being by me first duly sworn doth on her oath state that there is no public or private
record of her marriage to the best of her knowledge information and belief she further state that she and way with her husband John Vaughn from Sharlott County Virginia and went into Halifax County Virginia and
was married by one parson Hayse a Clergiman and that she was married at the hous of the said parson Hayse; and that she knows of no one that is now living who was present at his marriage aforesaid she further states that she
cannot from her recollection give the precise day and year of her said ^marriage^ 
she states to the best of her recollection that it
was on or about the [blank] day of October 1794 there is one thing she states she do know that it was something over one year after the said marriage that James
Vaughn her eldest son was born on the 15 day of october 1795 and that since her previous declaration we have found in the possession of her son Bengimon Vaughn of Hancock County Tennessee a part of an old day book containing the records of my childrens ages to wit the day and year of each birth which she certified is true to the best of her recollection and which is here with enclosed, and that she was born and raised in Prince edward and Sharlott County in Virginia and to
the best of her information her said husband John Vaughn was born in the State of Virginia at least the first time she ever knew him was in Sharlott County in Virginia and at that time she states that she was about Eleven years of age she further states that she dos not know the name of the place where her
said husband entered the service at   that her first acquaintance she ever had with her said husband was some years after the service aforesaid, and that she recollects
of hearing her said husband speaking of several places that he was at during his service som of which she recollects as follows to wit the High Hill of the
the Santee & Fort Schuyler and served other places which I canot at this time call to mind but at what perticle
place he entered service at I cannot now recollect
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[handwritten]

which he said that he entered at and that she further states
that after her marriage aforesaid she and her said husband
resided in the State of Virginia Some six years and that
they moved from the State of Virginia about the year
1800 and came to Hawkins County Tennessee that
they settled on or near Clinch river som 5 or 6 miles from
here where I now live then Hawkins County
now Hancock County Tennessee where were sons Benjimon & Samuel Vaughn now lives and that we lived there
all the while until about 10 years before his death which was in the year 1832 at which time her said husband bought land on this side of Clinch mountain and we moved one here in this vally called then and now poor Valley in Hawkins County Tennessee when
he lived till the day of his death which took place on the 14th day of July 1842 and in about one mile of where I now live with her daughter Polly She further states that if her her husband ever made any application for a pension she never knew any thing
of it but that she dos not believe that he ever did from the fact that she has heard him of times speak of his service and of his claim and say that he would not Trobble him self about his claim that he had a nuff to do him his lifetime with thout it and that at his death aforesaid he left a will in which
he divided his lands and Tennements among his children
generally that he left the place we settled when we first  came to Tennessee to his sons to wit Benjiman, Samuel, and John Vaughn and that he left the place where he
died to his youngest son George W. Vaughn with
Provision in it that he was to take care of me my lifetime and he not with standing has sold the land and moved from here the last account I had of him he lived near Nashville Tennessee and that he has been
gon from here about 14 years and that since the death of her said husband she states that she has remained unmarried and is now the widow of John Vaughn
aforesaid, and that ever since the first understood that
there was a pension allowed to the widow of the Revolution
, Soldiers which was serval years ago she certified that at the firs oppertunity which was some 6 or 7 years
ago I applide to one William, C. Baldwin of Hancock County, Tennessee to file my declaration and to prosicute my said claim and he said he would at some other time that he had not time then and went off and
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[handwritten]

and never come back, and again about 3 or 4 years ago one Hicks of Abington VA sent ^word^ me time and again that
he would come and fix my papers and that he never come and again about two years ago one Hiram Rodgers who then lived in Hancock County aforesaid came to see me and said he would fix out my declaration or me and prosicute my claim and that he went off and was to be back at a certain time but never came, and that about one year ago
one granville Rodgers sent me word that he would come and fix out my application but never came
all of the foregoing named with several others not named has promised me to fix and some promis to have my claim fixed out and none do any thing and I have been so much confind from old age and bodily infirmity that I could not go to have my claim fixed out 
and authenticated, and that she has been thus disappointed and held in suspence from time to time until the time of filing her declaration by her attorney Wm. M. Strickland of Sneedville Tennessee which is on
file in the pension office at Washington city which is the first declaration that I ever made in my claim and this next additional in order to obtain a pension certificate for the amount which may be due me under act
approved July 29th 1848 which certificate I wish made payable at Knoxville Tennessee aging as it is most convenient, and that she further certifies that she cannot from bodily infirmity old age and loss of memory
from he recollection more correctly or safely
state the facts and she refers to the evidences in the department on file and the evidence herewith enclosed
in support of my claim aforesaid and that I am
not able in consequence of bodily infirmity and old age to attend the Court
her
Nancy X Vaughn
Mark

1. [signed] Wiley M Davis
2 [signed] Uriah B. Still

State of Tennessee
County of Hankins 
on this 2 day of June AD.
1858 personally appeared before in the undersigned
a Justice of the peace in and for said County
Wiley M Davis - and Uriah B Still
who are
to me well known and who are each credible
persons and who being by me duly sworn depose and say that they are each well acquainted with
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[handwritten]

Mrs Nancy Vaughn the above applicant for a
pension that they have known her for 22 years
part that they were acquainted with John Vaughn her late husband having known him for 6 years  --  previous to his death that they the said John Vaughn and the said Nancy this declarant that they lived together as husband and wife and so Reputed to be that deponents, never heard the fact of three marriage disputed or questioned that the said John Naught died on or about the 14th day of July 1842 and the said Nancy Vaughn has remained since that day a widow and is still the reputed widow of John Vaughn aforesaid
which the deponent believes to be the fast
and that her said husband is  & was the Identical man mentioned as a soldier in the foregoing affidavit and that he was and  is generally believed to be by his
neighbors a soldier of the revolutionary war
and that they we present and saw the affiant sign her name to the foregoing affidavit by making his mark to her name and further that the deponents do reside in the County aforesaid, and that we are neither any way related to the claimant and
that we have no interest in the claim aforesaid
in no manner whatever witness our hands
and seals
[signed] Wiley M Davis [hand drawn "seal"]
[signed] Uriah B. Still [hand drawn "seal"]

the foregoing affidavits was sworn to signed and acknowledged before me on the day and year it bears date and I certify that they are credible persons and that I am the Justice of the Peace before whom the previous declaration was made and I acknowledge and ratify my certificate thereto annexed [struck through "witness"] and that I have no interest
in the claim in no manner whatever
and that I further certify
that the affiant is sufficient aged to know the
facts about which they state witness my hand and official seal
[signed] Wm Hutchison
for Hawkins County
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name Vaughn, John
Grade Private
Line Crane's Continental Artillery
(Massachusetts)

Warrant Number 5206
Acerage 100
Issued Jan. 26, 1790
to John May_____

* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The