Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2425, John Cunningham, S.C.
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(3-1776) 
SERVICE NUMBER
SC Cunningham, John R 2425
Craig Ann
Former widow
CONTENTS
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March 11. 1845
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of third section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July, 1836 and an act to amend the act of July Eighteen hundred and thirty six and eighteen hundred and thirty eight lowing pensions to certain widows

State of Tennessee
Carroll County
On this 23rd day of January eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Samuel Killough & justice of the peace in and for said County of Carroll and State after (illegible) Ann Craig  of the State  Tennessee and the County of Carroll
aged aged eighty years on the 30th day of June one who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits
of the provision of the act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836 of tenets of flesh and 1838
approved August the 23rd 1842 That she was the widow of John Cunningham who was a Captain in the  revolutionary war, in the militia of the State of South Carolina
He entered the service on an early part of the war for the believes he was a militia open prior to the time of the war being carried into the State of South Carolina and left the service in December in seventeen eighty two she believes that John Cunningham Served
in the revolutionary war three years or more and under Col Bratton mostly and part of his time Col. True and Col Watson and was in the battle at Kings Mountain the reason why she so well recollects that Battle she was residing and living in hearing and did hear the sound of the drums and fire arms and and two of her brothers were in the same battle in Capt
Bulls company. She then resided in the State of North Carolina in County Joining the State of South  Carolina and York District
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York John Cunningham then resided because she was at that time personally acquainted with him and had visited his fathers house in York District in the foresaid State of South Carolina he being a family connection and particular acquaintances she believes that he was in two battles in this summer of seventeen hundred and eighty two in the lower part of South Carolina it being the destined place but the precise places she does not now recollect. But recollects that the two battles or skirmishes took place after she was married to the aforesaid John Cunningham who was a captain in the Militia of the aforesaid State of South Carolina. The reason why she so well remembers that the service terminated in September 1782 is, That she then was his wife and
that she had a dangerous spelt of sickness and that her husband John Cunningham was sent for by his father and before she recovered, it was some time

That she further declares that she was married to John Cunningham who was a captain on the 28th day of February Seventeen hundred and eighty two and that husband John Cunningham Capt in the Revolutionary War and that he died on the 6th day of March seventeen hundred and eighty three and she was afterwards married to William Patterson who died the 17th day of August, 1794, and that she afterwards married to James Holmes who died in December 1809 and she afterwards 
married to James Craig on the 17th day of November 1814 who died on the 7th day of September 1828. And all the foregoing named husbands were in the battle of Kings Mountain in the State of South Carolina and district of York and that she has remained a widow ever since the 7th day of September eighteen hundred and twenty eight and is now a widow as will more fully appear
by reference to the proof hereunto annexed
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year before written
[signed] Ann X Craig her mark
Witnesses
Samuel Killough J.P.
John Holmes
John Woods

State of Tennessee
Carroll County 
Personally appeared before me Samuel Killough Justice of the peace in and for said County  Ann Craig and made oath in due form of law that she has no record evidence of her marriage with John Cunningham Capt or other papers that prove his services therefore exhibit the leaf of her old family Bible that contains the age of John Cunningham her eldest Son and only son of Captain John Cunningham her first husband sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written
[signed] Ann X Craig her mark
Witnesses
Samuel Killough J.P.
John Holmes
John Wood

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I Samuel Killough a justice of the peace do hereby certify the above named Ann Craig was duly sworn according to law and that she did subscribe with her own hand and acknowledge the same to be her act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned Given under my hand and seal the day and year above Written
Samuel Killough
Justice of the peace for Carroll County Tenn

The above was interlined before signed
Saml Killough J.P.
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County  SS
Personally appeared before me Samuel Killough a Justice of the peace in and for said County
John Holmes aged about sixty six years John Woods aged sixty seven years and James Thompson aged seventy four years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on their oath say that
they are well acquainted with Ann Craig the aforementioned deponent and claimant and subscribed to the foregoing declaration in the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee and that she is a woman of high respectability and undoubted veracity and all credit is due to her statements and previous to that time the above named John Holmes, deposes that he has been
intimately acquainted for the term of thirty years making in all about forty six years and that when he first was acquainted with her she then resided in Lincoln County in the State of North Carolina joining York district in the State of South Carolina and they all depose and say that her character is irreproachable and that they believe all the facts set forth in the foregoing declaration to the true and that she is a [illegible due smudging] that she appears unimpaired.  Sworn to and subscribed this 23rd day of Jan A.D. 1843
[signed] John Holmes
John Woods
James  X Thompson his mark

I Samuel Killough a justice of the peace do certify to the above named deponent was duly sworn according to law and did subscribe to the same given under my hand and seal the day and year afsd written
Samuel Killough Esq.
J.P. For Carroll C
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Elizabeth Holmes  born May 3 1774
Jno Holmes January 30 1777
Jas Holmes May 5th 1779
Cynthia July 16th 1781
Phinehas November 2 1784
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John Cuningham was
born on the 20th of July
A Domini 1785 }
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Rachel Patterson was
born October 11th
1787
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Elizabeth Armstrong Patterson
was born July 10th
1789
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Arther Patterson was
born July 19th 17 [illegible]
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Josiah Patterson was
born May [illegible]
1793
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Illegible]
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State of Tennessee
Williamson County---
County Personally appeared Thomas Alexander before me Reuben White one of the acting Justices the peace in and for Williamson County and State of Tennessee who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he is personally acquainted with Ann Craig the subscriber to the forgoing declaration that she was married to John Cunningham who was a captain in the revolutionary War. The day of the month or the month the cannot recollect but the reason why he recollects Ann Craig now Ann Cunningham is that the said A. Craig is his sister And the reason why he recollects that the Marriage took place before the Revolutionary ended is that his Sister then Ann Cunningham now Ann Craig was taken dangerously sick that her husband John Cunningham was sent for for he was then in the Army of the United States that some time the ensuing spring he died and that his father moved his sister then Ann Cunningham who then resided in York District in South Carolina into Lincoln County in the State of North Carolina the distance of about twenty miles. That the Reason why he recollect that Cunningham was a captain that he went to one half mile of his house in York district in John Cunningham's lifetime, that he he has no record of his own age but was not old and enough to be compelled to bear arms himself that his father and two of his brother was in Army of the United States and he stayed at home that he always understood that Captain John Cunningham Served a great deal in the Army that he now believes from every circumstance and hearsay from persons that was with him that he served as much as three years or more that he was heard it asserted that John Cunningham was a Captain and as brave a man as ever burned Powder that his own age is about seventy four years
Sworn to and subscribed on this 10th day of August A.D. 1843. 
[signed] Thomas Alexander

Reuben White J P 
Justice of the Peas for Williamson County
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State of Tennessee
Williamson County ⎬SS
 I Reuben White one of the acting
justices of the peace in and for Williamson County and State of Tennessee
do certify that Thomas Alexander was duly sworn according to law
and did subscribe to the foregoing affidavit that Thomas Alexander
is a man of high credibility and undoubted veracity given under
my hand and official seal this 10th day of August A.D. 1843
Reuben White J P
Justice of the Peace for Williamson County and state Tennessee JP
The State of Tennessee SS
I Lemuel B M Councico Clerk of the County
Court of Williamson County in the State of Tennessee aforesaid
do hereby certify that Reuben White whose signature appear
to the foregoing certificate and affidavit is now and was
at the making thereof and acting Justice of the Peace in and
for the County of Williamson aforesaid duly commissioned and
Sworn and that full faith and credit are due his official acts
and that said signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed 
my name and affixed the seal of said
Court at office this 10 day of August 1843
[illegible]  B MCounico
State of Tennessee
Williamson County

I Gilbert Marshall Chairman, and presiding magistrate 
of the County Court of Williamson in the State of Tennessee do certify that
Lemuel B. McCouncico is the Clerk of the County Court
of Williamson County aforesaid that the above certicate is in due form
according to law, that the signature purporting to be his is
genuine Given under my hand and seal this 11th day
of August A.D. 1843
Gilbert Marshall Seal
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County
I Samuel Killough a Justice of the peace in and for said County do certify that I am well
acquainted with the aforenamed Ann Craig and that she is a woman of high reputability and also that I am well acquainted with the aforesaid deponents John Holmes, John Woods, and James Thompson who are men of high respectability and men of undoubted truth and veracity and all credit is due to their testimony

And I also certify that I have taken and enclosed a leaf of the old family Bible dated 1789 that on the first page is contained the age of John Cunningham the son of the aforesaid Widow Ann
Craig and John Cunningham and that on the second page is the ages of her third husband's  children previous to this marriage as I am informed by the family and I do believe the same to be true Given under my hand and Seal this 23rd day of January 1845
Samuel Killough 
J. P. For Carroll Cty Tenn

State of Tennessee
Carroll County 
I Samuel Killough a justice of the peace for said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ann Craig and that by reason of old age and other inabilities and bodily infirmities that she is unable to attend court. Given under my hand and seals the day and year above Written
Samuel Killough
J.P. For Carroll Cty Tenn
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County
I Young W. Allen Clerk of the County Court of Carroll County and State of Tennessee do certify that Samuel Killough was an Acting justice of the peace and was at the time of assigning the foregoing certificates and that the signature purporting to be his are genuine and that the forms
are legal agreeable to the laws of the State of Tennessee

Given under my hand and Seal In testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of
Office the 22nd day of August 1844
Y. W. Allen Clk
of Carroll County Court

State of Tennessee
Carroll County 
I John M. Hawkins Chairman and presiding magistrate of the County Court of Carroll County and State of Tennessee do certify that Young W. Allen is the County Court Clerk of Carroll County and was at the time of assigning the same and that the above certificate is in due form of law and the signature purporting to be his is genuine

Given under my hand and seal this day the 22nd of August 1844

John M. Hawkins seal
Chairman of the County
Court of Carroll County
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REJECTED
2425
P.O.
Ann Craig
former widow of John Cunningham
Service:
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:  
Re-enlisted:
Attorney: 
P. O.
Recognized.  Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for, 18
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No 4411
Ann Craig
Tenn
2425

Let to R. H. Hawthon
May 3 1845

Let to Ann Sept 24th  '45


No 6411
Ann Craig, formerly
widow  of J. Cunningham
Tenn

R. H. Hawthorn
May 3d 1845

Act July 1836
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Beble (Bible) filed in the Commissioners Room
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Beble (Bible) filed in the Commissioners Room
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July Term 1845
State of Tennessee
Carroll County
I Young W. Allen Clerk of the
County Court of Carroll and aforesaid
do hereby certify that that Ann Craig the subscriber to the declaration  was sworn according to law in open Court and that the foregoing Justices of the fire being present and did approved of did the facts and concur on due d examination did assign their own
names to their approval vig.  Martin Mosell Ezekiel Thomas Needham Green Isaac Sparks William Johnson William J. Wilson Joshua Butler John W. Hawkins John Loboth G W Holladay  Jacob Martin John H. Randle H. H. Ridley Robert A. Adison Abia Shankle Aaron Green and  William Sharp all being present and are now acting Justices of the peace in
and for said County and their signature purporting to be theirs are genuine Given under my hand seal of office this 26th day
July 1845
Y W Allen Clk
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County 

I John W. Hawkins Chairman and presiding
Magistrate of the County Court of
Carroll County do hereby certify that Young W.
Allen is the Clerk of the County Court of Carroll
County and that his attestation is in due form 
of law and that that the signature purporting to be his signature is genuine
Given under my hand and seal this 7th day 
of July 1845

John M. Hawkins seal
Chairman of the County
Court of Carroll County Tenn
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 and an Act to amend the act of July the 4th 1836 and 1838 allowing pensions to certain Widows
State of Tennessee
Carroll County  S.S.
the
On this 7th day of July eighteen hundred and forty five personally Ann Craig of of the County and State aforesaid before the County
Court of Carroll County and State aforesaid aged eighty two years on the 30th day of June last past after first being duly sworn in open Court according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of the act of Congress
passed July 4th 1836 and act to amend the act of July 10th 1836 and 1838. That she was the widow John Cunningham who was a Captain in the Revolutionary war in the Militia of the State of South Carolina the he entered the service in An early part of the War for the believes he was a militia captain previous to the time of the war being carried into the State of South Carolina . That she knows he left the service in seventeen hundred and eighty two some time in September She believes  that John Cunningham her former husband served in the
revolutionary war three years or more and under Colonel Bratton partly and part of his time under Col Love and Col Watson and was in the battle at Kings Mountain
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The reason why she so well recollect the battle at Kings Mountain she was residing in hearing and did hear the sound of the drums and firearms and her father and two of her brothers were in the same battle at Kings Mountain in Captain Barber Company she then resident in the State of North Carolina in Lincoln County
joining the State of North Carolina and also York District in which District John Cunningham then resided in the aforesaid State of South Carolina. The reason why she knows that
Captain John Cunningham her former husband then resided in said District that at that time she was personally acquainted with him and had visited his fathers house in York 
District in the aforesaid State of South Carolina he being family connection the last term of service took place after her marriage with the said John Cunningham which began or that he entered the service some time in March
April Seventeen hundred and eighty two left the service in September following the times and duty of the other service entering or leaving the services she cannot recollect the
particular time or having each term of service for then there no particular circumstance that would make a lasting impression on her mind provides to her marriage with said John
Cunningham she believes that he was in two battles or skirmish after their Marriage in the low part of South Carolina the the place of destination for Captain John Cunninghams company her former husband. The reason why the recollect the time of his Entering and coming the service she then his wife and the circumstance of his going and returning made  an
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impression on her mind the cause of his return in September following  was that she was attacked with a dangers spell of sickness
 and Captain John Cunningham's Father sent for him that it was some considerable time before she recovered peace was made and he never returned to the Army
Afterwards. That she further declares that she was married the aforesaid John Cunningham who was a captain in revolutionary War on the 18th day of February Seventeen hundred and eighty two and that he died on the 6th day
March Seventeen hundred and eighty three. That she was as afterwards married to William Patterson who died on the 17th day of August seventeen hundred and ninety four and that she afterwards was married to James Holmes who at in December 1867 that she afterward was married James Craig On the 17th day of November 1814 who died on the 7th day of September 1828 that she has remained a widow ever since that proved and is now
widow all the foregoing named husbands are in the Battle at Mountain in the State of South Carolina forth in which will more fully appear by reference the hereunto annexed sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year above Written
Ann Craig    her mark
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State of Tennessee  July Term 1845
Carroll County
Personally appeared Ann Craig the subscriber to the foregoing declaration who after first being
duly Sworn according to law and open Court touching the points and duly examined touching all the points it appears to the satisfaction of County Court of said County that all the facts set forth in her declaration are true and we hereby approved of and the Court Concurs in the opinion that she is a woman of excellent character and of good mind considering her advanced age and great bodily infirmities which saw her to be in feeble health but of sound mind and that all due faith and credit is due to her as a lady of high honor and veracity In testimony whereof we have set our hands and caused the County Seal of Carroll County to annexed by the clerk of said county court
[signed]
Martin Maxwell J.P.  John N. Hawkins J.P.
Ezekiel Thomas J.P.  John L Scott J.P.
Needham Green J.P. G. W. Holladay J.P.
Isaac Sparks J.P.  John H Randle J.P.
Wm Johnson J.P.  H. H. Ridley J.P.
Wm J. Wilson J.P.    Robt A Robison J.P.
Joshua Butler J P  Abie Shankle J.P.
Aaron Green J.P.
William Thorpe J.P.
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Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia So. Ca. July 25  "/55

Dr Madam

You will pardon my returning
the 81 and Franking the com
munications. Your Govelton
will be acknowledged in line of
the present for

Your communications [illegible]
Subjoined is a copy and certificate of the Revolution
an service as evidenced by the Record in this office of
Mr John Cunningham
Very Respectfully
For Comptroller Genl 
Haral


Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia So Ca. July 25" /45

Book O             }
Indent No  - 8 }

Issued the 22d April 1784   To Mr John Cunningham for
Eight pounds Sterling for pay as Carpenter Mate on
board the Gally Marquis of Brittagne in 1780 pr acct audt
Princl    £ 8 --  Inter. £ 0 : 11 : 2
__________
Book R          }
Indent 655.  }

Issued the 17 " June 1785   To Mr John Cunningham for
thirty five pounds Seven Shillings and three pence Sterlg,,
for duty done in the militia and for Waggon hire pr acct audt
No -18-                                 Princl  £ 35 : 7 : 3   --  Inter. £ 2 : 9 : 6

Acct 18. John Cunningham
                                his Acct of Militia duty performed after
[illegible]  in 1779 & 1780 as Private Horseman, also for duty in
Militia as Col Anderson return; and for Two Horses
Lost in service, and Waggon Service in 1779, the whole amtg
no/1/13. Thirty Seven Days as Horseman [illegible]                                £    37 --
Two Horses  £ 160: 13 : 10 &  £ 30 : 11 : 8          £ 191 : 11 : 6 }
Forty three days wagg" - hire @ -- £ 4 - -              172 -           }             £ 363 : 4 : 6

                       Duty pr Col Anderson, Regt in                                                 £    08
                                                                                                                          ___________________
One horse charg    £160.13.10                       Currency                              £   408 : 4 : 6
No Certificate                                                             Sterlg                              "   058 :  6 : 4
                                                                                                                                  £  055 :  7  : 3
I Certify the above to be a true copy from the Records in this office
For Comptroller Genl
Haral


[Math Computation]
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6411 March 11. 1845,
Ann Craig
July 4, 1836,

Paid
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of  Pensions
Washington D.C.
[illegible] Tenn

No 11411
Ann Craig formerly
widow of John Cunningham
Trn
July 4 1836
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[illegible] Tenn Feb 22d 1845
Dear Sir
I enclose the declaration of Mrs Ann Craig who married Capt John Cunningham during the revolutionary War I drew up the declaration of Mrs Craig and have delayed to forward it because she recollected the Testimony of Mr Morgan of Mississippi and have at last learned that he is dead, during Mr Morgan's life I heard him say that he served three months under Capt Cunningham the only campaign he ever served there and the reasons why the the delay has been made she by misfortune has been reduced to low circumstances and is unable to procure the evidence at her own pleasure for the want of means to travel, an investigation into the matter quickly is requested as she is yet alive but unable to labor. In the case of Mrs Judah Davis the has since died of that tetanus of which she was then unable to attend Court now please to say whether her heirs can 
be entitled to her pension or not if so write

I wrote down the Testimony of Mrs Ramsey who swore that she was at the wedding and saw the marriage. 
Your Obt Sert
Robert Hawthom
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[envelope]
Paid .10
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Columbia District
Chartered TennTue August 14 1845

[sideways]
Aug 25 1845
[illegible]
Mrs. Craig
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Chartered Tennessee August 7th 1845
Dear Sir
I have sent for and received the certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina which I hereby transmit to you without delay hoping that your attention to immediately turned to for Mrs. Craig is in great need and becoming almost helpless and without means of which to live even in common life without the attention of her friends her high feelings and yet in existence thought economical and prudent

Your Obedient sent
Robert Hawthom

J.L. Edwards Esqr
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[envelope]
40
J.L. Edwards- Commissioner of Pensions
Washing City Columbia District
Pension Office

[sideways]
Aug 21 1845
Ann Craig
May 4 1846
amended dec
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Chalk Level Tennessee July 9th 1845
in the case of Mrs Ann Craig
Sir I have proceeded to write out all other declarations in substances the same but some means the [illegible] as you instructed by stating the entering and leaving and terms of service I would have claimed for her under the Act of 1838 but the form laid down requires her to swear that she was not married to John Cunningham previous to the termination of the War which she would not - do fear she is an exemplary pious woman therefore I never mentioned it to her. I mean when I drew up the first declaration before a Justice of the peace, I have this day written a letter for her to the Comptroller General of South Carolina at Columbia which will be forwarded to you as early as it comes to hand you - Will please to remember that Mrs. Craigs property is nearly extracted and she is entirely unable to work for any part of a support and as soon as relief can be consistently afforded by the governtment it will relieve her indeed. The reason why the delay was so great I could not attend to her on the account of bad health in my family and she had no means of hiring any body to do it for and she awaited the return of my familys health for no other cause than that which I have Stated
Permit me to say that could it be papible to hear her plain narrative of the facts you would not doubt anything she would say I have enclosed the identical bible from which the leaf was taken when you examine it please send it back. As the old lady [?] it more than its value  Your Obdt Servt
Robert H. Hawthorn
J. L. Edwards, Esq
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I have also enclosed the first declaration
for the testimony proving her marriage is
attached to it therefore I send both together
P. H. Hawthorn

J L Edward Eqr