Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10118, George Houser, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N C
Houser, George
Magdalena
NUMBER
W. 10118
CONTENTS
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to pay 3rd April 1841.
W A Hauser [illegible]
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North Carolina
Magdalina Houser
wife of
George Houser dec
N.C.
who died on the [illegible]1818
Stokes Co (in the State of N.C. 
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the regt commanded
Col Williams in the No Ca mila line for 6 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Nov 1839 & sent to Hon A.H. Shepperd
Germantown, N.C.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839 $170.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 40 $10.00
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$180.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 30
Recorded by DM Curdy, Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 169
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Magdalena Hauser

Hon. AH Shepperd
HR
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
an Amendatory Declaration
of the Widdow Magdalena Houser for a pension taken by Virtue of an Order of the County Court aforesaid at her place of Residence in the County aforesaid on the 27th day of June
1838. The being first Sworn according to law before me Charles Bonner One of the Justices of the said Court. On her oath declares that her former declaration of the 28th of February 1838 which she swore to & Subscribed before me, is just & true, which
is hereunto affixed and she has no documentary proof to affix except that from the family records in a large Bible from which it appears that she was married to her late husband, George Houser Decd the 3d day of March 1777
Anna Maria their first born the 19th of March 1779
Catherine Eliza the 2nd born the 28 of January 1781
John Henry the 3d born the 18 of August 1782 Dead
Johna Soloma 4th born the 4th of May 1787 Dead
Dead born 5th born the 15th of Sept 1791 Dead
Samuel Thomas 6th borth the 30 of May 1794
Mary Magdalena Soloma -- 8th of April 1796

She the said Widow further declares that her husband, Geo Houser Decd was never on any pension Roll of any Agency or state, and that she relinquishes all claims for a Pension but the present Sworn & Subscribed the day
& year first above mentioned
before me
Magdalena Houser [X with her mark]

C Barner J.P.
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
I Reubin D Golding
Clerk of the County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for said County of Stokes do hereby certify that Charles Banner is a magistrate and one of Court aforesaid and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that from satisfactory evidence at June Term of said court 1838 the above named Magdelina Houser from bodily infirmity is unable to appear at Court therefore it was ordered by the Court, that the said Charles Banner do attend and make out her Declaration at her place of Residence.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 4th day of January AD 1839
Reuben D. Golding
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
On this 28th day of February 1838 personally
appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Magdalena Houser a resident of said County of Stokes in North Carolina aged Seventy eight
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 of the third Section made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, that she is the widdow of George Houser Decd who was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the army of the United States in Revolutionary war, and as such in the follow services.
first he volunteered as Lieutenant under Captain Henry Smith in the month of July or August 1776 to go against the Cherokee Indians
and started from Bethania Town (in the then Surry County, but from the division of said County is now in Stokes County NCarolina)
and marched, as she was informed, to the Mulberry fields in Wilkes County to meet with the South Carolina Army, but failed to meet, & was marched back to Surry after being gone two weeks or more, and in a few days
after his return home went again in said Expedition Rendezvoused at a place then called Myers old fields near Surry Court house from thence Marched against the Hostile Cherokees & in this last tour he said he served one
hundred & ten days as Lieutenant in said Capt Smiths Company under Col Joseph Williams who was chief commander of the Regiment, and the next Service he entered into after she was married to him was in 1778, a company
being organized in Surry County aforesaid as minute men to start at a moments notice, he was gone three weeks on a route after Tories towards the mountains in Capt Merediths Company & Colo. Williams commanded when they were attacked by a party of tories at Surry old court house & had to flee from them when a Capt John Crouse was wounded by the Tories, another time afterwards her husband was gone under Capt Smith Ten days & Routed a party of Tories on the South side the Yadkin & several other Short Tours he served ranging after Tories he said in all he had served as ranger during the
years he had lost at least three months on those ranging scouts after Tories the next service he was called on to guard the prisoners that was brought from Kings Mountain Battle at the old Moravian Town, he remained in this
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only one week or ten days; the next service he was ordered to go into was in guarding the Magazine from Salem to some place in Virginia
he went & put, in one horse to have in a waggon of his Uncle Geo Houser of which Joseph Houser was Teamster & hauled a load of ammunition, & her husband as one of the Guard as she was informed guarded to Henry County Va he was gone three weeks & returned a few days or a week before the British Army
March into Bethania where we lived, our horses & wagon aforesaid being hid in a thicket not far from Town where the British found it & Burned
the wagon & carried away all the Horses plundered & striped them of every thing they had allmost; at the same time this applicant had about Ten days before been delivered of a child named Catherine (with whom she
now lives, (married to Britain Clayton), the British took her husband prisoner & kept him under guard during the night & day they remained in Bethania & then released him on acct of her feeble state of health that time, as
was stated to him, it was supposed or conjectured that some Tory had informed
the British that her husband had been in the service of his Country as above stated, altho he had joined in the Moravian Church Shortly
previous to that time, which was in February 1781, all of his services as Lieut aforesaid being Eight months for which she claims a Pension
she further declares that she was married to said George Houser on the 3d day of March 1777 [written above - seventeen hundred and seventy seven] at the house of Matthew Brooks by the said Brooks who was an acting Justice of the peace then in Surry County NCarolina
and that her husband the aforesaid George Houser died on the 3d day of November 1818, and that she has remained a widow ever since
that period; as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed, further she declares that from bodily infirmity she is not able to travel to Court to make her declaration
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day & year first above written
before me
CBanner J.P.
Magdalena Houser [X her mark]
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State of North Carolina
Stokes County
Be it known that on the 28th day of February 1838 before
me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid
personally appeared Henry Shore a respectable Citizen of said County
and Brother of the aforesaid Magdalena Houser, and he being sworn
according to Law declares on his oath that he accompanied his sister
Magdalena House now, (the then Magdalena Shores,) in company with
George Houser & others, from Bethania Town on the 3d March 1777.
to the house of Matthew Brooks Esq and on that day the said
Matthew Brooks Solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the said
George House & Madalena in due form, as he said Brooks was a
Justice of the peace in Surry County N. Carolina which being done
they returned home to Bethania, he further declares that he remembers that
said George Houser acted as Lieutenant under Capt Henry Smith and
went to the Cherokee Nation in the year 1776 and afterwards served many
times in Ranging after Louis & Guarding the prisoners in Old Town
& Magazine as his Sister Magdalena has declared in the foregoing
declaration, and that she is now or widdow & has remained a widdow
ever since her husband the aforesaid George Houser deed which was in
the Autumn of the year 1818. his said sister being at present about Seventy
eight years of age & from bodily infirmity is not able to travel or go abroad
without injuring her health, Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year first
above mentioned before me
C Banner J.P.
Henry
his
Shore
Mark
Susanna Strupe Widdow of Samuel Strupe, being also sworn according to
law declares that she saw George Houser & Magdalena Stores Marry together
as man & wife by Matt Brooks a Justice of the peace for the
County of Surry N Carolina at his own house in said County in the Spring
of the year 1777. that said George Houser died in the fall of 1818
& his wife the aforesaid Magdalena has remained a Widdow ever
since his death. Sworn to and subscribed this 28th day of February
1838 before me
C Bonner JP
her
SusannaS Strupe
Mark
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes

Charles Banner a Justice of the peace in
and for the County aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing declaration
of Magdalena House was duly taken, sworn to & subscribed by her at
Britain Clayton her son in law & place of her residence in the County
aforesaid on the day therein mentioned that she is a credible person for Veracity &
truth; and I am of opinion she is Seventy eight years of age as she has stated
& very unable to travel by any means to Court, that I was well acquainted with
her husband George Houser Esq. Decd. who died in the Novem 1818. and his
Widdow the aforesaid Magdalena has remained a Widdow ever since his
death, and further I am of opinion that her statement of his services in
the Revolutionary war is correct, and I further certify that the within named
Henry Shore & Susanna Strup who has sworn to & subscribed their
Depositions as within, are credible persons for Veracity & truth &
Given under my hand this 28th day of February 1838
C Banner J.P.
.
State of North Carolina of
County of Stokes
I Reubin D Golding
Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for
Stokes County aforesaid certify that Charles Banner
is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine-
[illegible seal]
In Testamony whereof I have hereunto 
affixed my seal of office and subscribed
my name this 12th day of March 1838
Reuben D Golden Clk
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Mch. 26, 1903
Mrs Chas E. Shelton
Winston N.C.
no add information
Rev WIDOW, &c.
Fille No.
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19118
Magdalina Houser
Wid
George Houser
Privt Rev. War
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Act: July 4th
1836
index:- Vol. A Page 344.
Arrangement of 1870.}
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[illegible]
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3307
Magdalena Houser
Wid of George
NC
Act July 4 1836
Married 1777
died
1818
Allow 6 mp private
$20 per an NC
Militia Capt
HG Smith

Hon A. H. Sheppard
Germantown
N.C
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Geo Houser 
Magdalena
married 1777
died 1818
1776. Leut '14 Capt Hy Smith
  "               3.20  '         "
1778  min.   '21   "  Merideth
                     10   "   Smith
                    =5.05
Ranging at least 3 mos X
1780               .10   guarding prisoners
                        .21   "         ammunition
                      =6.06
Before a justice
X Wm H Shore [illegible] 1776
X Eph Barnes  [illegible] 4 m.
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Pension Office
[illegible Payettenth ] March 27 1841
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner for Pensions 
Sir
the [illegible land] papers require [illegible] approval before paymt came be made
[illegbile]
James Huske

Act of 1832. Andrew Berry 12 mos $21.33
" 1836 - Magdalena Houser 12 Mos  20 -
" 1832 [crossed out ? Eliza Jany [illegible] from 4th to 4 March 1840]
" - Charles Blackenberry - 12 - 22. 10.
" Thomas Kenneday " " - 4"
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Declaration
Amendatory of
Magdalena Houser
Widow of Geo Houser
Decd for a Pension
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A.
Oct. 19,'39

A.H. Shepperd
Germantown, NC
Agent
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
Magdalina Houser
Amendatory Declaration
On this 4th day of April 1839 before me Charles
Banner a Justice of peace of the Court of pleas and Quarter
Sessions in and for said County personally appeared Magdalena
Houser widow of George House Decd at her own place of Residence
in the County aforesaid being old & infirm who being first Sworn
according to law who on her Oath made the following amendatory
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed July 4, 1836, and the act explanatory of said act pass
March 3d 1837, that in addition to her former Declaration which
from information is filed as rejected in the Pension office
of the United States on the grounds that the services rendered
by her Decd Husband George Houser, in part that a tour of
duty in the service in ranging after Tories & guarding the
magazine from Salem to Virginia was not considered
as Military service, and furthermore that proof was required
of her husbands being an officer of the grade of an Ensign
& Lieutenant in the service to be proven by the Testamony
of some officer, She in reply to the first objections, states that
her husband was called on by his Superior Officers Col
Armstrong, Capt Henry Smith & Mag.r [sic] Winston of Surry
County N. Carolina to perform these service first four
months or more to the Cherokee Nation of Indians & next in 
ranging as minute men after Tories they being numerous
& troublesome in some Sections of this & the adjoining
Counties, and in the time of his acting as minute man
commanded a Company and marched over the blue Ridge
of Mountains to the lead mines on or near New River
and guarded the lead & those employed in transporting it
to Genl Rutherford's Army to Salisbury N. Carolina for
the use of the U. States Army & in a Skirmish with Tories
at Richmond Surry old Court house, and on another
occasion he was called on & march with about three
hundred armed men to guard the Magazine from
Salem to Virginia in the year 1781 in January & Feby these
Services has been proven by good witnesses heretofore
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and she has reason to believe that her neighbours
Geo Kregar, Elizabeth Spainhour, Susanna Strupe
& others has obtained pensions for the identical same
hours of duty as above stated performed her husband
George Houser Decd one item reference being had to
Elizabeth Spainhours papers filed by which she
obtain a pension, a discharge for one month
this was guarding the Magazine as above stated
As to prove her husband aforesaid serving as Ensign
or Lieutenant by an officer of the army it is out
of the Question, as there are none living as she
knows of, but there are some living private soldiers
who served with her husband and as she has failed
to prove by any officer that her husband served
as such she therefore claims for eight months
as stated in her former Declaration performed
by her husband aforesaid as a private in the army
and prays that the Pension Department will Rev
consider her claim. Sworn to and Subscribed
the day and year first above mentioned
before me           Magdalena Houser X her mark
S Banner J.P.
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State of North Carolina
Stokes County
Be it known that on this 4th day of April
1839 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace
in and for said County personally appeared John
Venables & George Kregar, both respectable citizens of 
the County aforesaid & believed to be men of veracity &
truth in the neighborhood where they reside. and they
being duly Sworn according Law Deposeth & saith
(they both being pensioners of the United States)
first John Venables saith that he served a Tour of
duty with George Houser Decd who was the husband of
Magdalena Houser who sworn to & subscribed the
foregoing declaration in my presence, which service was
the said Houser acted in the capacity of Ensign or Leut
he does not recollect which as minute men on several
calls sometimes two & three weeks at a time ranging to
suppress the Tories in Surry Rowan & Wilks Counties
N. Carolina, and one expedition after lead over the mountains
to the lead mines & back to Richmond Surry old Court house 
where said Geo. Houser parted with us & went on to guard
the lead with part of the Company to Genl Rutherford army
at Salisbury N. Carolina, in all these services during
one year or upwards he believes said Geo House actually
served more than three months as a useful soldier
and afterwards he saw said Houser Guarding the
prisoners that were taken at the Battle of Kings 
Mountain at the old Moravian town and believes he served
the other tours of service as stated in the foregoing
Declaration of his widow Magdalena Hanser Sworn to ┃
and subscribed the date above mentioned
before me            J. Venable
C. Banner JP
George Kregar Declares on his oath that he seved
with George Houser & John Venables aforesaid as above
Stated & that the above statement made by Venables is correct
Sworn to & subscribed the date above
before me 
Banner J.P.
George Kregar X his mark

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State of North Carolina
Stokes County      I Reuben D. Golding
Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter (illegible) for Stokes County aforesaid do hereby certify that Charles Banner is a Magistrate of said court as above, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In (illegible) whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office and subscribed my name this 6th day of May 1839.
Reuben D. Golding
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[transcribing in clockwise order, from top]

3307 
Magdalena Houser
wid of Geo. dec
N. C. 
Act. July 4, 1836

Hon
A. H Shepperd

[illegible]

3307 
Magdalena Houser
Pension Papers
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
Be it known that on the 5th day of
March 1838 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace in &
for the County aforesaid personally appeared Ephraim Banner who
is on the Pension Roll of U. States, a resident of the County aforesaid, and
he being sworn according to Law, to declare what he knows concerning
Services rendered by the late George Houser Esq. Decd during the Revolutionary
waar, declares on his Oath that he served a Tour of service in Col. Williams
Regiment of Militia with said George Houser in Capt Smiths Company
to the Cherokee Nation of Indians, March first to the Mulberry fields in
Wilkes County & returned to Surry and Rendezvoused at Myers old
fields Near old Richmond (Surry Court house, organized & March to
said Nation of Indians in the latter part of the summer & fall of 1776
& return about Christmas in this expedition said George Houser acted
as Lieutenant or Ensign under Capt Smith, we were gone upwards of
four months in all, & that sometime after that about a year said
George Houser was married to a Miss Magdalena Shore daughter of
Henry Shore Sen. Decd by Matthew Brooks Esquire a Justice of the
peace in Surry County aforesaid that he knew & saw said Brooks
often sitting on the Bench holding Courts at Surry Court house in
them days & in time of the war, and further he declares that he saw
said Houser in the service ranging after Tories as Minute Man
& guarding the prisoners that was at the old Moravian Town, taken
at the Battle of Kings Mountain, and he understood that said
Houser was one of the Company that was taken on supprise
& run from a party of Tories at Surry Court house (old Richmond)
some years before the above mentioned battle; the said George
Houser has been dead nearly twenty years leaving his wife
Magdalena a widdow who has remained a Widdow ever since
his death. Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year first above
written before me. J. Banner J.P.
Ephraim X Banner his Mark
on the same day above written personally
appeared before me the subscribing Justice of the peace
Joseph Banner also a Pensioner of the United States
and
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and he being sworn according to law declares on his
Oath that the foregoing Deposition of his Brother Ephraim
Banner being read to him, is just true, to the best of his 
recollection as he served the tour to the Cherokee Nation of Indians with
the said Ephraim Bonner & George Houser as named in said
Deposition & other particulars therein stated, as well as his
Marriage to Magdalena Shores, that he was well acquainted
both with her & family & the Houser family before & since
their marriage, Sworn & Subscribed this 5th March 1838.
before me
S. Banner J.P.

Joseph X. Banner his Mark

State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
I Charles Banner a Justice
of the peace in and for the County of Stokes hereby certify that the
foregoing named Ephraim Banner & Joseph Banner are
residents of the County aforesaid, and are believed and reputed to
be persons of respectability for Veracity & truth in the County
& neighborhood where they reside. that they swore to & subscribed
their Depositions aforesaid before me
S. Banner J.P.

Carolina
Stokes County ⎬ On the 2nd day of March 1838 before
me the Subscribing Justice of the peace personally appeared
Joseph Houser who is a credible person for truth
& he being sworn according to Law, deposeth & saith
that he well remembers that George Houser Esq did serve
as one of the guard when this Deponant hauled a waggon ┃
load of ammunition from Salem N Carolina to Henry Court
house in Virginia & was gone three or four weeks in that
service in January 1781, and previous thereto said George
Served Several Tours in Capt Merideth's Company of
Minute Man. Sworn & Subscribed the date above before me
S. Banner
Joseph Houser X his mark
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes
I Reuben D. Golding Clery of the County Court of Pleas and quarter (illegible) for Stokes County aforesaid Certify that Charles Banner is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In (illegible) whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 12th day of March 1838.
Reuben D. Golding (illegible)
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106 Cherry St.
[illegible] N.C.
March 19, 1903
E. F. Ware[sic]
Dear Sir,
I enclose with this
letter all of the information
I have concerning a Revolutionary
Soldier George Houser or Hauser
Genge Houser or Cause
will be glad if you will kiindly
tell me - just where - book - volume
& page, this
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record is found?
Respectfully
Hon Chas Shelton
Winston-Salem, N.C.
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May 6 1889
Dear Mr Webber
I have heard that man
you are in the War Department & can perhaps 
furnish me with
the information I want. But
whether you are or not, perhaps
youo can put me in the way of
getting it - My grand father
George Hauser of Bethania
Stokes County, North Carolina was a
captain in the war of
the Revolution with great Britain
in 1781 before after
that day-- I know that my grandmother 
drew a pension
as his widow. I suppose that the
proof exists either in the
war or pension office of
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his services & the position he
held this transpired
before my time I am ignorant
about  it & only know from heresay
I would like to have a certificate
or statement from the proper officer
in the war or pension office
that he was a Captain on the
American side & the services
he rendered as such officer-
I will be very much obliged to
you for any services you can
render me in that direction
& I am willing to pay for any
trouble or expense to be
incurred. Will you have the kindness
to answer this
Very Truly Yours
W. A. Hanson
My address is either this hotel or P.O. Box No. 11
My grandmothers name is Mary Hauser
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Writing Faded

Seal marked Returned May 9, 1889
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IN DEO FIDUCIA NOSTRA
HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE 33D DEGREE
OF THE A. & A. SCOTTISH RITE.
FOR THE SOUTHERN JURISDICTION, U. S. A.
433 THIRD STREET N. W.
Or. of Washington, District of Columbia,
the 8 day of May 1889.

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Sir
The information desired in the
enclosed letter would be appreciated by Mr Hauser
whom I have known for 40 years
If his request will be possible
to grant I trust it will be, if not, such information
or evidence from your office as can be granted
will be appreciated.
Please send it to me when it
is ready & oblige
I am respectfully
Fred Nobles