Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S., for William H Price, North Carolina
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SERVICE
N.C.

Price, William H.

NUMBER
S.?

Cef. 22018

CONTENTS
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Cert 22018
Wm H Price
Roll of Kentucky
30 Dollars-- Cents per annum
be 4th day of March 1831
Pension issued the 26 day of Sept
1833 and William L Willis
(torn)
(torn) 4th Sept 1833                        $75. 
allowance ending 4 March '34         $15.
                        $90.00
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Danl Boyd Clerk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832--
State of Kentucky County of Adair, SC
On this seventh day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court being the circuit court holden  for said county now siting - William H. Price a resident of Adair County and state of Kentucky, aged seventy seven years on the 31st day of March 1832, who being first duty sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to the benefit of act of congress passed the 7th June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein state of He entered the service as well as he recollects in the year 1779 ( he is certain however it was about five or six months previous to  latest defeat) under the following Officers Major Agrippa (not recollecting) Nichols-- Captain John White Lieutenant when he entered the service he resided in the County of Warren and State of North Carolina and was drafted to serve his months in the malitia in said-- for which he was drafted, from said County Warren he marched to Halifax town North Carolina to the Rendezvous from thrice to Raleigh North Carolina when he joined later Army-- and was at later defeat near the Yadkin river-- after this he returned home. He thinks but of this is not certain that the colonels name was Sharp who in command under who he served in. 
He was drafted a second time for a term of three months as well as he remembering  about the month of February 1780 in said county of Warren N.C. and served in the Lighthouse under the following officers--Malmoda Colonel-Thomas Alstin- Captain. Marched from Thence to Charles Eatons Caswell County where they-rendezvoused-after this he continued attached to some scouting party or another for the purpose of subdividing the tories in many different places until ordered to join Greens Army, which he did, on the morning previous to the Battle of Guilford, and he was in that Battle which took place the 15th of March 1781 and was in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Reed to which he had been attacked after the rendezvous - after the Battle the troops
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ralied at Troublesome about 12 miles west of
Guilford thence marched in pursuit of Cornwallaces army to Ramsaurs Mills on deep
river, where the pursuit ended. thence marched again for Camden to meet Lord Rawdon. the time for which he was drafted being now ended he was permitted to return home and got his discharge at Halifax town from the Commissary General Long having served in all nine months. What has become of his discharge he cannot certainly say. he remembers to have seen it among his papers a few years since, but has made diligent
search for it since and cannot find it. he thinks it probable that he burnt it, together with other papers which he considered useless some few years since. He knows of no witnesses in this section of Country by whom he can prove any thing in relation to his services in the war of the revolution except John Price & William Moss whose affidavits will accompany this declaration. he states that he was born in Caroline County Virginia near Bowling Green 31st of March 1755 and has the record of his age in his Bible. at about 12 years of age he moved to Brunswick County Va, about 14 years of age he removed to
Macklenburgh County Va. at about 19 years of age he removed to what was afterwards called Warren County North Carolina where he lived untill the year 1794 in that year he moved to Kentucky and lived in Mercer County untill the year 1797 when he moved to what was then
called Green County, but now called Adair– where he has lived ever since.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or any annuity, except the present, and he declares his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                           William H X Price
                             X his mark
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we William Moss Clergy and resident citizens of Adair County Kentucky do certify that we are acquainted with William H Price who has subscribed to foregoing declaration, and we believe him to be of the age he has stated in his declaration, and that he is now and has been for many years reputed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution,  and we never heard it doubted and we concur in that opinion and believe he served as he has stated in his declaration witness our hands this 7th day of September 1832, sworn and subscribed this date aforesaid--
                               Wm Moss
                                Stephen Rogers
And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he States, and the court further certifies that William Moss who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Adair and is a credible person and that their Statement is entitled to credit.
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William Caldwell Clerk of the Adair Circuit Court certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of  the application of William H. Price for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereby set my hand and seal of office this 7th day of September 1832 and 41st year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
                            Wm Caldwell

13.566 
William H Price
Declaration for pension

Kentucky Adair County and circuit Sct
      I William Caldwell clerk of the circuit court in and for the county ang circuit aforesaid do certify that I have attached the foregoing declaration and affidavit of William Moss by the yellow ribbon hanging from the back of this sheet to the front and affixed the seal of said court
In Testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 18th day of May 1833
Wm Caldwell CACC

(seal)
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State of Kentucky  Adair County  Sct.
     Wm Moss this day came into the Adair circuit Court and made oath, that he is well acquainted with Wm H Price who has signed the declaration this day exhibited in court for a pension, and that he was acquainted with him at the time of the American revolution, and that shortly before the battle of Guilford,
the said Price was overseer for this affiants father, and left home, to go & join Greens army as a soldier, he was absent some months  how long he cannot say, and it was generally reported & believed in the neighbourhood then, that he was in Greens army as a soldier, & that he was in the Battle of Guilford and
he never heard it doubted – given under
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my hand this 7th day of Septr 1832
sworn to & subscribed the date above
                  Wm Moss
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State of Kentucky  Green County Sct
     This day personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for Green County Kentucky William H Price formerly a resident of Adair but now of Green County Ky who being first sworn according to law states that he has a record of of his age in his family Bible and according to that record he is 78 years
of age on the 31st day of March 1833  that he was born in the County of Caroline State of Virginia within about a mile of the Bowling Green. he was born in the year 1755 on the 31st day of March according to his register which was taken from his Fathers family Register. he is known to many persons in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief respecting his service in the Revolutionary war amongst who he would name General James Allen and Captain William Hobson in
addition to those whose affidavits he has heretofore taken and forwarded with his Original Declaration.
                      William H Price
Sworn to and subscribed this 6th day of May 1833 before me a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid.
Wm. B. Allen JPGC
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State of Kentucky, Green County Sct
     On this 6th day of May 1833 personally appeared before me Wm. B Allen a justice of the peace in and for Green County Kentucky, General  James Allen, Captain William Hobson & Thos. ST Moss who being first duly sworn state on their oath as follows viz - we are each of us well acquainted with John Price whose affidavit in relation to the services of William H Price in the Revolution is marked A and attached to the Declaration of said William H Price.  We also are well acquainted with William Moss whose affidavit in relation to the services of said William H Price is also attached to the said Declaration and marked B.  We further state that the said John Price and William Moss are men of credibility and truth and that their said affidavits in relation to the services of William H Price in the Revolution are entitled to full credit and belief. 
     We also state that we have been many years intimately acquainted with the applicant William H Price.  That he is a man of high respectability and
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undoubted veracity and we have the utmost confidence in any statement made by said William H Price and have no doubt but he served in the revolution as he has stated in his original Declaration.  
     Sworn and subscribed the day and date above before me.
Wm. B. Allen                 James Allen
                                     W. Hobson
                                     Thos. S.T. Moss

State of Kentucky
Green County Sct
     I Wm. B Allen a justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that James Allen Wm. Hobson and Thos. S.R. Moss - subscribed, sworn to the above affidavit in my presence, and that their statements are entitled to due faith & credit. -
May 6th 1833                
                      Wm. B Allen JPGC

State of Kentucky
Green County Sct
     I John Barret clerk of the court of Green County certify that William B Allen is a justice of the peace as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of my said office this 6th day of May 1833.
                          John Barret
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State of Kentucky  Green County Sct 
     This day personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for Green County Kentucky William H Price formerly a resident of Adair but now of Green County Ky who being first sworn according to to law states that he has a record of of his age in his family Bible and according to that record he is 78 years
of age on the 31st day of March 1833  that he was born in the County of Caroline State of Virginia within about a mile of the Bowling Green. he was born in the year 1755 on the 31st day of March according to his register which was taken from his Fathers family Register. he is known to many persons in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief respecting his service in the Revolutionary war amongst who he would name General James Allen and Captain William Hobson in
addition to those whose affidavits he has heretofore taken and forwarded with his Original Declaration.
                               William H Price
Sworn to and subscribed this 6th day of May 1833 before me a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid.
Wm. B. Allen JPGC
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John Prices
affidavit
For
Wm. H Prices
pension claim.
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State of Kentucky Green County To wit
     I John Barret Clerk of the County Court of Green County do hereby certify that William B Allen whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of his certification aforesaid an acting justice of the peace in and for said county and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given tohis official acts as such.    Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court this 3rd day of October 1832 and forty first year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

(seal)                        John Barret  CGC
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The Deposition of John Price taken at the office of Wm. B Allen in Greensburgh Ky this 24th day of August 1832 to be read as evidence of the services of Wm. H. Price in the War of the revolution, upon his application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. – this deponent of lawful
age and first duly sworn deposeth as follows to wit – That he is a man advanced in years, and labouring under the infirmities of age, so that he is unable to travel any distance without great inconvenience – he states further that he has been acquainted with Wm. H. Price from his youth, that he very well knows when said Wm. H Price entered the service of the United States in Warren County North Carolina as a
draft in the Malitia, I know when he stated from Warren County and of his return how long he served I am unable to state, I have heard him and our neighbours speak of his being in the service, and particularly that he was at the Battle of Guilford which was fought the 15th of March 1781  I know he was out at the time of Gates’ defeat and I have heard it frequently said by himself and others that he was at Gates defeat, I have been acquainted with and lived near him from that time to the present, and have no doubt in my own mind of his serving as he has stated in his declaration. I lived about a mile from him when he
stated both Campaigns – and further this deponent saith not
                 John Price      A

State of Kentucky Green County Sct.
     i Wm. B Allen a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid certify that the foregoing deposition was taken at the time and place and for the purposes mentioned in the caption hereof.  Given under my hand this 24th day of August 1832.
             Wm. B Allen    JPGC
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13.566
William H. Price

from 1779 private
9 months

$30.


Wm. T. Willis
Greensburg
Kentucky
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13.566
BRIEF in the case of William H. Price County of Adair in the State of Kentucky 
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge?   court
2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  77

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Drafted in 1779
Do.  1781 Feb

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
-6-
-3-

Rank.
As a
private
"

Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt. J. White, Maj. A. Nichol, 
Genl. Gates, Col. Sharp - 
Capt. T. Allstin, Col.. Malmoda
Genl. Greene, Col. Reed

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  Gates Defeat, Guilford Ct. House

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Warren Cty, N.C.

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary & witnesses

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  They are not attached to the Seal as required.

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

    F. Waugh
    Examining Clerk
    Feb. 18 1833
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                            August 17, 1934
                            xxxxxxxxxxxxx

                            BA-J/MCS
                            Wm. H. Price
                            Ctf. 22018

Jane Pierce Jennings Wilson
2201 Hanover Avenue
Richmond Virginia

Dear Madam:  

     Reference is made to your request for information in regard to William H. Price, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
     The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim of William H. Price (Certificate #22018) which was based upon his military service in the Revolutionary War.
     William H. Price was born March 31, 1755, in Caroline County, Virginia, about one mile from Bowling Green.  The names of his parents were not given.
     When about twelve years of age he moved to Brunswick County, Virginia.  When about fourteen years of age he moved to Mecklenburg County, Virginia.  When about nineteen he moved to what afterwards was called Warren County, North Carolina, where he lived until 1794 when he moved to Kentucky and lived in Mercer County until 1797 when he moved to what was then called Green County and later called Adair County.
     He enlisted five or six months previous to the battle of Gates' defeat (Camden) and served six months as private in Captain John White's Company in Colonel Sharp's North Carolina regiment and was in the battle of Gates' defeat.  He enlisted in February, 1781, and served three months as private in Captain Alstin's company in Colonels Malmedy's and reed's North Carolina regiments and was in the battle of Guilford.

See Heitman
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     He was allowed pension on his application executed September 7, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Adair County, Kentucky.
     In 1833 he was living in Green County, Kentucky.
     in 1832 one John Price stated that he lived about one mile from William H. Price when he enlisted in the Revolutionary War, relationship not given.  The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.

                      Very truly yours
                      A.D. HILLER
                      Assistant to Administrator

Date of death not in Agency Book
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Act
Jacket. 1832.

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                  Glasgow Ky
                  Sept. 21

Commissioner of Pensions
Wash. D.C.

Sir
     Will you please tell me if the maiden name of the wife of William H Price Revolutionary War Dept Certificate #22018, SAR Yr Book Ky Is. 1896 page 156 if her name is given, or to whom was his pension deferred.
     Thanking you in advance
           Respectfully
              Mrs. W.A. Yates

(stamp)

U.S. PENSION OFFICE
8
SEP
22
1926
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Columbia, Ky.
Nov. 10, 1925

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-
     I am informed that my ancestor William H. Price, who was a resident of Adair Co. Ky sometime in the year 1832 made application for pension for service in the war of the Revolution. 
     Will you please inform me whether or not his name appears as a soldier in that war and what he states
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in his application about the services rendered by him, and any other facts given in his application in regard to his life or family.
     Thanking you in advance for any assistance you may render me.
                      Very Truly
                      Georgia P. Crenshaw

(stamp)

U.S. PENSION OFFICE
NOV 13 1926
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

M.C.S.

November 16, 1926

Mrs. W.A. Yates
Glasgow
Barren County, Ky.

Madam:
     I have to advise you that in the papers of the Revolutionary War pension claim of William H. Price, Certificate #22018, the name of his wife does not appear.
     In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person to whom paid and possibly the date of death of William H. Price you should apply to the Civil Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following date:
      William H. Price, Certificate #22018, issued September 26, 1833, rate $30 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Kentucky Agency.

                  Respectfully,
                  WINFIELD SCOTT
                  Commissioner
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
M.C.S.

December 17, 1925

Georgia P. Cunshaw
Columbia
Ky.

Madam:
     I have to advises you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim of William H. Price, Certificate #22018, it appears that he was born March 31, 1755, in Caroline County, Virginia, about one mile from Bowling Green.
     While a resident of Warren County, North Carolina, he enlisted in 1780 and served six months as private in Captain John White's Company, Colonel Sharp's North Carolina Regiment;  he was in the battle of Camden.  He enlisted in February, 1781, and served three months as private in Captain Thomas Alstin's Company, Colonels Malmedy's and Reed's North Carolina Regiments;  he was in the battle of Guilford.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed September 7, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Adair County, Kentucky.  In 1833 he was living in Green County, Kentucky.
     There is no data on file relative to wife and children.
             Respectfully,
             WINFIELD SCOTT
             Commissioner
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DR. DAVID G. WILSON
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

(stamp)
RECEIVED 
AUG 6 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV. 
READER 12
VETS. ADM.

Aug. 3rd, 1934.

Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionery (sic)  Division,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-
     In the Pension Records at our Virginia Archives there appears the name of William H. Price, of Green Co., Kentucky, in the North Carolina Militia, Sept. 26, 1833.  If the papers in your office give any information concerning his family or place of residence and service I will greatly appreciate a copy of the same.

                           Sincerely yours,
                           Jane Pierce Jennings Wilson,
                           2201 Hanover Ave.,
                           Richmond, Va.
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Hon JL Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington City

Wm. H Price
Revy
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Greensburgh Ky. Sept 8th 1833

Dear Sir
     I return after long delay the claim of Wm. H. Price for a pension, amended when deposed of let me know.
                Yours respectfully,
                Wm. T. Willis

Hon JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Wm. H Prices
Pension
Declaration 
Amended

Greensburgh
Ky
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
William H. Price which require further proof or explanation

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
Yes

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?
Yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?   Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? no
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?1.2

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words.
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, A Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ___ yes ___ months, and ___ days, I served as a ___ For ___ months and ___ days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration in highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
QUERE XIV. PROOF OF SERVICE. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI. MODE OF AUTHENTICATING PAPERS. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.