Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11035, Daniel Walker, N.C.
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N.C.
Walker, Daniel
Elizabeth 
R. 11035
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Augt 2.3/52
Elizabeth Walker
[illegible] of Daniel
Mo. Clerk 1838-[illegible]
[illegible]
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State of Missouri
Lincoln County
S.S.
On this the 9 day of June (1852) eight hundred and fiftytwo. Personally appeared before me George M. [illegible] an acting Justice of the peace within and for the said county of Lincoln Mary Lyles (aged 68) sixty eight years a resident of the county and state aforesaid who first being duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath state that she is the daughter of Daniel Walker & Elizabeth Walker (dead). That the said Daniel Walker was in his lifetime a soldier in the army of the Revolution in the North Carolina line and died in Pike County Ms on the 8th day of January 1830 leaving the said Elizabeth Walker his widow. That the said Elizabeth Walker applied for revolutionary pension as the widow of said Daniel Walker (dead). But died on the 6th day of September 1846 without having been allowed a pension leaving this affiant Isabel Bean. James Walker, Elizabeth Beherst & [illegible] her children & her only surviving children. That she [illegible] as the administration of the estate of the said Elizabeth Walker (dead). The she has always understood from her parents that they were married in the state of North Carolina & she thinks in Gilford County. That she has often heard her Mother state that they lived in hearing of the Battle of Gilford and that her father the said Daniel Walker was in that Battle & They were married soon after the close of said war. That she is their oldest child and is now sixty eight years of age. That her parents always lived peaceably together as husband and wife was
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Always [illegible] as such from the earliest of her recollection up to the time of the death of her father aforesaid. That her mother the said Elizabeth Walker [illegible] of her said Father’s estate by law. That she makes this declaration on behalf of herself and the other surviving children for the purpose of claiming the pension due her said Mother at the time of her decease under the Acts of Congress 4 July 1836 7th July 1838 or any other act of resolution of Congress to the Benefit of which she is entitled. She further declares that the said Elizabeth Walker did not again intermarry after the death of the said Daniel Walker. But died his widow. That her said other has [illegible] made application for Revolutionary pension and to the testimony on file & to the records of said state of North Carolina she refers for evidence in support of her application.  
William Biggs
Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county. 
G.W. Hardest J.P. 
And I the just subscribed Justice do hereby certify that the above affiant is a [illegible] of high respectability unto all of whose statements the fullest faith and credit should be given in testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal. The 9th day of June 1859.
G.W. Hardesty J.P.
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That I Mary Lyles of Lincoln County in the state of Missouri daughter of Daniel Walker & Elizabeth Walker (dead) and Administration of the estate of Elizabeth late of said county of Lincoln & State of Missouri who was the widow of Daniel Walker
George H. [illegible] of [illegible] Kentucky my 
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9th June 1852
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William Biggs
Mary Lyles her mark 
Missouri Lincoln
9th June 
Justice of the Peace
Mary Lyle 
Her
George M. Hardesty
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State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
I hereby certify that George H. Hardest Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment now made and who has thereunto published his name was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereunto is genuine.
In [illegible] whereof I Francis Parker clerk of the County Court of said County hereunto at my hand affix the seal of said Court at [illegible] this 10th day of June 1832
Francis Parker Clerk
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[illegible] 1845
6438
State of Missouri 
County of Lincoln 
SS
On the 30th day of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & forty five, personally appeared before me [illegible] Judge of Lincoln County Court Elizabeth Walker @ resident of [illegible] in the county and state aforesaid age 81 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Daniel Walker who was @ Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. 21st on what day month & [illegible] where & by whom were you married Answer I was married on the 21st day of December 1783 in North Carolina Guilford County by Esquire [illegible] 22nd when did your husband die Answer he died on the 28th of January 1830 24th have you a family [illegible] when was it within & by whom in whose keeping has it been for twenty years past Answer I have had [illegible] 25th by whom can you prove that you are the wife of the soldier pensioned to 1794 and when does such [illegible] widow. Ans by Sarah Hughs now living in Pike County in this state. 26th whom can you prove the date of your husbands death. Ans. by Mary Liles. 27th did you marry again after you said husbands death. Ans. I did not 28th Was your husband even a pensioner. Ans. he was not 29th If your husband was not a pensioner state all you know or have heard in relation to his services the state he served in the length of time he served by whom can you prove his service where the witness resides the Battle he was in the name of the officers under whom served and all the [illegible] of his service
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Ans he first served six months as a volunteer in the [illegible] of South Carolina under General Buller he was in the battle at [illegible] he was [illegible] each term the first war and a private the last as a Lieutenant under Capt William [illegible] the last battle he was in  was under Capt [illegible] and Washington in North Carolina. 210th How long have you lived in the County where you now reside & from what state did you remove when you came here Ans I have lived in this County about ten years when I came here I removed from [illegible]
Elis [illegible]
Sworn and subscribed to before me on the day and year first above written 
Bice [illegible]
I certify that Mrs. Walker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration before me is unable from old age and bodily [illegible] to [illegible] our court at its usual place of sitting. Date this 30th day of January 1845
Brice [illegible]

State of Missouri 
County of [illegible] SS
Be it remembered that on this 30th day of January eighteen hundred and forty five before the undersigned one of the Judges of the county court of said county personally appeared Mary Siles, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose and say that she was acquainted with Daniel Walker in his [illegible] and with his widow Elizabeth Walker that said David Walker died on the 28th day of January AD 1830 and the the said Elizabeth Walker has not intermarried but remaining the widow of the said David Walker. - (subscribed and sworn to this 30th day of January 1845 
Brice [illegible]
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Identify the Mary Liles is a credible witness
Brice [illegible]
We David C. Liles and [illegible] H. Loug hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elizebth Walker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe her to be Eighty one years of age, that she is [illegible] and believed in the neighborhood where she resides to be the widow of Daivd Walker who was a soldier in the revolutionary war and we concur in that [illegible]
DC Liles
[illegible] 

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 12th day of July 1845
[illegible]
And I [illegible] Presiding Judge of the County Court within and for said county of Lincoln and state of Missouri declare my opinion after the investigation of this matter and after [illegible] the undersigned [illegible] by this war department that the above named applicant is the wife of the revolutionary soldier and that he served as she states and I further certify that it appears to me that D C Siles and [illegible] Song who has also signed the sworn is [illegible] of the county aforesaid, and are credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
This 12th day of July. 1845 [illegible]

[illegible]
State of Missouri
County of Lincoln 
I  Francis Parker clerk of the county court within and for the county and state aforesaid certify that Brice W [illegible] whose signature is officially affixed in his own [illegible]
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Hand writing to the written certificate is [illegible] the President of the County Court aforesaid being a court of record and that the signature of said David Hammack annexed to said certificates is genuine. 
[illegible] whereof I have here unto [illegible] hand and [illegible] the seal of said county & office this third day of March 18454
Francis Parker Clerk
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11035
Elizabeth Walker
Wid of Daniel
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11035
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12083
Elizabeth Walker [illegible]
May 16/45
Missouri 
[illegible] 14.45
Nathan Leater June 2 1846
Letr: to J.J. [illegible]
[illegible] 1838
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12083
Elizabeth Walker
Daniel
Missouri
Act 7. July ‘38
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Raleigh N.C.
Benefit Office 
I William Y [illegible] of [illegible] in and for the state of North Carolina do hereby certify that the name of Daniel Walker appears of record in this office in hearing had a [illegible] certificate paid in his family for six pounds (￡6) for military service as will be seen in Book of certificates No 6 page 37 [illegible] my hand and [illegible] this 22nd day July 1846
[illegible]
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Washington July 17 1846
Sir
I enclose herewith the certificate of [illegible] of North Carolina [illegible] service of Daniel Walker whose widow Elizabeth Walker of Missouri is an applicant for pension under the law of 7th July 1838 & who alleges she was married in Guilford Co North Carolina in 1783 - [illegible] also state here that I have written to the clerk of that county for evidence of that fact, which he informs me is not found among the records of his office after a [illegible] search. Are not the [illegible] sufficient in the [illegible] of record proof. Please examine & report upon the case at your earliest convenience & [illegible].
Very Respectfully Your obt servant
Nathan Leare 

Hm L.L. Edwaid
Court of Pensions
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State of Missouri
Lincoln County
On this twenty seventh day of [illegible] 1845  personally appeared  before Brice [illegible] one of the Judges of the County Court of Lincoln County state of Missouri Elizabeth Walker of the County and state aforesaid aged 83 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the [illegible] made by the Act of Congress passed [illegible] of 1838. That she is the widow of David Walker who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That [illegible] the regular troops in North Carolina state Caswell County under Captain [illegible] under General Butler in the month of April the date of the year not recollected from age and [illegible] and that he was in the battle of [illegible] under that [illegible] at the end [illegible] he received a discharge from [illegible] and it with a pocket book was stolen from him he again volunteered for the [illegible] County & state of North Carolina under [illegible] Swift to the best of my recollection and served in the militia service under [illegible] and under that [illegible] at the end of whitch time he received a discharge from Captain Swift whitch discharge is also last, services [illegible] of said times of services he was a private solider and [illegible] of the states of said services recollected by the applicant, but recollects that it was between 1776 and 1782, the said [illegible] enlisted a third time in the [illegible] County state of N Carolina for six months in 1786 to the best of my
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[illegible]
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State of Missouri
County of Lincoln 
I Brice [illegible] Presiding Judge of Lincoln County Court certify that Elizabeth Walker whose name is subscribed to the foregoing application before making the above declaration was by me sworn to state the truth of her knowledge [illegible] to the services of her husband as a volunteer soldier, and all matters connected with an application to [illegible] her to a pension - June 27th 1845
Bruce [illegible] P.S.C.C.
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State of Missouri
County of Pike
Be it remembered that on the third day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before me Newton [illegible] one of the Justice of the Peace for the County and aforesaid Sarah Hughs who being duly sworn doth state upon her oath that she was acquainted with Daniel Walker and Elizabeth Obanion in North Carolina Gilford County and they were joined together in married in the month of December 1783 and after said Daniel Walker was married he went out in to the services of the [illegible] and remained for nine months after which time he returned home to his family and as [illegible] during said services he was after the Indians and Torys. 
Sarah Hugh
Her mark 
Sworn and subscribed to before me the above day and date.
Newton [illegible] (Justice of the Peace) 
State of Missouri 
County of Pike
I [illegible] clerk of the County Circuit of said County certify that Newton [illegible], whose signature is signed to the foregoing [illegible] at the date thereof & is now an acting Justice of the peace, within and for said County duly qualified and [illegible] as such, & that his foregoing signature is [illegible] and genuine. 
[illegible] Clerk aforesaid and the seal thereof applied at office in [illegible] County this fourth day of July 1845
A.H. [illegible] Clerk
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State of Missouri
County of Indiana 
I Francis Parker Clerk of the County Court [illegible] and for the County and state aforesaid certify that Brice [illegible] whose name is officially affixed in his own [illegible] handwriting to the written and foregoing certificate of qualification is and was at the time of affixing his name thereto an acting Judge of said county court duly commissioned and qualified as such according to law [illegible] certify that in this said certificate the words “before working the above declaration” are [illegible] and that [illegible] appears in his said certificate in the third line from the bottom. In testimony whereof I have [illegible] and affixed the [illegible] of said county cotter at office in said county this 7th day of July A.D. 1845
Francis Parker Clerk
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6438
Elizabeth Walker
Missouri
Act 4 July ‘36
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6438
Elizabeth Walker
Missouri
Act 4 July ‘36

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State of Missouri
County of Pike
SS
Be it remembered that on this Twenty third day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace for the state and county aforesaid Sarah Hughs of the County of Pike and state of Missouri aged one hundred and two years old who having first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration.
Qr 1st what do you know [illegible] the marriage of Daniel Walker I saw him married to a Miss Elizabeth Obanion by a Justice of the Peace in the state of North Carolina 
Qr 2d And do you know of him being in [illegible] of the old war after he was married to said Elizabeth Obanion 
A I believe that he was in the service from all the information that I had and he was gone about nine months from his family the date of the same not recollected from old age and [illegible]. 
Sworn and subscribed to Before me this twenty third day of January A.D. 1845
Newton [illegible] Justice of the Peace
Sarah Hughs
Her mark
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State of Missouri
County of Pike
I [illegible] H. Buckmen Clerk of the County Court for said County of Pike, certify that [illegible] whose name appears to the within certificate, is as at the date thereof and now is, an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for said County. That his said certificate is in legal form and that full [illegible] and credit should be given to his official acts as Justice aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I [illegible] my hand and affix the seal of said County [illegible] in said county this the 18th day of February A.D. 1845
A.H. Buckiner Clerk
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