Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2119, for Edward Jackson, South Carolina
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SERVICE
S. C.
Jackson, Edward
Mary

NUMBER
W. 2119

[Faint Handwritten] Born in S.C.

CONTENTS
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No. 2
Edward Jackson

Revolutionary
Soldier

Declaration
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

Inferior Court [September - crossed out] October 1832
On this 5th day of [September - crossed out] October 1832
Person ly appeared in open Court (it being a Court of Record, Now Setting Edward Jackson. a resident of the Said County of Gwinnett & State of Georgia aged Seventy seven years. who being just duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he entered the Service in Chesterfield District South Carolina wherein he then resided as a Grafted Malitiaman he thinks in the year 1775 under Captain Griffeth for three months and attached to the command of Colonel Benton & Stationed at Cheraw Hills in South Carolina afterwards drafted again under Captain Lloyds in 1776 & Marched to Or(r)angeburg & from Thence to Blackswamp on Savannah River Thence to Puningsburg & from there to Coosehatchie where we had a Battle with the British & from thence to Charleston. he believes that Colonel Washington commanded at the battle at Coosahatchie. Afterward in 1777 Drafted again under Captain Griffith & Marched to long Bluff on Pedee River & there stationed to Guard Prisoners. Each of the above drafts was for 3 months Each & from which was regularly discharged by his officers. Afterwards he was frequently in the Service of this Country against the Tories whenever Called on, which was very often, until a General Peace was obtained. that he is Very Certain that
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The Services rendered the United States by him was as much as two years in regular towers (tours) & Scouting parties against the Tories & British from the time he first entered the Service of his Country until Peace was made. That all of his several services was rendered in the State of South Carolina. That his several discharges are [crossout - lost] lost or mislaid so that he cannot find them! [crossout - That sime the Revolutionary War he has resided first (smeared)] That all of these several services that he was attached to the Command of General Moultrie & all other those Scouting parties or tourers was under the before mentioned Captain Griffith. That since the Revolutionary war he has resided first in South Carolina & from thence to the State of Georgia & at this time is a resident of the County of Gwinnett & State last mentioned And that he has no documentary evidence whereby he can proove his services and that he knows of one person now living whose testimoney he can procure that will establish the same : He hereby relinquishes every Claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present. and declairs that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
in open court.

Edward Jackson
(attest) Nm. Maltbie Clk.

Georgia
Gwinnett County

Nu Mitchel Bennett a Clergyman
residing in the said County of Gwinnett and State aforesaid and Elisha Winn residing in the Same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edward Jackson who has Subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventyseven years
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Sworn to & Subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
in open court
(attest) Wm. Maltbie Clk.

Mitchel Bennett
Elisha Winn

Georgia
Gwinnett County

And the Said Court do hereby declair their opinion after the investagation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the at the Court further Certifies that is appears to the Court that Mitchel Bennett who has signed the presceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Gwinnett & Estate of Georgia and that Elisha Winn who has also signed the same is a resident of the state & county aforesaid and is a credible person and the their statements is entitled to Credit.

Cliffird Woodroof IIL
Reuben McClung IIE
[undecipherable smeared]
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I William Maltbie Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County & State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward Jackson for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 5th day of October 1832.

Wm. Maltbie C.f.C.
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Georgia 16.344

Edward Jackson
of Gwinnette in the State of Geo.
who was a Pv. in the [blank space] command 
by Captain [blank space] of the Regl command
by Col: 
Burton on the Nola
line for 9 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia 
at the rate of 30 Dollars [blank] cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of July '33 and Seventh [unreadable]

Lawrenceville, Geo.

Arrears t the 4th of March 1839 - 60
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept - 15
$75

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J Rice Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 6 Page 94
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Widow died Jan. 4, 1854
See A. B.
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Mary Jackson 922
[wi]dow of Edward
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private Jackson S.C. Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 dollars per annum, to commence on
[crossed out - 4th day of March, 1848]
[handwritten] 3 February 1853

[Cer]tificate of pension issued the 13th day of July 1853 and sent to Chas C Tucker prest

[Recor]ded on Roll of Pensioners under act
[crossed out] Pge 157 Vol. A Feb 1833

[Handwritten in pencil] She died January 4, 1854 (from A.B.)
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

On this 5th day of March A.D. 1853. Personally apprased before me a Justice of the Inferior Court within and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs. Mary Jackson a resident of the County and State  aforesaid aged about 84 years, who being duly sworn, according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed February 3rd 1853; that she is the widow of Edward Jackson deceased, late of the County and State aforesaid, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and drew thirty dollars per annum, at the Pension agency in the city of Savannah, in the state of Georgia. She further declares, that she was married to the said Edward Jackson. On the day of June A.D. 1803; and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Hall, that her said husband, the aforesaid Edward Jackson Died on or about the [  ] day of February 1845 that she was married to him at the time above stated. She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the ace, and is still a widow, and that she has never before made application for a pension.
her X mark: Mary Jackson 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I certify that the above named Mary Jackson form extreme old age and bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open Court. And that I believe that said Mary Jackson is the widow of the Identical Edward Jackson who was a Revolutionary pensioner as above described and the I have no Interest in any manner whatever in the recovery of Said Pension claims.
Renan S Sessell JJle
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

Know all men by these presents that I Mary Jackson of the state and County aforesaid, hereby constitute and appoint Charles C. Tucker, esq. of Washington City, District of Columbia my true and Lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosicute my claim for a Revolutionary Pension for the Military service of my deceased husband, Edward Jackson, who was a Revolutionary pensioner, and I hereby authorize my said attorney to Examine all the papers on file at Washington City or elsewhere, and to file additional evidence and arguments necessary and to receive a certificate for the amount of Pension due me and aforesaid hereby rattifying and confirming whatsoever my said attorney shall or may lawfully do in the premised by visiture hereof.
Witness my hand and seal. This 5th day of March A.D. 1853.
Attest by Roberts
Joseph B. Mills

her X mark Mary Jackson 

State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

On this 5th day of March A.D. 1853.
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Inferior Court within and for the County and the State aforesaid, Mary Jackson, who had sworn to and subscribed the within declaration and acknowledged the above power of Attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes within mentioned. And I certify that I believe the said Mary Jackson to be the Identical person she represents her self to be and that I am not engaged in the prosecution of said claim nor have no interest  in the same.
Herman T Terrell, JSC
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April 6, 1938

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Edward Jackson, W.2119
BA-J/MCS

Mr. David J. D. Myers
Georgian Hotel
Athens, Georgia 

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to you request for information relative to the Revolutionary War soldier, Edward Jackson.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.2119, based on the military service of Edward Jackson.

He was born February  14, 1755, in Craven Count (which was later Chesterfield District), South Carolina. The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Chesterfield District, South Carolina, he enlisted in 1775 and served at various time until the close of the Revolution, amounting to about two years in all, as private in Captains Grifith's and Lloyd's companies in Colonel Benton's South Carolina regiment. He was in the battle of Coosahatchie.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 5, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Edward Jackson died February 22, 1845, in Walker County Georgia.

While a resident of Jackson County, Georgia, he married in June, 1803, in that county, Mary Hall. He had been previously married, but the date of marriage and name of wife are not shown.

On account of the Revolutionary War service of Edward Jackson, his widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed March 5, 1853, at which time she was aged about eighty-four years and a resident of Gwinnett County, Georgia
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Mary Jackson died January 4, 1854.

In 1853, William Jackson, soldier's son, was sixty-three years of age and was a resident of DeKalb County, Georgia. Will Jackson referred to his brother but did not give his name.

One Elisha Will of Gwinnett County, Georgia, acted as a witness for the soldier in 1832. In 1853, Joseph B. Mills, aged forty-five years, and Warren W. Kicker, aged thirty years, both residents of Gwinnett County, and James Roberts acted as witness for the widow.

There are no further data on file relative to the family of Edward Jackson.

No charge is made for this information.


Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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1911 Jan. 12. Hon. Gordon Lee
advised as per carbon letter ¢.

1921, July 5 hist. to Miss Mary A Stegall. Ew.

1931, June 11 hist. to Hon. W. C. Tarver W.C.S.

1938, Apr. 6. hist. to Mr. David J. D. Meyers W.C.S.
1938, July 6. David J.D. My[ers]
add cost of photos. MSP
1938 - July 15. D.J.D. Myers ad
further [-isr] re. copies. MS[P]
1938Aug. 15 Photos mailed to David J.D. Myers and Acctg. Did note same date MLB

[upper left ink handwriting] Rw has

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2119
Mary Jackson, Widow
Edward Jackson
Pw Rev. Wan.
Feb 8. 1853

Index: --Vol. A, Page 370

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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May 10. 1853

Rel: to claim of "Mrs Jackson"

And R. Moore

Griffin Ga.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE. OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Commissioner.
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April 28. 1853

Apple. of Mary Jackson widow of Edward
Gwinnett Co y 
GA

32 / 16344
Acl 30 Seby:1853

Reuy:
Adm & $30 per annum
Commencing 3.Feby 1853.

Chs
C. Lucker
Present

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
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Revy Pension Claim
As of Feb 3 1853

Mary Jackson
widow of
Edward Jackson
(Ga.)

Chas. C. Tucker
Atty.
Present -
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Brief in the case of Mary Jackson, widow of Edward Jackson
Gwinnett County and State of Georgia 
act 3d February 1853

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner under the Act 7th June 1832, as private, $30 per annum
Marriage proved by parol testimony
Witness Certified to be credible.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Charles C. Tucker Esq Present
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Georgia
Jackson County

I John G PIttman ordinary for County aforesaid certify that there is no Record of the Marriage of Edward Jackson to Mar of Polly Hall to be found in my office

Given under my hand and Seal of office
18th March 1853
John G. Pittman Ord

James Roberts
Sir there are no marriages of Record before 1805 in my office & very few up to 1812

12 March 1853

I am Sor yours VC
John G. Pittman
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County
On this fifteenth day of March AD 1853.
Personally approved before a Justice of the Interior Court within and for the County and State aforesaid Joseph B. Mills aged 45 years and Warren W. Kicker, aged 30 years, both residents of the county and state aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to Lay, deposit and saith that they were both well acquainted with Edward Jackson and wife, Mary Jackson, that the said Edward Jackson was a Revolutionary pensioner, unto the time of his death which took place in the Month of February A.D. 1845 in Walker County in the State of Georgia, that dependents witnessed his death. 
That Mary Jackson, who has sworn to and subscribed the within declaration, is the widow for the said Edward Jackson, and was a widow at the passage of the act of Feby 3rd 1853, and is still a widow, and resides in the County aforesaid.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the day and year above written. and I certify that Josep B. Mills & Warren W. Kicker
is credible Witness, and that I have no Interest in the result or prosecution of said clarion.
Hessan T. Tenell J.I.C.

Joseph B. Mills
Warren W. Kicker
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County
js.
I Lemuel Jackson, Clerk of the Inferior County within and for the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that Hernan T. Terrell Esq. whose name appears to the within declaration and affadavits and Power of Attorney is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Inferior Court duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by Law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements on general purposes, and that his written official signatures to the foregoing is genuine and that said Inferior Court is a court of Record.

Given under my hand and seal of Office at Lawrenceville. This 16th day of March A.D. 1853.
Lemuel C. Jackson Clk IC
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FREE
[postmark] GRIFFEN / MAY 4 /GA

5 (overprinted with)"FREE"

Hobble G E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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J E Heath comr Pension
Griffin Ga May 2 1853

It is long very long - service I was informed that the Pension of Mrs Jackson was allowed. But some additional evidence was required - And that I foresaw & forwarded some many months ago her whereabouts and would be glad to know what is to be the fate of the application by letter of 24th of February 1853. I am informed that a Land warrant was issued in favor of Golem W Brantl and sent to the care of Mr Bryan, That the records of the  General Land Office, will show the location of the land & by tracing at the original. The parcel [prastead] if any will be discovered. If persons who have been [scessaded] by Forgers have to seek access by prosecution to conviction or having the warrant or grant declared void, which is a rather strange idea to me when the government is bounded for Mr Tille. I am at a loss to know, how a remedy can be had without greater costs from the worth of the pension. I had supposed that it would be the duty of of the government to know that it pays that the hue creditor & that its responsibility was not discharges by attempting to perform its contracts with a wrong person. If however anything can be done by a search in the Land office. Please send this letter to that office with such information to and his officer thereis as may be necessary to make him to furnish information again. If out of the [acudres] of the pension department
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In balance to such matters. And I can be so informed I will write ththat department on the subject.
Yours respectfully
Andrew R Moon

[postmark] FREE / GRIFFIN / MAY 4 / GA
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Pension Office,
June 30. 1853

Sir,
Please certify the time to which Edward Jackson a revolutionary pensioner was last paid or(if the information be in your possession) the precise date of his death. He was pensioned under the Ace of June 7. 1832, as a private, at $30 per annum - pension payable at the Savannah (Georgia) agency.

Very respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't
LPMeldo
[crossed out For the] Commissioner
Of Pensions

Died 22 of Feby 1845, and paid to his death.
F Burk Auditor

Francis Burk Esqr.
Third Auditor,
Treasury Department
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

 On this the second day of April in the year One thousand Eight hundred & fifty three. Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid. Mary Hall aged 70 years a resident of Gwinnett County in the state aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath say that she was well acquainted with Edward Jackson and Mary Hall that deponents husband was a brother of the said Mary Hall and the the said Edward Jackson and Mary Hall was married in Jackson County in the State of Georgia sometime in the month of June A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and three. by a man by the name of Hogg who was a Justice of the Peace department does not recollect his Christian name. Know they were married was present at this marriage, and they lived together as man and wife and was all the times of such  such wife upon the time of his death of the said Edward Jackson, and that his wife Mary Jackson resided in Gwinnett County and was a widow at the passing of the act of the third of February 1853, and still a widow and this said Edward Jackson was a Revolutionary Pensioner and drew a pension of Thirty Dollars per annum at the Pension agency in the city of Savannah in. the State of Georgia.
Mary (her X mark) Hall

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I certify that the said Mary Hall, is well known to me. that she is a credible witness and or person of good moral character and in every way entitled to full credit and that I have no interest in this case nor am I engaged in its prosecution.
William P.A. Timms JP
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Lemuel Jackson, Clerk of  the Inferior Court within and for the County and State aforesaid do here by certify that William P. A. Timms, Esq. before whom the within affidavit was made is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes. and that for his written official signature to the within is his genuine signature. and that said [infenor] is a Court of Record.
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Lawrenceville in Gwinnett County State of Georgia on this 11th day of April A.D. 1853
Lemuel Jackson, Clerk IC

[Seal of the Inferior Court]
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State of Georgia
DeKalb County

On this Eighth day of April A.D. One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty three. Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, William Jackson aged 63 appears a resident of DeKalb County in the State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath says that he is the son of Edward Jackson, late of Gwinnett County State of Georgia deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner, and received a Pension of Thirty Dollars per annum, which Pension was paid at the Pension agency at the City of Savannah in the State of Georgia up to the time of the death of said Edward Jackson, which took place in Walker County in the State of Georgia in the month of February A.D. 1845. dependent was not present at his death, but knows that he is dead, has since saw his grave. It was pointed out to him by his dependents, brothers at the grave of their father, and that his widow, dependents, step mother returned to Gwinnett County in the state aforesaid where she now resides. that dependent resided with his father Edward Jackson in the County of Jackson in the State of Georgia in the year One thousand Eight hundred and three at which time his father, Edward Jackson, was married to Mary Hall in the County of Jackson in the State of Georgia in the Month of June A.D. Once thousand Eight hundred and three by one Thomas Hogg, a Justice of the Peace, [deposed,] was present and witnessed their marriage.
And supposed this was a public record of their marriage in Jackson County, but had lately been informed that there is no public or private record of their marriage. That his father Edward Jackson and his step Mother Mary Jackson lived together as man and wife and was at all times reputed as such up to the time of the death
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of the said Edward Jackson, which took place at
the time above stated, that his widow Mary
Jackson still resides in Gwinnett County in
the State of Georgia, and was a widow at the
passage of the act of the third of February A.D. 1853.
and is still a widow and that her declaration
for a pension has been Exhibitted to deponent and he
believing the same to be substantially true and that
he has no interest in this claim.       
his
 William [ink spot] Jackson 
mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and
year above written. And I certify that the said
William Jackson is well known to me, that he
is a man of respectability truth and varacity
and to whose testimony full faith and credit
is due and should be given. and that I
have no interest in the result of this claim, nor
am I engaged in its prosecution.
James B. McAlister J.P.
Georgia}  I Abn. Johnson Clerk of the
DeKalb County}  Inferior Court do hereby
certify that James R. McAllister Esqr
whose name appears above is an acting
Justice of the Peace in and for said County
duly commissioned and sworn and that
he is fully authorized to administer oaths
for general purposes and that his
Signature hereto is genuine
Given under my hand officially
and Seal of the Inferior Court
this 8th April 1853
Abn. Johnson C.I.C.
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Georgia
Gwinnett County ⎬ 
Personally appeared before me the
undersigned a Justice of the Peace for
said County. Edward Jackson who being duly sworn
deposeth & saith that by reason of old age & the conse
quent loss of memory he cannot swear positively
as to the precise light of his service but according to
the best of his recollection he served not less than
the periods mentioned below and he is certain
[writing between these 2 sentences "tours in his declaration mentions"]
so far as relates to the time first named tours, but
had positively certain as to the date but to the best
of his recollection they are correctly stated, and the
several grades are recollected - In 1775 a tour of
three months I served as a drafted private militiaman
under the officers as stated in the Declaration of
which this is an amendment - In 1776 In March
I entered the service again & served as stated in the
Declaration another tour of three months as a drafted
Militia private-
In 1777 - I again entered the
Service as a drafted militia private & Served
Another tour of three months in that capacity under the
command of the officers named in the Declaration
and for such service I claim a pension.
And deponent further saith that in further
amendment of his said declaration and which
was therein omitted by the writer -  that he was
born the 14th day of February 1755 In then Craven
County now Chesterfield District & State of South 
Carolina -that the Record of his age has been lost
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and he will recollect the dates it contained inspite
his age. And deponent further states that he
is well acquainted with John Mills the undersigned
Justice of the Peace William Mattlin Clerk of the
Inferior Court of the County of Gwinnett- Mitchell
Bennett & & Elisha Winn who have testified and with
James Wardlaw Clifford Woodroof & Reuben
McLung Esqrs Justices of the Inferior Court
all
of whom & many other respectable neighburs
can testify to his character for veracity and
their belief of his services as a soldier of the
Revolution
Sworn to & Subscribed
before me this 15 April 1833
[signature] Edward Jackson
John Mills J P
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acting Justice of the Peace for
said County and that full faith
and credit ought to be had and given
to his attestation as such - And that
I have been well acquainted with
Edward Jackson the person sworn
by & before said John Mill for the last 
fifteen years and that I believe 
him to be a man of truth & veracity
Given under my hand & Seal of Office this 18th
day of April 1833
[signature] Wm Maltbie C.H.
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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
__________
Charles F. Scott, Kans., Chairman.
William W. Cocks, N. Y.
Ralph D. Cole, Ohio.
Gilbert N. Haugen, Iowa.
James C. McLaughlin, Mich.
Willis C. Hawley, Oreg.
Joseph Howell, Utah.
Pleasant T. Chapman, Ill.
Charles C. Pratt, Pa.
L. B. Hanna, N. Dak.
Frank Plumley, Vt.

John Lamb, Va.
Asbury F. Lever, S. C.
Jack Beall, Tex.
William W. Rucker, Mo.
Augustus O. Stanley, Ky.
Gordon Lee, Ga.
James T. McDermott, Ill.
William H. Andrews, N. Mex.

George W. Reichard, Clerk.

House of Representatives U.S.,
Committee on Agriculture,
Washington, Jan. 11, 1911

Hon. Jas. L. Davenport,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Edward Johnson, of Gwinnett County, Ga., was placed
on the pension roll July 1st, 1833. He was pensioned for
service in the Revolutionary war and served in the North Ca-
rolina militia. I want to know, if possible, the postoffice
to which that pension was mailed. If you cannot furnish me
this information will you kindly write me where I can procure
it, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
Gordon Lee
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2116 Union Ave.
Chattanooga, Tenn.

Pension Dept.
United States War Dept.
Gentlemen:
My ancestor, Edward 
Jackson, private, served in the
North Carolina Militia during
the Revolutionary War. He was
placed on the Pension Roll
July first, 1833. -Senate Doc-
uments, Pension Roll, 1st ses-
sion 23rd Congress, Page 40.
As this information is not
first-hand, I would like to
get a complete record, giv-
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ing, if possible, date of birth,
and any other information
obtainable.
Hoping to hear from you in
regard to this matter, I am
Very truly yours,
(Miss) Mary A. Stegall
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European Plan
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LUTHER W NELSON
PRESIDENT

GEORGIAN HOTEL   PRINCETON HOTEL
ATHENS, GA             GAINESVILLE, GA.
April 11, 1938
A. D. Hiller, Esquire,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator,
Veteran's Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I beg to acknowledge with many thanks
the receipt of your letter of April 6, 1938,
(Reference File Edward Jackson, W. 2119
BA-J/MCS) furnishing in full and 
in great detail the requested infor-
mation on my great-great-grand-
father's Revolution record.
It is noted that there is no 
charge for the information.
I expect to publish a booklet
on the descendants of Edward
Jackson who lies buried in the
Poe Cemetery, west side of Alabama
Road, about 1½ miles north of
Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia.
I am anxious to obtain from
(over)
1
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2 
your office a full or photostatic
copy of some of the records of the
case of Edward Jackson, especial-
ly that of his and his widow's
petitions, and of the two orders
granting the requested petitions.
If this can be done, please let
me know the cost in order
to make the necessary remittance.
Thanking you in advance for
the courtesy of your attention to
this request, I am,
Very respectfully yours,
David J. D. Myers,
American Foreign Service Officer Retired.
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MODERN COFFEE SHOPS
European Plan
FIREPROOF
LUTHER W NELSON
PRESIDENT

GEORGIAN HOTEL   PRINCETON HOTEL
ATHENS, GA.            GAINESVILLE, GA.

March 14, 1938
[large RECEIVED stamped in middle of the above with date Mar 17 1938]

The Pension Bureau
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
I desire to obtain as much official in-
formation as possible from the records
of your office on Edward Jackson,
my great-great-grandfather who was
born in South Carolina on February 14,
1755 and died in Walker County, Georgia,
in February 1845. He served thoughout,
the Revolutionary War in the North Carolina
Militia. He first married Charity Hill
and on her death, married Mary Hall
in June 1803. About 1805 or 1806 he moved his family to Gwinnett County, Georgia.
He received a pension from July 1, 1833,
and his widow Mary Hall Jackson
was granted a pension in 1857 if my
records are correct.
I desire to obtain copies of any records
showing dates, names of relatives, etc.,-ei-
ther written or photostatic-and will
be glad to send funds to cover cost
on hearing from you the amount required.
Very respectfully,
David J. D. Myers
American Foreign Service Officer, Retired
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[left side]
M. C. TARVER
7TH DIST. GEORGIA

[right side]
COMMITTEES:
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
EDUCATION
REVISION OF LAWS
ELECTIONS No. 2

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

June 4, 1931
Dalton, Ga.,

Mr. E. W. Morgan,
Act. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Morgan:

I would be pleased to have you
furnish me a copy of the claim for pension filed
by Edward Jackson, a Revolutionary soldier, and
all information available touching his military
record.
I am informed that the Senate
Document Pension roll of 23rd Congress, page 40,
gives his name as Edward Jackson, of Gwinnett County,
Ga., as a Revolutionary pensioner for service in
North Carolina Militia, placed on the pension roll
July 1st, 1833, aged 74.
Thanking you, I am,
Yours truly,
[illegible signature]
Page 40

Georgian Hotel,
Athens, Georgia,
July 11, 1838.

A. D. Hiller, Esquire,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator,
Veterans Administration,
Arlington Building,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
I beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your
letter of July 6, 1938, (Reference file EDWARD JACKSON W.
2119 BA-J/MMHF: MLB), regarding photostatic copies of the
papers on file in the claims for pension of Edward and Mary
Jackson, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
It is noted that the cost of photostatic copies is
twenty-five cents a page, the number of pages to be copied
being eighteen, and that remittance should be made by money
order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United 
States, and mailed to the Veterans Administration, Arling-
ton Building, Washington, D. C.
It is added that the papers in these claims for pension
are very old and frail indeed, therefore, the preparation of
photostatic copies is necessarily injurious to them.
As you can well understand I am among the last persons
who would knowingly do anything tending to cause the destruc-
tion of the papers in this case in which I am so vitally and
personally interested since they are the few remaining papers
in existence in which my great-great-grandfather Edward Jack-
son and his widow were personally involved and I wish for
their preservation.
I beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your
Since my retirement from the Foreign Service I have had
as a hobby the preparation of a complete a list as possible
of the descendants of the said Edward Jackson and I am meet
ing with considerable success. When completed the results will 
be published in book form for the benefit of his survivors, and
it is desired to include copies in the publication of the cor-
respondence, etc., in case W.2119. Type written or hand writ-
ten copies will suit my purposes even better than photostatic
copies. Please let me know the cost in order that I may make
remittance.
Thanking you in advance for the courtesy of your atten-
tion to my request, I am,
Very respectfully yours,
David J. S. Myers
Page 41

A. D. Hiller, Esquire,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator,
Georgian Hotel,
Veterans Administration,
Arlington Building,
Washington, D. C.
Athens, Georgia,
Dear Sir:
July 21, 1938.
164
2
8
of
I beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter
of July 15, 1938, ( Reference file number EDWARD JACKSON W. 2119
BA-J/MMHFMLB), stating your belief that the style and handwriting
and other features, as shown in exact copies of the old documents
in Pension Case W. 2119, of Edward and Mary Jackson, will
prove to be of more value to me than typewritten or handwritten
copies.
Consequently, photostatic copies are being prepared under
special supervision in this case and will be mailed to me upon
6, 1938.receipt

of $4.50, remitted as directed in your letter of July
I am pleased to enclose herewith a local Post Office Money
correspondence in Case W. 2119.
Thanking you again for for your final
case, I am,
acti
on in this
Very respectfully yours,
David J.D. Myers
Order for $4.50, payable to the
order of the Treasurer of the
United States in payment of the 18 photostatic sheets of the
Retired American Foreign Service Officer
and great-great-grandson of Edward Jackson
and his wife Charity "Polly" (Hill) Jackson
Enclosure;
Post Office Money Order for $4.50.
Page 42

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., July 6, 1924

In reply to your request of _____, received
for a statement of the military history of Edward Jackson
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau. W. 2119
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
1775

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
RANK.
served as Pvt
various times
in [illegible] of war
in all 2 yrs

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Griffeth
Lloyd
COLONEL.
Benton
STATE.
S. C.
Battles engaged in, Coosahatchie
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Chesterfield Dist S.C.
Date of application for pension, Oct 5, 1837 cl al
Residence at date of application, Gwinnett Co. Ga
Age at date of application,
b. Feb 14 1755 in Craven [illegible] later Chester-
field Dist SC d. Feb. 22 1845 in Walker Co., Ga.
who was his 2" wife name of 1st wife not stated
Sol mar June 1803 Mary Hall she was an pensioner in 1853 while in 
in Jackson Co.
in Gwinnett Co. Ga. Sol's had a son William who refers to a
brother (name not stated) no fur fam data

Respectfully,
.
Commissioner.
Page 43

January 12, 1911.
Hon. Gordon Lee,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Lee;
In response to your letter dated the 11"" instant and
received this day, I have the honor to advise you that the Revolutionary 
War record of this Bureau fails to show an Edward Johnson pensioned on
July 1, 1833 in Gwinnett County, Georgia, but it does show that one
Edward Jackson was pensioned while a resident of said County. His pen-
sion Certificate was issued July 31, 1833, and mailed to William Maltbie,
at Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
Page 44

June 11, 1931
Hon. M. C. Tarver       Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Member of Congress   MCS: MLB
Dalton, Georgia

My dear Mr. Tarver:

Reference is made to your letter of June 4, requesting
the record of the Revolutionary War soldier, Edward Jackson.
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 2119, that Edward Jackson
was born February 14, 1755, in Craven County (which was later
Chesterfield District), South Carolina.
While a resident of that district he enlisted in 1775 and
served at various times until the close of the Revolution.
amounting to about two years in all, as private in Captains
Griffeth's and Lloyd's companies in Colonel Benton's South Carolina regiment. He was in the battle of Coosahatchie.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October
5, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Gwinnett County,
Georgia.
He died February 22, 1845, in Walker County, Georgia.
While a resident of Jackson County, Georgia, soldier
married in June, 1803, in that county, Mary Hall. He had been
previously married, but the date of marriage and name of wife
are not shown.
On account of the Revolutionary War services of Edward
Jackson, his wife, Mary, was allowed pension on her application
executed March 5, 1853, at which time she was aged about
eighty-four years and a resident of Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Page 45

In 1853 William Jackson, son of the soldier, was sixty-three
years of age and a resident of De Kalb County, Georgia. William
Jackson referred to his brother but did not give his name.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
Page 46

July 15, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
EDWARD JACKSON
W. 2119
BA-J/MHF:MLE

Mr. David J. D. Myers
Georgian Hotel
Athens, Georgia

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you express your
desire for cooperation in the matter of preservation of the
Revolutionary War pension documents. You state that typewritten
or handwritten copies will serve your purpose instead of photo-
static copies of the papers on file in the claims for pension of
Edward and Mary Jackson, W. 119.
Believing that the style of the handwriting and other features,
as shown in exact copies of the old documents, will prove to be of
more value to you, the photostatic copies are being prepared under
special supervision in this case and will be mailed to you upon
receipt of $4.50, remitted as directed in letter dated July 6, 1938.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
Page 47

July 6, 1938

****************

EDWARD JACKSON
W. 2119
BA-J/AWFMLB

Mr. David J. D. Myers
Georgian Hotel
Athens, Georgia

Dea Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request photo-
static copies of the papers on file in the claims for pension of
Edward and Mary Jackson, under File No. W. 2119, based upon his
service in the Revolutionary War.
The cost of photostatic copies is twenty-five cents a page.
The number of pages to be copied is eighteen. Remittance should be
made by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the
United States, and mailed to the Veterans Administration, Arlington
Building, Washington, D. C.
It may be stated that the papers in these claims for pension
are very old and frail indeed, therefore, the preparation of
photostatic copies is necessarily injurious to them. It is always
gratifying when abstracts, like the one furnished you, are sufficient
for research workers, as every effort is made for the preservation
of these old documents.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
Page 48

August 15, 1938
*****************
EDWARD JACKSON
W. 2119
BA-J/AHP: 11
Mr. David J. D. Myers
Georgian Hotel
Athens, Georgia
Dear Sir:
You are furnished herewith, as requested, photostatic copies
of eighteen pages of the original thereof, in the Revolutionary 
War claims for pension on file under W. 2119, based upon service
of Edward Jackson in that war.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
Page 49

[In pencil, and written perpendicular across typewritten printing on paper]
List of 18 pp copied for Mr. David Myers
Soldier's ded. dated Oct 5, 1832=3pp.ending with affids. of Mitchell Bennett & Elisha Winn
Sol's. ded_dated Apr. 15, 1833=3pp
" Ctf. Jacket=1p
(note: Affid. of Wm Maltbie C of G.
dated Oct. 5, 1832, omitted)
wid's appl. Mch. 5, 1853, with appids. of Jos. B. Mills & Warren W. Kicker
& reverse side of that sheet=4pp.
near. record by John G. Pittman=1p
Mary Hall's affid_Apr. 2, 1853=2pp(both sides of sheet)
Wm. Jackson's affid. Apr. 8, 1853=2pp
Letter from Pen Off. to Francis Burt 3" and = 1p (dated June 30, 1853)
wid. ctf jacket=1p

[Typed portion]
NO. 432
REV. & 1812 WARS SECTION
August 8, 8
War & Navy Branch 970
Edward Jackson, claim for pension, File No.W.2119
Rev. War Actual 1 of each page
$4.50
18 pages
Kindly leave margin of
1½ inches at top of each page and
return papers in folder with
corresponding names and number.
The word "omits" written in pencil
on those pages which are not to
be copied.
Chief, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Page 50

[In pencil, and written perpendicular across typewritten printing on paper]
List of 18 pp copied for Mr. David Myers
Soldier's ded. dated Oct 5, 1832=3pp.ending with affids. of Mitchell Bennett & Elisha Winn
Sol's. ded_dated Apr. 15, 1833=3pp
" Ctf. Jacket=1p
(note: Affid. of Wm Maltbie C of G.
dated Oct. 5, 1832, omitted)
wid's appl. Mch. 5, 1853, with appids. of Jos. B. Mills & Warren W. Kicker
& reverse side of that sheet=4pp.
near. record by John G. Pittman=1p
Mary Hall's affid_Apr. 2, 1853=2pp(both sides of sheet)
Wm. Jackson's affid. Apr. 8, 1853=2pp
Letter from Pen Off. to Francis Burt 3" and = 1p (dated June 30, 1853)
wid. ctf jacket=1p

[Typed portion]
NO. 432
REV. & 1812 WARS SECTION
August 8, 8
War & Navy Branch 970
Edward Jackson, claim for pension, File No.W.2119
Rev. War Actual 1 of each page
$4.50
18 pages
Kindly leave margin of
1½ inches at top of each page and
return papers in folder with
corresponding names and number.
The word "omits" written in pencil
on those pages which are not to
be copied.
Chief, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section