Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27599, for Nimrod Jester, North Carolina
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Jester, Nimrod
W. 27599
May
B.L. Wt 31.783-160-55
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7332
Now of the Revolution,
[illegible]
Mary Jester
NC
Widow of Nimrod Jester
Rank Private
Company Capt. [illegible]
Regiment N.C. Troops
Rate per month $8
Commencing 7 April 1873
Certificate dated 28 April 1873
And sent May 3rd 1873
Book H page 225
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22.237
[illegible]
Private Jester
In the state of [illegible]
Who was a private in the [illegible] commanded by Captain [illegible] of the [illegible] commanded by in the [illegible] line for 17 months private 
Unsolved on the roll of [illegible] at the rate of 36 dollars and 66 cents
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Oct 1835 and sent to David [illegible] 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 141.65
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 2833
$169.98
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [illegible]
Book 6 vol 7 Page 117
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[illegible]
143.478
Act Mar. 0/53
May 22/53
Mary Jester widow of Nimrod Jester Priv
Revolutionary War
Private 
Rev War 
[illegible] Pension
W. 16 [illegible] June 26/56
Dodge 
Vol 2. Page 40
[illegible]
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8576
Nimrod Jester
Indiana.
[illegible] 1780 private 
17 months
$56.66/100
113.32
2833
$141.65
Clk
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Nimrod Jester
In open court 
70 years
Sometime in April thinks 12th 13th he [illegible] as a [illegible]
[illegible] to and of the year of 1780
1781- Oct
March 7. 1882
Months 3
Days 6 weeks
Months about 2
Months about 1
Months 12
As a private
Militia 
Genl. Rutherford 
Capt John McDory
Lieut Hugh Fortes 
Capt John Gillespie 
Lieut George Parks
Capt Philips
Capt S. Martin
Lieut D. Martin 
Capt Charles Gordon 
Battle of Camden
Guildford Co. No. Carolina 
By traditionary evidence & by living witness
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State of Indiana
Wayne County
We Joseph Parkington a clergyman residing within said County of Wayne and Thomas Cranor residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nimrod Jester who has [illegible] and sworn to the alive Declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age the 15th day of October [illegible] should we so [illegible] live that he is [illegible] and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we [illegible].
Sworn to subscribed in [illegible] the day and year above written
[illegible] 
Thomas [illegible]
And [illegible] here comes into a few Court [illegible] and being duly sworn on his declares as follows “I am acquainted with the said Nimrod Jester and served with him in the same [illegible] a three month tour in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War under the command of Captain John McDory Lieutenant Hugh Fortes. We marched together and were in the Battle of [illebiele] at Gates defeat and Returned home together. I know of said Jester [illegible] serving in the war as her Jester was after gone in the service. But the precise length of said Jester service I cannot recollect. I know that said Jester was at home on furlough at the time I [illegible] was married and [illegible] of his Returning to the army again. Said JEster is and always has been a man of good moral character and the said court do hereby declare [illegible] from the testimony of the said Jesse Cook before named and from an examination into the moral character of the said applicant and of the said Jesse Cook from [illegible] and from the certificates and
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Of the said applicant and of the said Jesse Cook from disinterested [illegible] and from the certificates and affidavits filed with said Declaration that the above named Nimrod Jester was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states in his Declaration and the Court further certifies that  it appeared to them that Joseph Parkington who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Wayne and that Thomas Cranor who has signed the same is a resident of the same county and that John [illegible] and Samuel Hannah who has subscribed and sworn to the affidavit accompanying said Declaration are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I Samuel Hannah Clerk of the Wayne
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8316
Nimrod Jester
Revolutionary papers
Field August 29th 
1832
Saml Hannah Clk
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The state of Indiana
Wayne County
Be it remembered that on the 29th day of August 1832 their personally came into open Court the same being the ninth judicial day of the Wayne Circuit Court of the [illegible] of August 1832 the same being a Court of Record [illegible] criminal lawman [illegible] Nimrod Jester of  the lawful age of seventy years the 15th day of October [illegible] to obtain the lawful of the Revolution Law of the United States of the 7th day of June 1832 who being first duly sworn upon his oath the following Declaration in order to obtain the lawful of said pension [illegible]. “[illegible] the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as [illegible] stated [illegible] sometimes in April I think the 12th or 13th day 1780. I entered the service as a volunteer [illegible] being a citizen of Guilford County North Carolina in a militia Company commanded by Captain John McDay, Lieutenant Hugh Forbes, [illegible] John [illegible] for the term of three months which [illegible] served out, we rendezvoused at Guilford Court house and marched from there to [illegible] South Carolina and [illegible] in North Carolina we were joined by three other companies of militia of something upwards of fifty privates each and the command of the whole was assumed by Gel Rutherford of the North Carolina Militia at the [illegible] hills we were joined by General Horatio Gates with nine thousand now of the regular service I was at the Battle of Cambden
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In the left [illegible] of the army near the artillery and was commanded during the engagement by a regular Col. by the name Adams his given name I do not recollect we were defeated and dispersed and such of us as remained returned home [illegible] I received no discharge for my service. The next tour of service I performed was a six weeks tour, as a volunteer in the North Carolina Militia (I then still resided in the County of Guilford North Carolina) [illegible] commanded by [illegible], Captain John Gillespie Lieutenant George Parks. We marched from there towards the [illegible] Hills to [illegible] the Torrys with whom we had several skirmishes and took a number of them prisoner. The names of three of them still recollect John [illegible], David Edwardsm and James [illegible] at the end of the time we turned home and were disbanded by the Col. without any discharges. In the month of October or November 1781 the day I cannot recollect I then began a visit in Suny County North Carolina and there being a [illegible] for men I returned as a volunteer for a three months tour in the North Carolina Militia in a company commanded by Captain Salathiel Martin, Lieutenant Danel Martin, ([illegible]), we marched from there about twenty five miles in the direction of the [illegible] when we received the news of the battle there when we were halted and lay in [illegible] for some time at the [illegible] of about a month from the time I [illegible] there being no further need of us in that [illegible] we were disbanded without any discharges. On the first day of March 1782 [illegible] for a term of twelve months I then being at Salisbury in Rowan County North Carolina in the state region of the North Carolina State Troops, [illegible] of ten companies of fifty privates each. I served in the company commanded by Captain Charles Jordan, Lieutenants names I
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The next tour of service I performed was a three months tour, I then resided in Guilford County North Carolina with the latter part of the year 1780 the day or month I cannot now recollect. I volunteered in a militia company commanded by a Captain Philips of [illegible] County North Carolina whose given name I have forgotten Lieutenant John James to the best of my recollection [illegible] forgotten. This company was composed of  forty privates and was [illegible] in an adjoining county to the one in which I lived which accounts for my want of recollections of the names of the officers. I not being acquainted with them before nor since. We were marched from thence to the shallow fords of the Yadkin river and from thence to Salisbury North Carolina to suppress the Tories that were embodying on the line [illegible] North & South Carolina from Salisbury we marched Southwards towards the line [illegible] North & south Carolina from there towards the Big Pee DEE from there we returned to Salisbury and were stationed there around a month and at the end of about two months from the time I volunteered we were disbanded without any discharges. During this tour we were passed by Col. Lee and Col. Washington with their troops of light horse.
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I do not recollect Ensign John Loller the Regiment was commanded by Genl. Rutherford, Col. [illegible] and Major Joel Lewis who was a militia Col but only ranked as a major in the army. We were marched from thence to the [illegible[ hills, from thence to the held of the Black [illegible] river in from thence South Carolina, from thence to [illegible] a creek Rowan by the name of [illegible] Creek, and were near two months between the two latter stages [illegible] the Tories during which time I frequently saw Genl. Marion from thence we marched to Belluses Bridge where we had an engagement with about five hundred tories and British and were victorious. We killed about eighty of [illegible] and took about one hundred prisoners primarily Tories. During the engagement I received a [illegible] wound in the left from a buck shot which passed through the same [illegible] and within about an inch and a half from where it entered [illegible], which [illegible] I now carry, from thence we proceeded [illegible] and [illegible] about the same county until we reached Hillsborough in Orange County North Carolina where I obtained a furlong [illegible] months and on the first day of March 1783 I received a written discharge from the service signed by James Gilleslie than a Colonel commandant which discharge I [illegible] with about a year ago, when it was accidentally lost or mislaid I now have no documentary evidence of any part of my service and I know of but one surviving [illegible] by whom I can prove any part of my service. My name is not on the pension roll of any state in the Union and I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension of [illegible] the present. 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day & year above named 
Sam Hannah CHBEL
Nimrod Jester
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I do not recollect Ensign John Loller the Regiment was commanded by Genl. Rutherford, Col. [illegible] and Major Joel Lewis who was a militia Col but only ranked as a major in the army. We were marched from thence to the [illegible[ hills, from thence to the held of the Black [illegible] river in from thence South Carolina, from thence to [illegible] a creek Rowan by the name of [illegible] Creek, and were near two months between the two latter stages [illegible] the Tories during which time I frequently saw Genl. Marion from thence we marched to Belluses Bridge where we had an engagement with about five hundred tories and British and were victorious. We killed about eighty of [illegible] and took about one hundred prisoners primarily Tories. During the engagement I received a [illegible] wound in the left from a buck shot which passed through the same [illegible] and within about an inch and a half from where it entered [illegible], which [illegible] I now carry, from thence we proceeded [illegible] and [illegible] about the same county until we reached Hillsborough in Orange County North Carolina where I obtained a furlong [illegible] months and on the first day of March 1783 I received a written discharge from the service signed by James Gilleslie than a Colonel commandant which discharge I [illegible] with about a year ago, when it was accidentally lost or mislaid I now have no documentary evidence of any part of my service and I know of but one surviving [illegible] by whom I can prove any part of my service. My name is not on the pension roll of any state in the Union and I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension of [illegible] the present. 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day & year above named 
Sam Hannah CHBEL
Nimrod Jester
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[illegible]
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[illegible]
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143, 478
Claim for Bounty
Land of Mary Jester
Widow of Nimrod Jester, deceased, for services in the Revolutionary War
Isacc U. [illegible]
[illegible
Attorney
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State of Georgia 
County of Wayne
On this seventeenth day of May, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the county, and state aforesaid, Mary Jester, aged fifty-eight years, a resident of Wayne County, in the State of Indiana, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Nimrod Jester, deceased who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War, that he entered the service probably in Guilford county, North Carolina, and continued in actual service in said war in that state & in South Carolina and Georgia for the term of four years; but the names of the officers under whom he served she does not now remember; that he was honourably discharged at the expiration of said term of service, but that his discharge is not now in her possession, it having been used in procuring the pension for services aforesaid, which he received from the United States for more than twenty-years before and up to the time of his death, and to the [illegible] on file if the pension Office or another [illegible] made to procure said pensions; she refers as special proof of his services as aforesaid
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She further states that she was married to the said Nimrod Jester in Wayne County, Indiana, on this day of April, 1841, by one Andrew Meredith, a Justice of the Peace, and that her [illegible] before her said marriage was Mary Bishop, that her said husband died at Wayne County Indiana aforesaid on the 8th day day of October, 1854, and that she is now a widow, & that [illegible] her said husband ever before applied for [illegible] County [illegible]. She [illegible] this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the county land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855.
[illegible] Smith and John [illegible] of Wayne County and state of Indiana, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Jester in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statement of the applicant the she is the identical person she represents herself to be. And we do further declare that we well know the said Nimrod and Mary Jester during the life
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of the said Nimrod & that said parties were known and reputed to be husband & wife and to live & cohabit together as such. And the said [illegible] Smith declares that she well knows of the decease of said Nimrod Jester, and that she saw the body of the said Nimrod after his decease. 
[illegible] Smith
John [illegible] 
The foregoing declaration & applicant were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written; and  I certify that I know the [illegible] to be [illegible] persons; that the claimant is the person she represents [illegible] to be, & that I have [illegible] in this claim. 
State of Indiana Wayne County, [illegible] of Justice
I [illegible] Scall Clerk of the Wayne [illegible[ hereby certify that the above named Jake Stevens is [illegible] acting Justice of the peace in and for said county of Wayne duly elected [illegible] that his [illegible] date October 14 1854 and expires October 14 1858, and that his signature above written is genuine.
[illegible] my name and the Seal of said Court the 14 day of May 1853
[illegible]
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State of Indiana Wayne County S.S.
Be it remembered that on the 25th day of March 1841 the Clerk of Wayne Circuit Court issued a license to any person legally authorized to [illegible] in said county to join in marriage Nimrod Jester and Mary Bishop and afterward [illegible] on the 29th day of March 1841 the following return was made to the Clerks Office to wit:
State of Indian Wayne County S.S.
I Andrew Meridith a justice of the peace in and for said COunty, certify that Nimrod Jester and Mary Bishop were legally joined in marriage by me on the 26th day of March 1841.
Given under my hand and seal March 28th 1841.
Andrew Meredith (Seal)
Justice of the Peace
Attest
John [illegible] Clerk

State of Indiana Wayne County S.S.
I W.M. Dudly Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court of said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Original [illegible] and Returns as [illegible] in my office. 
Given my name and Seal of said Court this 4th day of April 1873
W.M. Dudly Clerk
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Cern 7.332
Mary Jester Widow of Nimrod Jester P.Caw
[illegible] Co. No Carolina 1
Died at Williamsbury 
Wayne [illegible] Oct. 8 1854
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Claim of Mary Jester, widow of Nimrod Jester, a Revolutionary Soldier and pensions, for Bounty Loud under the act of March 5 1855
Additional Evidence 
Issac [illegible] Julian, Attorney, Courtsville Indiana
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State of Indiana, Wayne County S.S.
Given personally before me, the subscribed, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Amuel Johnson Esq, a resident of the [illegible] who, being [illegible] duly appeared declares, that he well knew Nimrod Jester late of said county, deceased, and knows him to have been for many years in receipt of a pension from the United States for his service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War - said affiant knowing himself, as Justice of the Peace on several occasions made out the papers upon which said Jester drew his pension from the [illegible] Department knowing that business in charge, then located in Madison, Indiana. Said affiant further states that he [illegible] a copy of the Original certificate upon which said Jester drew his pension, of which he certifies hereby the following to be a true copy to wit:
“War Department 
“Revolutionary Claim
“I certify that in [illegible[ with the law of the United States of the [illegible] Justice 1932, Nimrod Jester of the State of Indiana, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive fifty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per [illegible] his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable service annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September [illegible] in every year. 
“[illegible] at the way office of the United States, this 18th day of October
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Seal
One thousand eight hundred and thirty three
“[illegible] and countersigned 
“[illegible]
“Acting Commissioner of Pensions.’
“[illeible]
“Secrtary of War
Said affiant further states that he well knows Mary Jester who made application No. 143,478, for [illegible] under the act of Congress 3d March, 1855, and that he knows her to be the widow of said Nimrod Jester, deceased.
Samuel Johnson
Subscribed and affirmed to before me, this 17th day of April 1856; and I certify that I know the affiant to be a reliable person.
[illegible] my hand and seal
Jesse Stevens Justice (Seal)
State of Indiana, Wayne County, S.S.
Came personally before me the subscribed, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Thomas Wilson, Esq, a resident of the [illegible] who being duly appeared, according to law, declares that he well knows Nimrod Jester, late of Wayne County Indiana, deceased, and knows him to have been since the year 1844, if not longer, in receipt of a pension from the United States for his services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution-said affiant having himself as Justice of the peace, on several occasions made out the papers upon which said Hester drew his
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Pensions from the [illegible] department, then located at Madison, Indiana said affiant further stats that he has often seen the Original certificate of said JEsterm and that he is confident that that which [illegible] to be a copy of the same embodied in the accompanying affidavit of Samuel Johnson Esq, is a true copy of said Certificate.
Thomas Wilson 
Subscribed and applied to before me this 18th day of April, 1856, and I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person. [illegible] my hand and seal.
Jesse Stevens Justice (Seal)


State of Indiana
Wayne County S.S.
I Andrew [illegible] Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court do hereby certify that [illegible] an exam of the records in this office [illegible] that on the 25th day of March 1844 a license was issued from this office [illegible] any person authorized to solemnize marriage to join in marriage Nimrod Jester and Mary Bishop and that afterwards [illegible] on the 29th day of March 1844 the following return thereof was made to wit. I [illegible] Meredith a Justice of the Peace and in and for said County Court that Nimrod Jester and Mary Bishop were legally joined in marriage by me on the 26th day of March AD 1844. Which license and [illegible] remain on file in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto [illegible] and the Seal of the said Court at Centreville this 18th day of April A.D. 1856
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Nimrod Jester’s 
[illegible] application 
For a Pension
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The state of Indiana 
Wayne County 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for said county of Wayne Nimrod Jester an applicant for a pension under the pension Law of the United States of  9th June 1832 a resident of said COunty who being duly sworn on his oath deposes and says that  reason of old age and the great lapse of time 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 to [illegible] “I served as a private in the North Carolina Militia for three months commencing I think of the 12th or 13th day of April 1780 under Captain John McDow Lieutenant Hugh Forbes [illegible] John Findley’’ 2nd I served six weeks as a private in the North Carolina Militia commencing in the months of September 1780 under Captain John [illegible], Lieutenant George Parks [illegible] Findley Shay the company aforesaid was also Commanded by Col. Daniel Gillespie 3rd’’I served at least two months as a private in the North Carolina Militia commencing sometimes in the later part of the year 1780 in a company commanded by one Captain Philips of [illegible] county an adjoining county to the one in which I then resided Lieutenant [illegible] James to the best of my ability [illegible] name I also have forgotten 4th I served at least a month as a private in the North Carolina Militia under Captain Salathiel Martin Lieutenant Daniel Martin [illegible] John [illegible] to the best of my recollection and believe’’5th I served as a private on year in the North Carolina state troops under Captain Charles Gordon Lieutenant name I do not recollect [illegible] John Loller the Regiment was commanded by General Rutherford Col Armstrong and Major Joel [illegible] of the North Carolina State Line, 6th’’ I also served three months as a private volunteer militia man in Rowan County North Carolina in guarding prisoners that were taken by one Col. Campbell and stationed at Salisbury in said county of Rowan to the number of three hundred or there abouts during said last mentioned terms I served Major Armstrong a regular officer to the best of my recollection. This last
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Term of service is not embraced in my original application for a pensions as it was not thought of by me when my application was drawn up and if I shall be thought by the Defendant for investigation Pensions Claims to require any further authorization to [illegible] for me to claim that service rather than [illegible] should be any further delay on that account I do hereby waive claiming any pension for said last named service and in that [illegible] only claim a pension for the residence of my service as a soldier of the Revolution here before stated. But otherwise I claim a pension for the whole of my service which amount to the best of my recollection including said last named three months services to twenty two months and two weeks and [illegible] said last name three months service to Nineteen months and two weeks and I do further state that aid terms of service were all in the service of the United States in the Militia and State Troops of North Carolina as herein before stated and this applicant is made in aid and explanation of any original application for a pension.
Nimrod Jester
Sworn to and subscribed Before me this 5th day of [illegible] AD 1833
[illegible] Dunham [illegible]
The state of Indiana
Wayne County
I Samuel Hannah clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court certify that William M. Dunham Esqr. by whom the foregoing Oath appears to have been administered to Nimrod Jester was at the time of a [illegible] the same enacting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Wayne [illegible] and sworn into office according to law and fully authorized and [illegible] by Law to administer Oaths and that full faith and credits are due all his official acts as such. 
In testimony where of I hereunto sel my hand and seal of Office this 5th day Of June A.D. 1833
Samuel Hannah A.D.
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Nimrod Jester
Revolutionary Papers
Affidavits of John S. [illegible] & Sam. [illegible]
Filed 29th August 1832
Sam [illegible] CIR
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The state of Indiana
Wayne County
Be it remembered that on the 29th day of August 1839 the same being the ninth judicial day of the Wayne Circuit Court (the same being as Court of Records) of the terms of August 1832 John S. Norman of [illegible] age an attorney of said Court who being duly sworn states that sometime in the month of August 1831 Nimrod Jester now an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 confided to this affiant a written discharge [illegible] to be from under the hand and signed with the name of James Gillespie Col [illegible] certifying that the said Nimrod Jester had served out a term of one year )in the Revolutionary War) and was thereby duly discharged which discharged this affiants believes was genuine and that this affiants filed the said Discharge in said Court at the August Term 1831 for the [illegible] of being [illegible] to said Court to [illegible] said Court to certify to [illegible] said Jester to obtain a pension. That this affiant saw said discharge shortly after the adjournments of said Court and that said discharge is now lost or mislaid and cannot be produced and further says not sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
John S. Newman
Sam Hannah Clr
At the same time and place came Samuel Hannah Clerk of said Court who being duly sworn says that he saw the written discharged named in the time it was confided to here as therein stated and the same was lost as he states and that this affidavit believes said discharge was genuine as
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Stated in said affiant of said [illegible].
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day & year above written. 
Sam Hannah 
Sam Hannah Clr

Indiana [illegible]
Wayne County
I Samuel Hannah Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court certify that the foregoing affidavits were duly subscribed and sworn to at the time and in the County therein named. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto sel my hand and seal of office this 7th day of September A.D. 1832
Sam Hannah C.W. C.L.
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Arrears under [illegible]
7332
Widow of Nimrod Jester
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State of Indiana
Wayne County
On this 25th day of April 1874 personally assumed [illegible] Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court Mary Jester aged 81 years who being duly sworn on oath says that she is [illegible] identical Mary Jester whose name is on [illegible] Pension Roll at the rate of [illegible] certificate is dated April 13th 1873 [illegible] 7332 and signed by [illegible] Secretary of the [illegible]. 
That in the year 1855 or 1856 Nimrod Jester’s widow the said Mary Jester made application for Bounty Land, and [illegible] a [illegible] shortly after, through George W. Jacobb Julius attorneys, and at the [illegible] time made what she supposed was an application for Pension, and that [illegible] her said attorney informed her that her claim was filed and [illegible] and [illegible] to allowed in case of  [illegible]; but that she became discouraged and [illegible] that she was [illegible] to the same; until recently, [illegible] was informed of her right and applied again for her pension, and the same was granted her [illegible] only from April 7th 1873 where as it should as she believes be dated from the date of the death of her husband Nimrod Jester October 8th 1854 who was on the Pension Roll as a Revolutionary soldier; that she is in needy circumstances and [illegible] actually ignorant of her [illegible], and of such [illegible] and is [illegible] to be a [illegible] upon her friends that the proof of her marriage to said Nimrod Jester was made in
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Her original applications and the subsequent [illegible] as all [illegible] proof necessary to [illegible] her claim. She makes the application to [illegible] the [illegible] of existing law, and for [illegible] of pension due her [illegible] she believes October 8th 1854 to April 7th 1873. Her Post Office [illegible] Wayne County Indiana and she makes all communication addressed to her in case of W.W. Dudley Richmond Indiana.
Mary Jester
Her mark

William [illegible] Duke 
Eliza Duke
[illegible] personally appeared [illegible] before me William A Duke and Eliza Duke who being duly sworn says has been an acquaintance with Mary the widow of Nimrod Jester dead she is [illegible] hereby to be and has not [illegible] since his death [illegible] Nimrod Jester, that she resides in Wayne County Indiana and that [illegible] resides in Wayne County Indiana.
William Duke
Eliza Duke
Subscribed [illegible] before me this 25th day of April 1874 and I certify that the [illegible] of the above affidavit [illegible] and fully made known to the affiants before signature, and that I have [illegible] included [illegible] in the [illegible] of the claim for [illegible] of Pension.
[illegible] my name and the Seal of the Wayne Circuit County Court at Richmond Indiana this 26th day of April 1874
W.W. Dudley Clerk W.C.C.
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2a Sec. Act Feb 3. 1853
2 July 27. 1868
Original 
The Revolution 
Mary JEster
Nimrod JEster private Capt McDanes Co North Carolina 
[illegible] War of the Revolution 
Resident of Wayne County, and state of Indiana 
Williams, Wayne Co. Indiana 
April 7 1873
The soldier was pensioned at [illegible] 56.66 per year
October 18. 1833 [illegible] Act of June 7. 1852. [illegible]
March 4 1831
Paid to March 4. 1854, as shown by the [illegible] Auditors Reports
Alleged October 8 1854
[illegible]
Married March 26 1841
Shown by Copy of Public Record
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Centreville, Indiana, May 17 1855
Sir:
Herewith enclosed I send you the application for Bounty Land of Mary Jester. You will see that the usual form is not [illegible] followed in this case, as the [illegible] required were not immediately accessible, & especially as the husband of the applicant-Nimrod Jester-up to the time of his death, & for more than twenty years before, was the recipient of a pension for his services in the war of the Revolution, and hence it was only deemed necessary to refer you to the [illegible] upon which said pension was allowed him. If, however, the application is naturally defective, please advise me of the fact as soon as practicable.
Very respectfully, 
Isaac W. Juliana
[illegible]
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Centreville, Indiana
April 18, 1856
Sir:
Some weeks since, I received a notification that the application of Mary Jester, widow of Nimrod Jester, dead, No. 143,478, had been suspended, on the grounds, 1st, of the absence of record evidence of her marriage with said Jester and 2nd, that his service does not appear on record in your office. 
The first objection (and I trust the second also) you will find [illegible] by the additional proof herewith enclosed, which I respectfully ask your attention, as connected with that accompanying the original application. The said Nimrod Jester was [illegible] then twenty years, and up to his death, in [illegible] of a pension from the U.S. for his service in the Revolutionary War. The accompanying affidavits, a certified copy of his original certificate from the War Department, I should think [illegible] to be satisfying, if not conclusive evidence on that point. If, however, you still require proof from the [illegible], of N.C., will you please advise me of the fact at [illegible]. 
[illegible] the justice before whom the unclosed affidavits were taken is the same one before whom the original application was [illegible], upon which his official character is duly [illegible] and to which you are [illegible].
See over
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Such cases I have heretofore [illegible] the practice of your office to be, not to require an additional other authentication - but if you now require it, please return the papers and another certificate will be added.
Very respectfully,
Isaac W. Juliana 
[illegible]
Court of Pension
Washington, D.C.
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War of Revolution
Mary Jester
Widow of Nimrod Jester 
[illegible]
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[illegible]
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143,478
[illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City, D.C.
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143478
Nimrod Jester [illegible] 1833
Revolutionary [illegible]
[illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City,
Dict. of Columbia
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31.783
[illegible]
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Golden F. Reynolds
Jan 22. 1925
Honorable Washington Gardner
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:
[illegible] like the military records of
George Stevenson Rev. soldier who served under Gen. George Washington 
Alraham Warlatt Rev. soldier who was pensioned April 28 1818 who died July 23 1828
Nimrod Jester Rev. soldier, private in N. Carolina militia [illegible] Oct. 18 1833
Adam Loy Rev. soldier who fought under mad Anthony Wayne
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Was with Wayne [illegible] down the Ohio River.
Yours Respectfully
Golden F. Reynolds
Historian
D.A.A.
(Mrs. Roy E.) 
209 Liudeu Ave.
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27.599
Mary JEster
Wid of Nimrod Jester
Priv. Capt McDanes Co.
N.C. Troops
3d [illegible] 1853
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[illegible
Feb 28/76
Letter to [illegible]
1908 Jan 8. Heist. To Hon.J.AM. Aclair.
1913 Jan 20. Lo Jr [illegible]
1925 - Feb 18 [illegible]
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[illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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Washington,
Nov. 30, 1862
Dear Sir,
Nimrod Jester of Wayne County Indiana drew a revolutionary pension of $56.66 [illegible] till his death in 1854. His widow desires the amount due her as widow up to this time. I [illegible] no further proof [illegible] will be necessary except the fact of her being his widow. Please [illegible].
[illegible] respectfully 
[illegible] Juliana 
Comm of Pensions
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[illegible]
[illegible] of business I left home without attending to [illegible] and [illegible]. As [illegible].
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Pension Office
December 6th 1862
Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 30th [illegible]. I have to inform you, that if the widow of Nimrod Jester, a pensioner on the roll of the state of Indiana, under the act of 7th June 1832, is still living, she will be entitled to a pension under the Act of 3rd February 1853. On expecting a declaration, and by proving her marriage, identity, & [illegible], in the manner required by the enclosed printed regulations.
I have the honor to be, 
Very Respectfully
Your obedient Servt.
[illegible]
Commissioner 
Hon. George W. Juliana 
House of Representatives
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April 19, 1873
Sir;
In reply to your letter of the 18th inst. you are informed that the pensions of Nimrod JEster was last paid to March 4, 1854, to John E. [illegible] attorney in fact, at Madison Indiana.
Very respectfully,
[illegible] auditor 
[illegible] of Pension
[illegible] Rev. War
[illegible]
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Williamsburg [illegible] Feb 214 76
Mr B Fr Witt [illegible]
Peer sir by the request of Mrs Mary Jester I write to [illegible] if you received their pension certificate and the Clerk you sent to be executed and returned to you she is in great need of [illegible] money as she drew non the last quarter and the next payment will soon be here it seems nothing will satisfy her but to hear from you please answer soon [illegible].
Yours Truly
Thomas, [illegible], Fagan 
Williamsburg Wayne Co [illegible]
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War of the Revolution
For arrears 
7332 Rolls at [illegible]
Nimrod Jester
N.C. Troops
Williamsburg Indiana
Mary Jester - Widow
B.N. Writ 
[illegible[ filed Oct 20 1875
Very respectfully 
B.N. Writ 
Atty