Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6415, John Wadkins, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Wadkins, John
Watkins
Lynthia
NUMBER
W. 6415
B.L. Wt. 15154-160-55.
CONTENTS
This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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33.015
Georgia
John Wadkins  of [Blank] in the State of [Blank] who was a Private [in the Revolution], to commence on the 6th day of March 1831 & ending 19th Feb. 1841.
Certificate of Pension issued 1st March 1841 and sent to Hon J. Mc P. Berrier, US Senate.
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Recorded by R. McRae, Clerk
Book H, Vol 6 Page 17
{Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832.}
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122.681
Act March 3/55
May 7, 1855
Cynthia Wadkins, widow of
John Watkins, Private
Capt. Baker, N. Carolina Line
War of Revolution
Pensioned

Philip Martin
Clarksville
Georgia
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6.226
Georgia
Cynthia Watkins, widow of John Watkins, who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20" day of March 1848 and sent to A. H. Markland.
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 236 Vol. 3
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State of Georgia
Habersham County
Personally came this day before me, Andrew Guiley, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, James Anderson and after being first duly sworn saith on oath that he has been acquainted in the family of John Watkins and Cynthia Watkins his wife from early youth and has often seen the within record and knows it to be their family register and that he is now fifty one years old, he further says that he always understood from the said John Watkins that he was raised an orphan boy by his aunt Rachel Watkins, he also further says that the said John Watkins was always regarded and respected as a soldier and patriot of the Revolution.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of November 1850.
Andrew Gailey, Justice of the Peace
James Anderson
I hereby certify that the veracity of the above named deponent is such as may be relied on for the truth and honesty.
Andrew Gailey, Justice of the Peace
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Nancy Watkins was born April the 3d 1792 
Rebacah Watkins was born January the 28th 1794
Job Watkins was born May the 15th 1796
Dorcas Watkins was born the 29th January 1798
Samuel Watkins was born the 21st February 1800
Johnathan Watkins was born the 16th day of July 1803
Sally Watkins was born the 27th May 1806
David Grissom Watkins was born the 4th day of April 1809 
[Note: There is two more children in this family record whose names and birthdates are too illegible to read.]
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Georgia
Habersham County
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, James Reynolds, and inhabitant of said County, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is sixty four years of age, that he was raised in the State of South Carolina; that in early childhood he became acquainted with the family of the late John Wadkins who then lived within three or four miles of the house of deponent's father; that he has continued so acquainted from thence to the present time, both while the said Watkins lived in the State of South Carolina and after his the said Wadkins) removal to the state of Georgia, Habersham County, in which County deponent himself has resided more than twenty years; that in his early childhood he frequently associated with the children of the said Wadkins, and has ever since known the two eldest of them named Nancy and Rebecca, that the said Nancy deponent knows to be between fifty nine and sixty years of age, and the said Rebecca to be about eighteen months or two years younger that the said Nancy and Rebecca were reared by and always known as the children of the said John Watkins and Cynthia his wife.
Deponent further says that he has often heard the said John Wadkins speak of his services in the Revolutionary war as a soldier under Captain Baker, from North Carolina; that he has heard the said Wadkins say that he fought in the American army in the battle of Guildford and the Cowpens, and was for some time employed in said army as that the said Wadkins died in said County of Habersham in February eighteen hundred and forty one; that the said John Wadkins and Cynthia Wadkin, who is now applying for a pension as his widow, always appeared in society and were recognized by each other and by the community in which they lived, as husband and wife.
James D Reynolds
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of July 1857.
James Prince, Justice of the Peace
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Georgia
Habersham County
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, James R. Bright and inhabitant of said County, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is fifty years of age; that he was raised in the State of South Carolina and there in his early childhood became acquainted with the family of the late John Wadkins and Cynthia Wadkins then his wife and now his widow, who then hind within three miles of deponent; that his acquaintance with the said family has continued up to the present time; that to the best of his knowledge and belief Nancy the eldest child of the said John and Cynthia is nine or ten years older than deponent.
James R. Bright
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of July 1851.
James Prince, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above deponents James Reynolds and James R. Bright are men of veracity and truth, and may be relied on
James Prince, Justice of the Peace

State of Georgia
Habersham County 
I, Philip Martin, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in said County, certify that James Prince is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission bears date on the 11th day of March 1851 and will expire on the first day of January 1853 and that his signatures above written are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 31st day of July 1851
Philip Martin, Clerk C.O.
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State of Georgia
County of Habersham
On this twentieth day of April 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 Cynthia Wadkins aged Eighty five years, a resident of Habersham County in the State of Georgia, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Wadkins deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Baker, the Regiment nor the name of the Colonel, not now known or recollected, in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain, and the United States, that her said husband enlisted at Guildford in the State of North Carolina, some time as she believes between Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six and Seventeen hundred and Eighty, the precise time not known, nor the term of time for which he enlisted, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of nine months, and was honorably discharged, the place nor time of his discharge not know or recollected, she further states that she was lawfully married to the said John Wadkins, sometime in the year of Seventeen hundred and ninety one, the month not the day not recollected by a Justice of the peace, whose name he has forgotten, in Newberry District South Carolina, and that her name before her said marriage was Cynthia Loftis. that there is no public or private record of her said marriage, within her knowledge, possession, power or control. That her said husband died at her present place of residence in said County on or about the 19th day of February 1841, and that she is now a widow. she also declares that she is now a pensioner for the services as aforesaid of said husband, and respectfully refers to the proof now on file in the Pension office of his said services, in and of this claim for County land - She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd 1855.
Cynthia Wadkins

We, James Anderson and Benjamin F. Reynolds, residents of Habersham County in the State of Georgia upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Cynthia Wadkins in our presence, and that we believe from the statements and appearance of the applicant that she is the
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identical person she represents herself to be we the said James Anderson and Benjamin F. Reynolds also further declare upon our oaths that we were personally acquainted with the said John Wadkins deceased in his lifetime and at the same time with his wife the said Cynthia Wadkins that we have often seen them cohabit as husband and wife during the lifetime of the said John Wadkins and know that they lived together as such, that it has was and has always been so reputed, and never questioned nor disputed within our knowledge, that they were lawfully husband and wife, that the said John Wadkins died some time in the year 1841, this we know from the fact that we lived in the neighbourhood where he died at the time of his death, and have resided there ever since. That we now know the said Cynthia Wadkins and that she is now a widow; 
James Anderson
Benjamin F Reynolds

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; and that the clamant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
John Kytle, Justice of the Peace

Georgia
Habersham County 
Know all men by these presents that I Cynthia Wadkins of said County do hereby appoint Philip Martin of the same place my true & lawful attorney with the power of substitution to present this my claim for bounty land, and to receive the Certificate or warrant when issued under this claim, and to do all other lawful acts necessary to obtain the same. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 20th day of April 1855.
Signed Sealed & acknowledged in presence of James Anderson.
Cynthia Wadkins
Benjamin F. Reynolds

Georgia
Habersham County 
Before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for said County on this 20th April 1855, personally appeared Cynthia Wadkin who acknowledged the above power of attorney to be her act and deed.
Witness my hand & official signature the day & year aforesaid
John Kytle, Justice of the Peace
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Georgia
Habersham County 
I, Cicero H. Sutton, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said County do hereby certify that John Kyle before whom the above foregoing declaration affidavit and power of attorney were made & executed is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissions and authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgement and that his signature thereto written is genuine, and that I am not interest in this claim.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 1st day of May A.D. 1855.
C. H. Sutton Clk. C.C.

Please Address
Philip Martin
Clarksville
Habersham County
Georgia
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Wadkins
Cynthia Wadkins
4 Mar 31 to 19 Feby 1841
$298.75
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State of Georgia
Habersham County

Be it known that before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared on this Wadkins and made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical person named in the original certificate in her possession, of which I certify the following is a true copy:

Department of the Interior
Claim for Military Service
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United State, of the 7th June 1832, John Wadkins deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary war, was entitled to a pension of Thirty Dollars per annum, commencing 4 March 1831 & ending 19 February 1841, when he died; and that the amount due is payable to Cynthia Wadkins his Widow
Given at the Department of the Interior, this first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Alexander A. H. Stuart
Examined and Countersigned
J. E. Heath

Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Pensions
Payment to be made at Savannah Ga, by James S. Morel, agent for paying pensioners, in the agency of Savannah Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Volume 6, page 107 by R. Mae Clerk.
That she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the mentioned John Wadkins, that she now resides in Hab-
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[Habersham] County, State of Georgia, and has resided there for the space of nine years past, and that previous thereto she resided Spartanburgh District State of South Carolina the truth of which statements, I am fully satisfied.
Cynthia Wadkins
Sworn to and subscribed this fourteenth day of May 1852 before me James Amos T. Akerman

Be it known that I Cynthia Wadkins of Habersham County, State of Georgia, widow of John Wadkins, a pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint William More my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Savannah my pension from the fourth day of March 1831 to the mine Ninth day of February 1841, as widow of said John Wadkins deceased.
Witness my hand and seal this fourteenth day of May 1852. 
Cynthia Wadkins
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of witness Amos J. Harman.
James Prince, Justice of the Peace

State of Georgia
Habersham County 
Be it known that on the fourteenth day of May 1852 before the subscriber of the peace in and for said County personally Cynthia Wadkins widow above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.
Amos Akerman, Witness
James Prince, Justice of the Peace
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State of Georgia
Habersham County ⎬
I, Philip Martin, Clerk of the Superior Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that James Prince is a justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his Commission was dated on the twenty ninth day of March, 1851 and will expire on the first Saturday of January and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of May 1852
Philip Martin Clerk S.C.

State of Georgia
Chatham County
Be it known that on the 16th day of June-1852, before me agent for paying pensions in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared William Morel the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive, by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney, either by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been disposed of to any person whatever
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me
James S. Morel

PAYMENT VOUCH
Received from GAO
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United States Pension Agency Georgia
Savannah June 1832
Received from James S Morel agreed for paying pensions two hundred & ninety eight dollars being for nine years eleven months and fifteen days pension due to Cynthia Wadkins for the fourth day of March 1831 to the [Illegible].
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No 38.233
John Wadkins deceased
Georgia
Act 7 June 1832
Let Nov 3 /57
Hon J. M. Berrier
Savannah
Georgia
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State of Georgia 
Habersham County 
On this twenty fourth day of June A.D. 1851, personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid, Cynthia Wadkins, a resident of the County aforesaid, aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn makes on oath the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"
That she is the widow of John Wadkins a soldier in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution in the North Carolina line, as she has been informed by him and served in that was as she has been further told by him as an express;
That she was born in Pennsylvania and taken in early childhood to North Carolina, as she remembers to the County of Guildford, and there resided till she was nearly grown; that there she became acquainted with the said John Wadkins her future husband, who lived in the same neighborhood; that when nearly grown she was taken by her father Job Loftes to Newberry District, South Carolina, where she was married to the said John Wadkins who had accompanied her father's family from North Carolina as a Wagoner, during the year 1791, the precise month having escaped her recollection, that her eldest child named Nancy Wadkins, now living and aged fifty nine years, was born the April of the year following her marriage; that she believes no record of the marriage exists,
That the aforesaid John Wadkins her husband, who with the declarant and the rest of his family moved into that part of Georgia now organized as Habersham County about forty years ago and there resided till his death, died in said County on the nineteenth of February one thousand eight hundred and forty one;
That she was not married to her said husband prior to his leaving the service, but the manage took place prior to
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the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, to wit, at the time and place aforesaid:
That she and her husband were both illiterate and were therefore unable to keep records of events happening in their family; that she did not apply earlier for a pension became she did not know of the Act of Congress under which this application is made until a recent period
Cynthia Wadkins
Sworn to and subscribed before me this twenty fourth day of June, A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
Moses Ayers J.J.C.H.C.

Georgia
Habersham
At a regular session of the Honorable Inferior County Court of said county [Illegible] for ordinary purposes, held this day at the Court house of said County, the Honorable Moses Ayers, one of the Justices of said Court, being duly sworn in open Court, deposes and say that the foregoing declaration was subscribed and sworn to before him at the date therein stated at the residence of one of her family in said county; and that she, on account of bodily infirmity was and is unable to attend at the Courthouse for that purpose; deponent further says that he has for many years here acquainted with the late John Wadkins and the above declarant Cynthia Wadkins, that they always appeared in society and recognized each other as husband and wife, and as such were universally recognized in the community in which they lived; that deponent knows that the said John Wadkins died in said County at or about the time stated in said declaration; that from deponents knowledge of the ages of the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the said Cynthia Wadkins he is confident that her marriage with the said John Wadkins
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took place before the first of January one thousand hundred and ninety four.
Subscribed and sworn to in open Court this Seventh day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, before us, the words “by the said Cynthia Wadkins” in the sixth line, being inserted before signing also the word “seven” in the last line but one.
Moses Ayers 

Thomas B. Wheeler 
James Griggs
John B. King

I, Philip Martin, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in and for the said County of Habersham and State of Georgia, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Cynthia Wadkins for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this 31st day of July 1851.
Philip Martin, Clerk C.O.
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Payment to be made at Savannah GA by James S. Morel, Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of Savannah.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol 6 Page 107 by R. McRae, Clerk
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Claim for Military Service.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, John Wadkins deceased who was a Private in the Revolutionary War was entitled to a pension of Thirty Dollars per annum, commencing 4 March 1831 & ending 19 February 1841, when he died and that the amount due is payable to the Wadkins his widow
Given at the Department of the Interior, this first day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.
Alex. A. H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and Countersigned 
J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Revolutionary WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6415
Cynthia Watkins
Widow 
John Watkins
Private Rev. War
Act: February 2, 1848
Index:--Vol. A, Page 307 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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15.154
[Illegible]
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No 9.713 
Cynthia Watkins, Widow of John 
GA 
Acts 8 March 1843
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No 38.233
John Wadkins
Deceased
GA
Act 7th June 1832
To Hon. J. M. Berrier 
Nov 3rd 1857
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9499
Georgia
Cynthia Watkins, widow of John, who was a Private in the Revolution.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20" day of March 154 and sent to A. H. Markland
Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2, Page 177
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UNITED STATES PENSION AGENCY GEORGIA.
SAVANNAH, 10th June 1852
Received from James S. Morel for paying pensions Two Hundred ninety Eight Dollars, being for 9 years 11 months 5 days pension, due to the Wadkins from the fourth day of March 1881 to the nineteenth day of February 1841, for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
Cynthia Wadkins
William Morel, Attorney
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Pension Office 
March 17, 1854
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Georgia Roll
Cynthia Watkins, widow of John, who was a Private
North Carolina troops
9 months private
$30 per Annum
Acts
March 3 1843
June 17, 1844
Feb. 2, 1848,

March 4th 1843
A.H. Markland
Present
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I, WILLIAM HILL, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls of the Continental line of this State, in the Revolutionary War, that John Wadkins, a private Soldier in Capt. Baker's Company of the tenth Regiment, entered the service on the 20th day of July 1778, for the term of nine months.
Given under my hand this 22nd day of February 1857.
William Hill, Secretary of State
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State of Georgia
Habersham County 
I, Philip Martin, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in said County, do hereby certify that Andrew Guiley is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State as above duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 22nd day of January 1849 and will expire on the first day of January 1853, and that his signatures herein above written are genuine. In testimony whereof.
I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court this 6th day of November 1850.
Philip Martin, Clerk C.O.
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Pension Office
April 26th, 1852
I have the honor to return herewith the depositions enclosed in your letter of the 8th Dec. last in the case of Mrs. Wadkins and to inform you that we can find no papers in this office to which they appear to relate.
If you will describe the claim and inform us in whose right, from what state, and under what act, it was preferred, another search will be made.
I have the honor to be, very Respectfully,
[Illegible]

J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions

Hon. J. McP. Berrier
House of Reps
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Evidence case of
John Walkins
Geo Act 32
A. H. Markland
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Washington City March 10th 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo
Court of Pensions
I have the honor to enclose herewith the evidence of marriage of Cynthia Watkins to John Waters, who was placed on the Georgia roll under act 7th June 1832, I claim for her a pension under act 43 44 & 48, at the same rate per husband was allowed, when allowed please send certificate to me.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
A. H. Markland
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John Wadkins
GA
Act 7 June 1832.
Adm?
9 months private $30 per annum: to 19 Feby 1841 when he died
Payable to Cynthia Wadkins, his widow

Cert to
Hon J. M. P. Berrier
U.S. Senate
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Brief in the case of John Watkins 
Habersham County and State of Georgia
Act 7 June 1832

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

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the evidence. 
Evidence of service; Record

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

Name and residence of Agent
Hon J. M. Berrien
U.S. Senate

Kirby
Examining Clerk.
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Brief in the case of Cynthia Wadkins, widow of John,
Habersham County and State of Georgia

Act March 3d 1843 June 17, 1844, &
Claim, (“original,” or “for increase.”)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband Pensioned Act June 7, 1832.
Record evidence of marriage prior to 1791.

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

Name and residence of Agent
A. H. Markland
Present.

Examining Clerk.
Ogden Niles
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Rockingham, near Clarksville, Georgia
1st August 1857
Sir,
I have the honor herewith to forward he you the application for a pension of Cynthia Wadkins, and to commend her case to your attention at your earliest convenience. The service of her husband, appears from the certificate of the Secretary of State of North Carolina and I think the evidence is sufficient to fix the date of the marriage to the year 1791. Will you oblige me by an acknowledgment of this letter directed to Clarksville, Georgia and as early as may be consistent with your engagements? The applicant is aged, that delay in her case, would amount to denial.
I am very Respectfully, 
Matheson Berry

James E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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The depositions relate to the claim of Cynthia Wadkins widow of John Watkins, of the County of Habersham in the State of Georgia, for the pension due to her husband, and for its continuance in her own right.
J. Wilson acting Commissioner on the 3rd Nov 1857, states that upon the production of satisfactory evidence of the duke of the death of John Wadkins, a pension will be allowed for nine months service under the act of 7 June 1832 up to the time of his death but if she wishes it continued in her own right she must establish the date of her marriage.
It is now asked, in terms of this letter that the pension may be allowed up to the time of the death of John Wadkins. The evidence of the marriage [Illegible] will be furnished hereafter.
MacPherson Ferris
1st May 1852
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Grove
Habersham County 
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Inferior Court of said County, James Anderson a Citizen of said County aged fifty two, who being duly sworn deposes and says that for many years he was intimately acquainted with the late John Wadkins the consort of widow Cynthia Wadkins, that in February eighteen hundred and forty one, deponent was sent for to visit the said John Wadkins who was then lying sick at his (the said John Wadkins) residence in said County, that deponent watched with him the said Wadkins all night and the next morning, the nineteenth of February, as deponent distinctly recollects, the said Wadkins while deponent was in attendance by his bedside, expired about half an hour after sunrise. Deponent is confirmed in his recollection of the date by the fact that deponent joined the Baptist Church at Camp Creek in said County a few months after the death of said Wade kins, and the record of the church show that he connected himself therewith in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one, and by many other circumstances. Deponent assisted at the burial of said John Wadkins the day after the latter death, deponent knows that Cynthia Wadkins and all of her immediate family at the time of her husband’s death are and were illiterate and that no record of death has been kept in said family.
James W Anderson
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of November, 1851
Moses Ayres J.S.C.H.C

Georgia
Habersham County 
Personally appeared before me a justice of the Inferior Court of said County, Benjamin F. Reynolds, a resident of said County aged thirty three, who being duly seven, deposes and says that he worked on the farm of the late John Wadkins of said County, the husband of Widow Cynthia Wadkins, during the spring and summer of the year of
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Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty, that he worked on the came have but in the employ of Widow Cynthia Wadkins during the spring and summer of the next year, viz, the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one and distinctly remembers that the said John Wadkins died in the month of February between the two aforesaid sermons the day of the month the deponent cannot precisely state. Deponent was present at the burial of the said John Wadkins.
Benjamin F. Reynolds
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of November, 1857.
Moses Ayres J.J.C.H.C.

Georgia
Habersham County 
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Inferior Court of said County, Sally Wadkins a resident of said County, who being duly sworn deposed and says that she is the daughter of the late John Wadkins of said County and of Cynthia now his widow, that she was present in her father’s house at the time of the latter's death and distinctly remembers that it was in the month of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty one, the precise day deponent state, but the common tradition of the family is that it was the nineteenth, deponent knows that no record of death has been kept in the family.
Sally Watkins
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of November 1857.
Moses Ayres J.J.C.H.C.

Georgia
Habersham County
Personally appeared before me a justice of the Inferior Court of said County, James Reynolds aged sixty four, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he well knew the late John Wadkins of said County
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That deponent was present in his the said Wadkins house at the time of the latter's last sickness that deponent attended him the said Wadkins, three or four days before his death, saw him expire and attended his burial; deponent knows that it was on or about the nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one, in the latter part of the week, that the said Wadkins died. Deponent is a resident of said County.
James Reynolds
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of November, 1851.
Moses Ayres J.J.C.H.C

I hereby certify that the above deponents James Anderson, Benjamin F Raynolds, Sally Wadkins, and James Reynolds are residents of the County of Habersham and State of Georgia, and that their characters are such that they may be relied on for truth.
December 24th 1857
Moses Ayres J.I.C.H.C.

Georgia
Habersham County 
I, James E. Griggs Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County hereby certify that the Honorable Moses Ayres before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, was, on the twenty fourth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty one a duly commissioned and acting Justice of the Inferior Court of said County, an officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty fifth of November A.D. 1851. And I further certify that his signature to the said affidavit and the foregoing certificate are genuine, Witness my hand and said seal the date above written.
James E. Griggs, Clk. J.C.
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Cynthia Wadkins
Act 1838
GA
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State of Georgia
County of Habersham
Be it known that on this fifteenth day of Jany A. D. 1853, before me, the under Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Cynthia Wadkins resident of Clarkesville in said County, and made oath according to me that she is the widow of the identical John Watkins Sale in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of [Blank].
That she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney heretofore given, I hereby appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of John Watkins for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. 
Cynthia Wadkins 
Sworn to, subscribed, and acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe Cynthia Wadkins to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged. 
Russell Davis J.P.
State of Georgia
County of Habersham
It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Superior Court of said County that Cynthia Wadkins the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the widow of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify that Russell Davis, Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of this nineteenth day of January 1853. 
Philip Martin, Clerk S.C.