Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,698, for Moses Liddell, South Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S. C.

Liddell, Moses
Haney, Elizabeth
Former widow

NUMBER
W. 7698

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CONTENTS
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2760
Georgia  2760
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Elizabeth Haney
widow of Moses Liddell
S.C.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Lieut & Capt
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
424 Dollars 16
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 
3 day of Jany. 1849
and sent to  
Mr. Maltbie 
Lawrenceville
Geo.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensions under act 
February 2, 1848, Page 210 [hole in paper]

[notes on right side of paper]
Let to [illegible] Lumpkin
Jan. 19, 44
[the rest is illegible]
Jany 3/21 [?]
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V        No 8622
Declaration of 
Elizabeth Haney

Eliabeth Haney
wid of Moses Liddell
Ga.

acts 7 July '38
& 23 Aug. '42
Admd.

2 mo. 15 ds Lt. Cavy.
15 mo. 9 ds Capt. do.
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424.16


James Liddell
Rome
Floyd Co.

Hon. M. A. Cooper,
Ga.  HR
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

On this twenty third day of 
of January one Thousand Eight
hundred and forty three (1843) Personally appeared
before the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid
Elizabeth Haney a resident of said State & County aged
Seventy eight (78) years, who being first sworn according 
to law doth on her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the 
Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 and the 23rd August
1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during
the Revolutionary War & that she is the widow of Moses
Liddell who was a Captain in the Militia of the State
of South Carolina.  The she was acquainted with her late
husband Moses Liddell from her first recollection their families 
residing within two miles of each other.  That she knew that her 
said husband turned out as whig at the commencement 
of hostilities in South Carolina, and that 
until the close of the Revolutionary war was almost in constant 
service except when sick or disabled by a wound.  That she
can not now recollect all the tours or campaigns he was in 
or the battles he was engaged in but recollects that in the 
1776 he was engaged in an expedition against the Cherokee
Indians and while in advance of the Army as a spy he 
received a severe wound from Indians trying an ambush.
He was in the fort where he lay some time with his wounds.
This expedition was conducted by Col. Williamson, Genl. Richie
then Major.  Her said husband being a long time confined
by this wound.  She does not recollect any particular service
rendered by him until the Florida expedition which she
believes took place in the year 1778 when he was engaged
in that expedition as a Lieutenant.  James McCall Captain
after the return of the Army which had been gone all summer
her said husband had a severe spell of sickness and that 
after his recovery he was appointed a Captain and served
as such without any intermission until the close of the war.
That being a young man unincumbered with a family
he was constantly in service and that she understood at 
the time that he was engaged in several scirmages and
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Battles but does not now recollect the time and places at which
they all occurred.  She recollects that he was stationed with
his company for some time in the neighborhood she believes 
at Alexanders Mill in Abbeville District So. Carolina to 
watch the movement of the tories and to prevent the 
incursion of the Indians into the settlement (that being a 
frontier post) when as she understood the tories and Indians
attempted to surprise him but were themselves surprised
by him and his company and defeated.  This 
happened in the early fall of 1781.  She 
knows also that he commanded a company the campaign
during which was fought the Battle of the Eutaw.  That her brother
Andrew Johnson was his Lieutenant, and that in that
battle her said brother received a mortal wound of which 
he shortly afterwards died but not until after he was 
brought into the neighborhood.  She saw him buried her 
said husband remaining with his company at that time 
with the Army under Genl. Juan [?] 
She also declares that she was married to the 
said Moses Liddell on the sixteenth (16) day of September
seventeen hundred and eighty four (1784) in Abbeville District
South Carolina by the Rev. John Harris [?] a Presbeterian Minister 
and at the house of James Alexander.  that her husband the aforesaid
Moses Liddell died on the second (2nd) day of August one 
thousand eight hundred and two (1802).  That she was not
married to his prior to his leaving the service, but the 
married took placed previous to the first day of January one 
thousand seven hundred and ninety four (1794) viz at the 
time above stated - She further declares that after the 
death of the husband aforesaid she was married to Thomas
Haney, on the fifteen day of June one thousand eight hundred
and fourteen (1814).  That he died on the second day of June 
one thousand eight hundred and twenty one (1821) and that 
she is still a widow.

Elizabeth Haney [her mark] X

Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year
above written before 
Richd Alvinn J.I.C.
Saml. Dunlap J.I.C.
Saml. F Alexander J.I.C.
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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Riley S. Baker Clerk of the Inferior 
Court of Gwinnett County in the State
of Georgia do certify that the foregoing declaration was
made in open court in said County and was executed
at the said time and place before the officers signing 
the same all of whom are now acting Judges of the Inferior 
Court of said County and in my presence
Given under my hand and Seal 
of Office this 23rd day of January 1843

Riley S. Baker C.I.C. 

[seal]
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

On this twenty third day of 
January one thousand eight
hundred and forty three (1843) Personally appeared
before me the subscribing Justice of the Inferior Court
of Gwinnett County, State of Georgia, Ruth Liddell
aged Eighty years and resident in said State & County
who being sworn according to law deposeth and saith
that she was well acquainted with Captain Moses Liddell
and with Elizabeth Haney who is now present before her and 
that the said Elizabeth Haney before her marriage
with Moses Liddell was named Elizabeth Johnson and 
also that in the fall of the year one thousand seven 
hundred and eighty four she was at the house of 
Andrew Liddell where Elizabeth Johnson then lived 
and that she understood that Moses Liddell and Elizabeth
Johnson now Elizabeth Haney had started to meet the 
Minister a Rev. Jas Harris to get married but that she
was compelled to return home to attend a sick person[?]
and did not see them return but understood from them that accompanied them that they were 
married.  That she knew them ever since until the 
death of Moses Liddell and that they were together
as man and wife util then.  She knew nothing of 
the services of said Moses Liddell she having removed
in the new settlement of Tennessee until after the close
of the war and further saith not

Ruth Liddell X

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day 
and year above written

Saml. F. Alexander J.I.C.
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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Saml. F Alexander Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary do
certify that Ruth Liddell is a woman 
of good name and credit this 8th
day of March 1843

Saml. F. Alexander J.C.O.


Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Riley S. Baker Clerk of the Inferior 
Court & for said County do hereby
certify that Samuel F. Alexander whose name appears
to the within Deposition as taken &
made before him was at the time of the taking & executing the
same an acting & residing Justice of the Inferior
Court and that full faith & credit ought to be had & given 
to his attestation as such & that the same is in due
form & by the proper officer.
Given under my hand & seal of office
this 6th day of March 1843.

Riley S. Baker C.I.C.

[seal]

[written sideways]
testimony
Ruth Liddell
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Georgia
Gwinnett County

On this twenty third day of 
January one thousand eight 
hundred and forty three (1843) Personally appeared before
me the County
of Gwinnett & State aforesaid Mary Harris aged about
eighty four years and resident in said County after being 
sworn according to law deposeth and saith that during
the revolutionary war she resided with her father in 
Abbeville District South Carolina not far distant from
the residence of the father of Captain Moses Liddell
and was well acquainted with the said Moses
Liddell.  That she well recollects that early in the war
said Moses Liddell received a severe wound while
acting as a spy this happened she believes in 1776.
That her mother was a nurse in Pickens fort where she
frequented aided her mother in dressing his wound
That afterward the said Moses Liddell was engaged
in the florida expedition which started early in the spring
and returned in the fall of 1778, and that after his 
return he had a severe spell of sickness which caused 
his wound to inflame when she and her mother again
nursed him and dressed his wound.  That after his recovery
he was appointed a captain of the Militia and as 
such remained until the close of the war.  She believes
that she knows no man either officer or soldier that was
more constantly in service yet her memory having to 
some extent failed, she can not specify any particular 
Battle he was in but understood that he was in several
She does recollect that he commanded a company posted
at Alexanders Mill where he had a battle with the 
tories and Indians.  She was on the ground nex day and 
saw one dead man a tory.  the tories was defeated
further she recollects not

Mary Harris  X

Sworn to & subscribed to the day & year above written in presence of 
Saml. F. Alexander J.I.C.
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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Saml. F. Alexander Court
of Ordinary do certify that 
Mary Harris is a woman of good [illegible]
name and credit and ought to and is a 
woman of be believed on her oath this 6th
day of March 1843

Saml. F. Alexander C.C.O.




Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Riley S. Baker Clerk of the Inferior 
Court in & for said County do hereby
certify that Samuel F. Alexander whose name appears
to the within Deposition taken & made before him
was at 
the time of the execution of said deposition an acting and 
presiding Justice of the Inferior Court and that full faith
and credit ought to be had and given to his attestation as 
such and that the same is in due form & by the proper
officer.
Given under my hand & seal of office 
this 6th day of March 1843.

Riley S. Baker, C.I.C.

[seal]


[written sideways]
testimony 
Mary Harris
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
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File No.  7698
Elizth. Haney
for. Widow of 
Moses Liddell
Capt. Rev. War
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Act:  Feby. 2nd 48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 305

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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3904
Georgia
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Elizabeth Haney, formerly
widow of Moses Liddell
who was a Lieut. & Captain
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
424 Dollars 16
Cents per annum, to commence
the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
15th day of Dec. 1843
and sent to Wm. Maltbie
Lawrenceville
Georgia
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 6  Page 213.


[note on right side of page]
[illegible]
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7286
Georgia
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Elizabeth Haney, formerly
widow of Moses Liddell
who was a pensioner under the Act of  [blank]
and who died on the 2d August 1802
of Gwinnett Co. in the State of Georgia
who was a Lt. & Capt. in the [blank]
commanded by Captain [blank] of the 
Regt. commanded by Genl. Pickens in 
the South Carolina line for 2 mo. 15 days Lt. Cavy.
15 mo. 9 days Capt. do
-------------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 424 Dollars 16
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day 
of March, 1836.
---------------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of 
May 1843 and sent to James Liddell
Rome, Floyd Co., Geo.
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Total amount,  $2120.80

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by Robt. Stewart Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2  Page 198


[note on right side of page]
Rept [illegible] May 25
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Comptrollers office
Columbia    April 8th/43

Dear Sir

Yours of the 21 ulto. I have just received it is the first notice
I have had from you and in compliance with your request I have 
examined the records and the subjoined statement, in all the evidence
this office affords--
Indb B.
No. 173
Book P.
Service the 12" April 1785  To Moses Liddell for Four
Hundred & Seventy four pounds, twelve shillings and a penny
half penny Sterlg. for p ay due as Lieut. Capt. & Col. in the 
Militia in 1780 & 1781, as pr. acct. audited - 
Principal L474:12:1 1/2 No. 36 Annual Inst. L 33:4:5

Audd. acct
No. 173 Book P.
No. 36   do    do
Moses Liddell his acct. of Duty in the Militia
as Capt. & Lieut. per his pay base in 1780 & 1781
amtg. to [illegible] on Horse as apt. 459 days 0701 [?]                                         L1599:10
as Lieut. 75 days o 105 [?]             L168:15
Also for              
Duty per Col. Anderson's return    L1554
Currency                                        L3322:59
Sterlg.                                        474:12:1 1/2
Four Hundred and seventy four pounds, twelve shillings and one penny
half penny Sterlg.   
Exo H. R. Jones. A.C.

I certify the above to be a true statement & copy from the books in 
this office

For Comptroller General
J Laval

(She charged three Dollars.)
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E. Haney

$424:16 per an


Wm. Maltbie
Lawrenceville
Geo.
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Lawrenceville Ga    Sept 14. 1843

Sir

You will herewith receive
Mrs. E. Haney Declaration -  You 
will please send her papers to my care

Respectfully Yours
Wm. Maltbie



J L Edwards Esq.
Com Pensions
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Washington City
9th Jany 1849.

Col. James L. Edwards.
Com of Pensions

Sir

My friend and constituent
Col. Maltbie of Lawrenceville
Gwinnett County  Ga. informs me 
by letter that he transmitted by mail 
to you some months ago the declarations 
of Mrs. Haney and Mrs. Gowens [Gowers?]
for the removal of their pensions as the
widows of Revolutionary Soldiers - 
He desires to inquire through me whether
they have been removed and if so to 
request you to send him the necessary
blanks - 

Yours truly
Jno. H. Lumpkin
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Apl 19 1843

Rev
Add proof
Eliz. Haney
for 
Liddel


[post mark] 
ROME 
APR 
13
GA

[stamp]
FREE


[written sideways]

James Liddell
Answer April 29, 1843



[written sideways the other direction]
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
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Rome Ga.  12th Apl. 1843

Dear Sir

The answer to your request made of the Compt. Genl.
of So. Carolina some time since to search the records
of his [illegible] evidence of the services of Moses Liddell 
with a view of obtaining a pension for
my Mother whose declaration and their testimony has 
been hereto forwarded to [illegible]  I have just received
the enclosed communication to which I hope will be [illegible]
to enable you to decide satisfactorily on the claim - 
I thank you Sir for the suggestion that such testimony
could be [illegible] officers and believe [illegible] to be 

Your [illegible] friend
& obt Servt.
James Liddell

[several illegible lines follow I believe to be a P.S.]
....that my Mother declares in
the name of Elizabeth Haney.

J Liddell
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Washington City
6th Feby. 43

Sir

Inclosed you have Mr. Liddells
Application for a pension, with Testimony to 
Support it.  I trust you will find it Sufficient
& advise me accordingly

Your obt Servt
Mark A Cooper



J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

On this 5th day of October one
thousand eight hundred and forty eight
personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the 
Inferior Court in and for the County and state aforesaid
Elizabeth Haney a resident of Gwinnett County State 
aforesaid aged eighty four years, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make 
the following declaration, in order to obtain the 
benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress
passed on the 2d of February 1848 granting pensions
to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary
war - that she is the widow of 
Moses Liddell who was a major in the war of 
the revolution, and as such widow she received
under the act of 17 June 1844, an annual pension
of four hundred and twenty four dollars and sixteen 
cents - that she has not intermarried but continues to 
be the widow of the said Major Moses Liddell
deceased.

Elizabeth Haney [her mark]  X

Sworn and subscribed on the 
day and year above written
before us
Moses Liddell
Wm. Maltbie J. I. C.

[seal]
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State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

I William Maltbie a Justice
of the Inferior Court in and for
the County and State aforesaid do certify that Elizabeth
Haney the declarant above named is personally
known to me, and is the same person who drew
a pension under the act of 17th June 1844.

Wm. Maltbie J. I. C.


State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

I David W. Spence Clerk of the 
Superior Court of the County and
State aforesaid do certify that William Maltbie is a 
Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County
duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was 
dated on the 15th day of January 1845 and will
expire on the first Monday in January 1849.
and that his signatures herein before written are genuine.
Given under my hand and Seal of said 
Court this 5th day of October 1848.

David W. S pence Clk
S.C.
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Rome Ga  17th March 1834

Dear Sir

I herewith transmit to you the testimony to 
sustain the claim of Elizabeth Haney as the widow
of Capt. Moses Liddell to a pension as such - her declaration
was forwarded to your office some time since with
most of the testimony now forwarded though the petitions
of Majr. Cooper a representative in Congress from this State 
but which with the exception of the declaration was sent
back to me on account of informality accompanied by
a note from you specifying wherein the informality
consisted and also requiring proof of the term of serve
rendered by the decd Moses Liddell as Captain or
Lieutenant with a suggestion that the evidence of the 
latter might be provided from the Comp. Genl. of So. Carolina
Immediately on the rect. of the papers I addressed 
a note to the Compt. requesting him to forward to me 
a certificate of any record that might in his office in 
reference to the services of my Father Capt. Moses Liddell
but up to this date have not received an answer -
I have however in the mean time procured Testimony
sufficient as I think to establish the fact that my 
Father Moses Liddell did serve two full years as a 
Captain.  But if in your judgement it may not be 
satisfactorily established it is my desire that you would
suspend a decision on the case until I have an 
opportunity of availing my mother of any testimony
that may be obtained from the records of the Compt. Genl.
office of So. Carolina - I have recently visited 
the District of Abbeville So. Carolina some 200 miles from 
this place for the purpose of procuring testimony in this
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case, as well as to amend the informality of the testimony
previously forwarded and found none of my Fathers
contemporarys in the war alive but then
whom testimony is now forwarded but found many
who could tell me tales of his acting and doings in that 
struggle by their Fathers - Believing therefore most
firmly that my Father did serve in the Revolutionary war
at least three years as a Captain I have individually no
desire that a pension should be allowed under that grade.
I had rather contribute to nourish her in her declining
life than that she should receive a pension which 
should fix my Fathers grade in the army lower than 
it should be
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State of Georgia
Floyd County

On this 31st day of January
1843 Personally appeared before 
me the subscribing Justice of the Inferior Court
for the County of Floyd & State aforesaid William
Turner a citizen of said State & County aged seventy
fie years, and being sworn in due form of law
deposeth and saith that from his earliest recollection 
he was acquainted with Capt. Moses Liddell and 
that his acquaintance with the said Moses Liddell
continued until the death of the said Moses Liddell
at first in the Dist. of Abbeville So. Carolina until
the close of the revolutionary war and afterwards in 
the Dist. of Pendleton said State.  That he knows 
that the said Moses Liddell was called a Captain 
in time of the aforesaid war and that in the immediate
neighborhood of this deponents Father
such commanded a company at Alexanders ills
and had there a battle with indians & tories
whom he defeated.  That although a boy at 
that time he recollect all the circumstances
which if necessary he would relate.  He knows that 
it was notorious in the time of the A. War and ever
afterwards that the said Moses Liddell was a Captain 
and a staunch whig and was particularly active
in the service.  Also that he knew that the 
present applicant, now Elizabeth Haney, and 
the said Moses Liddell lived together as man 
and wife until the death of the said Moses
Liddell and that he believes they were legally so.

William Turner  X

Sworn to and subscribed
before me this day and date
above written.

N. Yarbrough J.I.C.
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State of Georgia
Floyd County

I do hereby certify that I am 
acquainted with the within
named deponent William Turner and believe
him to be a man of strict veracity and 
entitled to full credit as a witness
Given under my hand this 16th March 1843

N. Yarbrough J.I.C.



State of Georgia
Floyd County

I Jesse Lamberth Clerk of the 
Inferior Court of said County and State do 
hereby certify that Nathan Yarbrough whose name 
appears to the above certificate is an acting
Justice of the Inferior Court as above and that 
the foregoing signature purporting to be his is 
genuine.  In Testimony whereof i have 
here unto affixed my private seal there being
no Seal of Court, and Subscribed my name 
this Sixteenth day of March eighteen 
hundred and forty three

Jesse Lamberth C.I.C.    [seal]
Page 27

Rome  31st Nov 1849

Hon Sir

In addition to testimony forwarded 
yesterday I handwrite[?] the enclosed
which please place with the 
department in great haste

Your obt Servt.
James Liddell
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FREE [stamp]


J L Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

[post mark]
LAWRENCEVILLE
OCT 
7
Page 29

Lawrenceville    October 4th 1848.

Dear Sir

I hand you the declaration 
of Elizabeth Haney and Elizabeth G[illegible]
You will please send me the requisite
forms to draw their pensions in Savannah,
and also the law of Feby 2nd 1848 extending
the act of 1844 granting pensions to widows
of revolutionary soldiers.
A compliance will much oblige

Your obt servt. [obedient servant]
Wm. Maltbie



J L Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
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South Carolina
Abbeville District

On this 6th day of March 1843
personally appeared before me the subscribing
Magestrate in and for said District Joseph
Lesley a citizen of said State and District aged
about eighty years who after being duly
sworn according to law deposeth and saith
that he was well acquainted with Capt. Moses
Liddell for some time previous to the close
of the revolutionary war that he had resided 
for several years in the said State & District
where the said Moses Liddell also resided and 
commanded a company.  That in the years after
the Battle at the Eutaw Spring and previous
to the evacuation of Charleston by the British
he served two tours of duty under the said 
Capt. Moses Liddell, one commencing in the 
beginning of April in that year and the latter
returning about the end of August - one of those 
tours was under Major Noble.  The other under 
Genl. Pickens.  Each of those tours we joined Gen.
Greene in the neighborhood of Charleston South
Carolina and remained in his camp one month
each time.  That although he this deponent
did not live in the same company after the last
mentioned tours yet he knows that the said
Moses Liddell remained as a captain until the 
close of the war and was much esteemed as such.

Joseph Lesley [his mark]  X

Sworn to and subscribed the date 
above written before 

J. H. Baskins Magst.
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South Carolina
Abbeville District

I do hereby certify that I have been
long acquainted with the within named deponent
Joseph Lesley and that he is a man of strict
veracity and therefore entitled to full confidence
Given under my hand this 6th March 1843.

J. H. Baskins Magestrate



The State of South Carolina

I John F. Livingston Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas and General Sessions for Abbeville District in the 
State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Jonas H Baskin is 
a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto affixed my seal of office and 
subscribed my name this seventh day 
of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty three.

Jno. F Livingston 
C. C. P. & G. S.
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Rome  14th May 1843

Dr Sir

On my return home to day after a short
absence I received yours of the 29th abt covering the 
certificates of the Compt. Genl. of So. Carolina in relation
to the services of my Father Moses Liddell for which services
my mother, now Elizabeth Haney, claims a pension.  
You inform me that the papers in that case were 
forwarded to Hon. M. A. Cooper on the 11th Feb. last
and have not been returned
I have your letter before me of that date accompanying 
which I received all the testimony in 
the case previously forwarded except the declaration 
of my mother, Elizabeth Haney, which paper having all
the certificates and official deals appended thereto as dignified 
in yours of the 11th Feb. as being necessary under the
rules adopted in your department.  I suppose that you 
had retained that paper in the office and have sent
the balance which were informal and this I presume
is the case.
Immediately on the reception of those papers I 
repaired Gwinnett County Ga. and to Abbeville
Dist. So. Carolina and procured the deposition of 
John Liddell as to the marriage of Moses Liddell
and Elizabeth Haney, and also the Testimony of the 
said John Liddell, ruth Liddell, Joseph Lesley
& Mary Harris as to the services of Moses Liddell, all 
of which were duly certified and officially signed & 
sealed agreeably to your suggestion, and was mailed 
at this place about the 15th of March in the presence
of several gentlemen - it is therefore believed that this [or the]
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letter containing those papers may have been missent
from some distributing P. office and that they will 
ultimately reach you.  I have therefore thought proper
to enclose the certificate of the Compt. Genl. hoping that 
the other testimony will reach you, and that upon examination 
you will find my Mothers declaration on file in
your office.
Will you be so good on the reception of this to 
inform me whether that testimony has come to hand and 
whether the declaration is not of file.

with sincere regard
your obt Servt. [obedient servant]
James Liddell


Hon. J L. Edwards
Comr. Pen.
Page 34

Georgia
Floyd County

On this 30th day of January 1843
Personally appeared before me 
the subscribing Justice of Inferior Court for the 
County of Floyd and State aforesaid, James Liddell
of said State and County aged Fifty four  years
and after being sworn in due form of law deposeth
and saith that while living with his Mother in 
Pendleton Dist. So. Carolina previous to the year
1814 he had frequently seen in a large case in which 
was a number of old papers principally consisting 
of correspondence between his Father, Moses Liddell,
and others held during the revolutionary war. that 
several letters at least four in number, signed
by Genl. Andrew Pickens and directed to Moses Liddell
as Captain who it seemed from the tenor of said
letters was at their several dates detached with his
company from the Army and stationed at out
posts for the purpose guarding the frontier of So.
Carolina and to watch the movements of the tories
That he has no distinct recollection of any particular
post mentioned in those letters with the exception
of one at Alexanders Mills in Abbeville Dist. So. Carolina
a place with which from his youth he had been 
intimately acquainted - That a few days ago
he united his mother who resides in Gwinnett
County and enquired for the case containing
those papers and was informed by his mother
that some fifteen years ago who living in 
Franklin Co. Geo. the case happening to be left
on the hearth near one of the chimneys had taken 
fire and consumed with its contents - 

James Liddell    X

Sworn to and subscribed
before me the day & year above written

N. Yarbrough J. I. C.
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State of Georgia
Floyd County

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted 
with the within named deponent
James Liddell and that he has been considered
a man of strict veracity and entitled to full
credit as a witness - 
Given under my hand this 16th March 1843

N.  Yarbrough J. I. C.



State of Georgia
Floyd County

I Jesse Lamberth Clerk of 
the Inferior Court of said County and State
do hereby certify that Nathan Yarbrough
whose name appears to the above certificate
is an acting Justice of the Inferior Court
as above and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine.  In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto affixed my private
Seal there being no Seal of Court & subscribed
my name this sixteenth day of March eighteen
hundred and forty three.

Jesse Lamberth C. I. C.   [seal]
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South Carolina
Abbeville District

On this sixth day of March
one Thousand Eight hundred 
and forty three (1843) Personally appeared before
me the subscribing Justice of the Peace in and 
for said District, Joh Liddell a citizen of
the same aged about seventy five years and 
after being duly sworn according to law
deposeth and saith that he was from his first
recollection acquainted with Capt. Moses Liddell
he being his brother and also with Elizabeth
Johnson who is now making application 
as the widow of said Moses Liddell under the 
name of Elizabeth Haney.  That he was at 
the marriage of the said Moses Liddell
with the said Elizabeth Johnson which 
happened as well as he recollects in the fall of 
the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty four
(1784).  That the said Moses Liddell died
about the year Eighteen hundred and two
and his widow afterwards married a 
certain Thomas Haney who has since died
as he has been informed and believes.  That 
although too young to do any service
in the revolutionary war yet he was old enough
to recollect many of its incidents and That his 
brother Moses was a Captain and in service for 
some two years previous to the close of said 
War.

John Liddell

Sworn to and subscribed 
before me the ay and year
above written

Geo. B. Clinkscales Magst.
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South Carolina
Abbeville District

I do hereby certify that 
I have been long acquainted
with John Liddell who has this
day made the within deposition and 
know him to be a man of strict veracity
and entitled to full credit as a witness
Given under my hand this sixth day 
of March 1843

Geo. B. Clinkscales Magst.



The State of South Carolina

I John F. Livingston Clerk of the Courts of 
General Sessions and Common Pleas for Abbeville District
in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George
B. Clinkscales is a magistrate as above, and that 
the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and 
subscribed my name, this seventh
day of March in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty three. --

Jno. F. Livingston
C. C. P. & G. S.
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Declaration.

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
of the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for one
year to certain widows who have received
Pension, under the Act of July 1838.

State of Georgia
Gwinnett County

On this 14th day of September
1843, personally appeared before
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County, Elizabeth Haney a resident of 
Gwinnett County in the State of Georgia aged
Seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the 
following Declaration in order to obtain the 
benefit of the provision made by Act
of Congress passed on the 3rd March 1843
granting pensions to widows of person
who served during the revolutionary war --
that she is the widow of Moses Liddell
who was a Lieut. & Captain during the revolutionary
war, that her pension was allowed at the
rate four hundred twenty four dollars & sixteen cents per annum and
was aid to her at the Agency in Savannah
in the State of Georgia and she further
declares that she is still a widow.

Elizabeth Haney [her mark]  X

Sworn and subscribed 
before me this 14th day of September
1843.

Joseph W. Baxter J. P.
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I do hereby Certify that I am personally
acquainted with Elizabeth Haney whose signature
appears to the foregoing affidavit
and further that she is person of truth & veracity.

Joseph W. Baxter J.P.


Georgia
Gwinnett County

I David W. Spence Clerk
of the Superior Court of Gwinnett
County certify that Joseph W. Baxter is a 
Magistrate as above and that the foregoing
signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my Seal of Office and subscribed
my name this 14th day of September
1843

David W. Spence Clk
S.C.