Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8271, James Culbreath, Ga.
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Ga. Culbreath, James S 8271
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(3-1776)
Service Number
Ga. Culbreath, James S8271
Carded
Contents
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33.211
Georgia
James Culbreath died
of [line] in the State of Ga
who was a private in the [line] commanded
by Captain [line] of the [line] commanded
by [line] in the Revolution
[crossed out] for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Savannah
at the rate of 26 Dollars 662/3 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. [Unintelligible] 
26th April 1843 c
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of February
1854 and sent to
Elisha King
Arrears to the 4th of
Adairsville
Semi-annual allowance ending
Ga
Revolutionary Cl[cut off]
Act June
ecorded by H R Weigh
ook E. Vol.
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[ State of Georgia
Harris County ] on this fifteenth day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty-three personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Superior Court in and for the county aforesaid now siting Beverly S. Culbreath one of the sons and heirs at law of James Culbreath died who applied for a pension in Pike County Georgia in his lifetime. who being first duly sworn declares upon his oath that he is the son and heir of the said James Culbreath died and make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension which accrued and fell due to the said James Culbreath Decst.  under the provisions of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832,  He further declares that he the said James Culbreath departed this life on the 26th day of April One Thousand eight hundred and forty three (1843) leaving surviving him Thomas Culbreath Anna who intermarried with Joseph Morris.  Strawther who intermarried with Martin B. Reynolds  ,Wm. L Culbreath James M Culbreath together with the present applicants the only heirs at law of him the said James Culbreath all of whom continue to survive, and for the services of him the said James Culbreath refers to his declaration which is on file in the Pension Department of the United States.
Signed Beverly L Culbreath
Sworn to & subscribed before me on
this 15th March 1853
Alfred Jonson ( signed ) Judge C.C.C.
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[ State of Georgia Harris County ] Superior Court Clerk's Office March Term 1853  I Nathl. H. Barden Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that it has been made appear to the satisfaction of the  Court by evidence adduced before the same that James Culbreath who was in his lifetime an applicant for a Pension from Pike County Georgia. Departed this life on the  twenty sixth day of April  one thousand eight hundred and forth three ( 1843 ) leaving surviving him Thomas Culbreath, Anna who intermarried with Joseph Morris, Strawther who intermarried with Martin B. Reynolds, Wm L. Culbreath , James M Culbreath & Beverly L . Culbreath the present applicant the only heirs and legal representatives of him the said James Culbreath  Decst. and I further certify that it is ordained by the Court  that the same be certified to the War Department all of which is hereby certified - I further certify  that the foregoing contains the original proceedings had in the case of the application of Beverly L. Culbreath for the amount of Pension which accrued to his Father, James Culbreath Decst. . In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of  said Court at my office in the Town of Hamilton this 15th day of March 1853.  Nathl. H. Barden ( signed / sealed ) Clerk S.C.H.C.
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State of Georgia }
Harris County     }
Inferior Court Clerks Office
19th December 1853.
I William J. Hudson Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the State & County aforesaid do hereby certify that it has been Made appear in evidence to the Satisfaction of the Court by the
Oath of Beverly L. Culbreath and Cavel Jackson both of whom are Respectable & Creditable persons, that James Culbreath Decd who was an applicant for a Pension from Pike County Georgia Departed this life on the 26th Day of April 1846 in Harris County in this State and that he left no widow surviving him, but that he did leave surviving him Thomas Culbreath Anna, who Intermarried with Joseph Morris Strawther who Intermarried with Martin B. Reynolds, William L. Culbreath, James M. Culbreath and Beverly L. Culbreath his only surviving Children & heirs at Law, and that they are the children and the only Children of the Identical James Culbreath who applied for a Pension from Pike County in this State, in
his lifetime, I further certify that the same is ordered in the Court to be certified to the Pension Department of the United States, all of which is hereby certified.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court at my Office in the Town of
Hamilton this day & date above
Wm J. Hudson Clk

[Seal appears to left of signature]
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35209 -
James Culbreath
Ga
Act June 7 1832

[Wording on left edge was copied onto this image in error]
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Declaration of James Culbreath Sr In order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress, passed 7th day of June 1832.
State of Georgia}
County of Harris }
on the Twenty six day of April Eighteen hundred and forty one. 1841 --
Personally came Before me William L Culbreath, a Justice of the peace in and for said County James Culbreath Sr a Resident of said County in said State aged Now Eighty two years old. Being born the Sixteenth day of March Seventeen hundred and fifty nine or sixty, who being Duly Sworn, according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit
of the act of Congress passed the 7th June
1832 Entitled an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Revolution, that he entered the servis of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
1st Interogatory: When and in what year was you Born
A: I Was Born in Mecklinburg County in Virginia In the year 1759 or 60. by the Best Information.
2nd Do: have you any Record of your age. I have no Record of my age. My Parents was illiterate But they informed me my age as above, and I know it by other particular 
circumstances, to be so.
3rd Do: Where were you living when called into Service and where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live: applicant answers and says - I Resided in the State of Georgia at the time of entering the Service and some short time previous, I now reside in the County and State aforesaid and have lived in the counties of Richmond & Columbia, Since the year 1771 Except about in the Service. Ever since the Revolutionary War
till 1835, when I moved to this Harris County Georgia
4. how were you called in to Service - was you drafted or did you Volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom:  the applicant, answers and says he served a part of the time as a Substitute but most of the time as Volunteer as the answers of the following Interrogatories Will prove more fully
5th State the names of some of the Regular officers, who were with the troop When you served, such Continentals or Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general
circumstances of your services -  to which the declarant answers:  In the year 1777 I was under Captain Red at Newsom's ponds Ga. against the Creek Indians and under him-- at Fulsom's fort. Ga. against them there also
Three Week - We was relieved by Col H. Chandler, and In the 1778. I was three months & upwards in the Florida Expedition under Major L Gardner as Substitute for
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John Shackleford, General Elbert Commander
In the year 1779. I was under Col Robt Middleton and Col Jas Ingraham, against the Brittish at or near the Big Spirit Creek Saw Mill Two Weeks When Col Campbell was on his way to Augusta Ga at which time a skirmish took place. I was under Col L. Marbary on the South Side of Spirit Creek when General Ash was Defeated, near Briar Creek in the same year. I was at the Seage of Savannah, Ga under Captain Charles Crawford, General Lincoln
commanded the American Troops. Count D [Aslang] and D. Grace the French Troops, Col Bj. Few commanded a Regiment of Militia to the Best of my recollection; and during said year I was Six months in said Servis in the year 1779. I was also under Colonel Elijah Clark at the Seage of Augusta, Ga. and Retreated with him over the Mountains, and was under his command as Col Comdt and I was with him Clark, in the Battle of Long Cane Creek in S. Ca. When the Americans engaged Col [Craig]
and was with Clark then Defeated there at Long Cane and I was with Clark at the Last Seage of Augusta in the year 1780. I was twelve months from the latter part of 1779 in the servis there and was a true Whig all the time, and; I was with Col Hugh Middleton on the march to the Battle of Stono S. Ca., and as a substitute for Jas Harvey; - I was Twelve months in the Servis from the latter part of the year 1779 to the latter part of 1780 in the year 1781. I was with Col Jas McNeal, after the Tories - on the Ogeechee River Ga. and Subsequently under Major John Twiggs who died in the County of Richmond a Major General of Militia; served one month there. I was during this year four months in the Servis of the United States in the Militia. My servises in the Militia dureing the Revolution a private to the ending of my servises; and while under Col E. Clark. I was under Captain William Lucas and while on a scout We were fired on by Brittish & Tories I was Badly Wounded in the left arm near my shoulder. I was also taken prisoner by the Tories near Augusta. I was called out in to the Servis by propper authority, and while in Servis  I was Engaged in [as] private. Business whatever
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6th  Did you ever receive a discharge from
the Servis, and if so by whom was it given and
What has become of it, to which the Declarant
answers and says, I did receive a written
Discharge While at Saint Marys, or at Savannah
the said Discharge has bin lost and is not in my
power now to procure; the officer that give me the discharge I do not now Recollect his name
Sworn to and Subscribed Before me
this 26th day of April 1841.
Wm L. Culbreath J.P.
Jas Culbreath, Sig
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Mr. John L. Stephens Esqr.
Hamilton
agreable to promise I send you these papers for imediate action on this

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Rev War
8271
INVALID.
File No. 8271
James Culbreath
Priv Rev War
Act June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol. 1st, Page 84
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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James Culbreath
Ga
S. 8271

(No 5)

James Culbreath
(S.F. 8271) Ga.
[Illegible]
Discharge
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State of Georgia            }
Columbia County          ]
Battalion District No. 6  }

I do hereby certify that James Calbreath Clamed an Exemption from the duties required of a
Militia Man & has accordingly Cleared
Militia duty on account of rebound that he 
received in the late ware Certifyed by me this 22nd day of October 1798
Wm. Wilkins Capt

{Stamped THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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Certificate
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No 35.209
James Culbreath, dec'd
Harris Co Georgia - 
Admitted - as of June 7, 1832

8 months as private at rate of $26.66 2/3c per annum from 4th March 1831 to 26th April 1843, when he died.

Pay to James M Ramsey, administrrator upon estate of said James, to be divided among Thomas Culbreath, Anna Morris, Strawther Reynolds, William L Culbreath, James M Culbreath, and Beverly L. Culbreath - and such other children of said James, deceased, as may be now living.

Certificate to 
Elisha King,
Adairsville Ga.
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No 35209
Jas. Culbreath decd
Ga
letter to John L. Stephens
June 25 41, to Hon W T Colguet
Jan. 21 1843, do to A W. Prior June 
1, 1843. Elisha King June 27 1853
Elisha Smith 16th Jany 1854
adm. 8 mos

Act June 7 1832

78. Major Gardner, Genl. Elbert, 
E Florida -                                                 3 mo.
79. Capt. Crawford, Col. Few
Savannah                                                  2  "
80. Clarke & Lucas
Augusta                                                    3  "       
81. Col. McNeal & Col Twiggs

                                                         8 mo admt.
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[Left Side]
CK
Postmarked ADAIRSVILLE GEO JAN [??]CK
Jas Culbreath
Ga sus 32

Mail                                                    FREE
Hon L. P. Waldo Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D. C. 

[Right Side]
CK
Postmarked ADAIRSVILLE GEO FEB 11
Jas Culbreath
Ga sus 32

                                                         FREE
Hon L. P. Waldo Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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March 31,1853
Appl. of James Culbreath decd
Georgia
Act 7th June 1832
Elisha King
Adairsville
Ga.
other evidence filed
JBH

FREE
Postmarked ADAIRSVILLE GEO. MAR 27
To the Commissioner of Pensions of the U.S. Washington City 
D. C.
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State of Georgia
This is to certify that Jas Culbreath hath stedfastly done his duty from the time of passing an act at Augusta, to wit, on the 20th of August 1781, until the total expulsion of the British from this State; and the said James Culbreath cannot, to my knowledge or belief, be convicted of plundering or distressing the
country; and is therefore under the said act
entitled to a bounty of two hundred and fifty acres of good land, free from taxes for ten years
Given under my hand at Savannah
this 2nd day of Feby 178[?]
Jas McNiel

Executive Department
Milledgeville July 16th [????]
I certify that the above is a true Copy
of the original of file in this Department.
Given under my hand and
the seal of the Executive 
Department of the State of Georgia
W. W. Paine
Sec. Ex Dept
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Georgia
Harris County  Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of one said Thaddius A Jones and after being duly sworn deporeth and saith that he has been acquainted with James Culbreath for upwards of twenty years first in Columbia County Georgia and now where the said James Culbreath resides in Harris County that this deponent lives at this time in same neighborhood with said Culbreath and that said Culbreath has always been and is considered a man of truth and veracity and is generally believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that this deponent is of the opinion said Culbreath was a Soldier of the Revolution
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 3rd day of April 1842
              Culbreath
Thaddeus A. Jones
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Ga                   }
Harris County }
This is to Certify that I have been Personally aquainted with Thadeus A Jones ever since his childhood about thirty years and Believe him the sd T. A. Jones the witness to the foregoing
afadafit to Be and Man fully entitled to credit
and his afadafit should have full credit and
due force this 3d May 1842.
W. L. Culbreath  J.P.

Georgia           }
Harris County  }
I, Nathaniel H Barden Clerk of the Superior
Court in and for said County do hereby certify
That William L Culbreath whose name appears to the above and foregoing certificate, is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County; and that full faith, and credit, ought to be had and given to his attestation as
such. Given under my hand and seal of office this 6th day of May 1842
Nathl H Barden
Clerk
(No 1)
[Seal affixed on left side]
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Georgia, Meriweather County
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforsaid Elisha Trammel and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he resides within one and half miles of James Culbreath who resides in Harris County and this deponent in Merriweather County and that said James Culbreath in the neighborhood where is resides is a man of good character and is esteemed as a man of veracity and is believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that this deponent is of the opinion that said James Culbreath did serve as a soldier of the revoluution
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this day of May 1842
H.D.Tucker
Georgia Merriweather County
Elisha Trammel
This is to certify that I am and have been acquainted with the above witness Elisha Trammel to the above affadavit and that I believe him to be a man of truth and veracity
4th May 1842
H.D. Tucker
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Georgia Meriweather County

This is to certify that H.D. Tucker is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his attestation as such given under my hand and seal of office this 6th day of May 1842
John Robinson
Clk Inf Court.
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Adairsville Ga 26th March 1833
Loren P. Waldo Com of Pensions

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send the Declaration of Beverly L. Culbreath claiming the amount of pension which accrued to his father James Culbreath dec'd, who applied for a pension from Pike County several years ago.
I understand the commission proposed to allow him a pension for a part of the service he claimed but he during his lifetime declined to accept the amount proposed, regarding is as not enough.  I would therefore state that I as agent for the claimants propose to take whatever you may feel authorized from the proof on file to allow , unless the balance can be obtained by the production of some record, which can be had in the archives of some of the states.
Please report to me at this place.
I am very respectfully
Your Cbt Servant
Elisha King

S. P. Waldo Com of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Adairsville Ga 12th Febr 1854;
Hon L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir
Inclosed I send a certificate from the Ordinary of Harris County Georgia Togeather with a Transcript of the Record showing the appoint-
ment of James N. Ramsey as Administrator on the Estate of James Culbreath Decd late of said County. You will therefore be so good as to issue the certificate of Pension in the case of Beverly L. Culbreaths Application for the amount of Pension which accrued to the said James Culbreath Decd under Act of 7th June 1832, payable to Mr. James N Ramsey as Admr. of the said James Culbreath,
I suppose we shall have to accept an allowance
for the Eight months as proposed though we
differ with you as to the evidence afforded by the Certificate from the Executive Office of this State.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Elisha King

Hon L. P. Waldo
Washington City
D C
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Adairsville Ga 6th Jany 1854;
Hon L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir
Inclosed you find a certificate of the Court Meeting the requirements of your report of
the 27th June last in the case of James Culbreath Decd. You will also find a certificate from the Executive Department of Georgia showing that James Culbreath steadfastly done his duty from 20th August 1781, until the final expulsion of the British from this State, which
will prove service after 20th Augt 1781. The British did not finally leave the State until some time after the Surrender of Cornwallis, in this case there has been Eight months service admited, & I hope this Certificate will satisfy you that there should be at least Eight or Twelve months more admited, I hope the Inclosed Documents will satisfy you & that the Representatives of Mr Culbreath are entitled to an allowance of 18 months service.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Elisha King

Hon L. P. Waldo
Washington City
D C
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Executive Department
Milledgeville 20 June 1842

I hereby certify that the home of James Culbreath is entered on a book in this Department containing a list of Certificates "given to the Militia who remained to defend the Country" under an act of 20th August 1781.

Given under my hand and the seal of the Executive Department at the Capitol in Milledgeville the day and year above written.

J. U. Horne
Secry Esc Dept
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Jas. Culbreath aged 81

77   '21           Cap Reed
78      3           Maj Gardner
79      4           Middleton
          6 mo.
80    12 mo.    Clark
81       1  "

Wm. Dawson wit ----- wit
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Brief in the case of James Culbreath, deceased,
Harris County and State of Georgia
act June 7, 1832

Claim, ("original")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

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

The deceased soldier made application in 1842, and proved by record and parole proof three tours of service, in the aggregate amounting to 8 months, but claiming more, the Certificate was not issued.  He died 26th April 1843.  His children now make application, and agree to accept pension for the time specified.  They prove this father's death as above, and that they are his only children by the certificate of a court of record founded when evidence named therein - the marriage is inferered from this certificate.

Pension allowed at the rate of $26.66 2/3 per annum, commencing 4th March 1831, and ending 26th April 1843, ordered to be paid to James M. Ramsey, regularly appointed administrator for distributin among the surviviing children of deceased.

Elisha King _____
agent for the claimant, 
Adairsville Georgia

Examining Clerk, 
R. Giddes
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Wm Dawsons afidafit

(No 6)
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State of Georgia
Harris County
Before me Wm L. Culbreath an acting Justice of the peace In and for Said County. Personally came Before me William Dawson a Revolution
Pentioner aged Eighty two years of age Who Being Duely Sworn deposeth and Saith on Oath the he deponant was well acquainted with James Culbreath aged now Eighty two years of age, and did See the Said James Culbeath under arms in the Floriday Expedition and in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Eight, 1778. also I was with P. Jas Culbreath a soldier at the Seage of Augusta & at the Battle of Stono, S.Ca, and at the Seage at Savannah Ga. and at the Battle of Long Cane. When Col E. Clark was Defeated in S. Carolina
as a Revolution Soldier in defence of the United States as a Militiaman.
Sworn to and Subscribed
Before me this 22nd April 1841
William L Culbreath J.P.
Willm Dawson
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FREE
[Postmarked ZEBULON GA MAY 27]

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[Left Margin]
June 1 '45
Jas Culbreath
Geo. Case
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Zebulon 26 May 1843

Dr Sir
Last winter I forwarded to W. T Colguitt the declaration of James Culbreath, for a pension. 
 Judge Colguitt had left Washington before it arrived and he told me that M. A. Cooper ____
would take out all communication addressed to him which I presume Major Cooper, done and presented to the proper department.
I have not heard either from Major Cooper or the pension office.   If Major Coooper presented the claim to the pension office, Mr. Culbreath would be very glad to know the action of the department upon it.
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It is certainly a well authenticated claim for the State of Georgia So acknowledged the old man to be a great many years since by the granting him land upon consideration of his revolutionary services, Will you Do me the Kindness to answer this, addressed to me at Zebulon Pike County Geo'a, So that I may inform Mr. Culbreath
how his claim stands.
I am yr. obt.
Allen W. Prior

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Comr. Pensions
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Hamilton Geo.
May 22, 1841
June 2
John L. Stephens
Declaration of Jas 
Culbreath for a pension.
S292.
Pension Office.
Jas Culbreath
Georgia
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Hamilton Ga.
May the 22nd 1841.
To the Sect. War
Dr Sir. 
Enclosed you have the declaration of an Old Revolutionary Soldier who is unable to support himself & is desirous of availing himself of the provisions made by Congress &c. You will
please forward him a Certificate directed
to me at Hamilton Harris County Ga. and
oblige yours Respectfully &c
John L. Stephens
N.B. If this is not in form please send me
a form together with Dawsons affidavit as 
another cannot be obtained from himself.
J.L.S.
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.4
Certificate
State of Georgia Harris County
I William J Hudson
Ordinary in & for Said County do hereby Certify that the within and foregoing three Sheets Contains a true Copy of an order, Granting Letters of administration on the Estate of James Culbreth late of said County deceased to James N Ramsey, Esqr, and also a Correct Copy of the Bond given by Said administrator and of his Letters &c the whole making a complete Transcript of the proceedings in the above case,

Given under my hand and seal
of office, this February 7th 1854
Wm J. Hudson Ordinary
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3
Copy of Sellers

Letters of Administration--Printed and for sale at the Hamilton Organ Office.

GEORGIA, Harris County.
By the Court of Ordinary for said County.
WHEREAS James Culbreth
late of said county deceased, died intestate, having while he lived, and at the time of his death, divers estates, real and personal, within the county aforesaid, by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting the administration of the estate of the said deceased, and also a final dismission from the same, to the Court aforesaid does of right belong; and said Court, desiring that the same may be well and truly administered and legally disposed of, doth hereby grant unto James N Ramsey Administrator full power by the tenor of these presents to administer the entire estate, both real and personal, of said deceased, which to him in his lifetime and at the time of his death did belong, and to ask, demand, sue for, recover, and receive the same, and to pay the debts in which the deceased stood bound, so far forth as his assets will extend according to law, and then the balance jointly to pay over to the legal heirs and distributees of the said deceased, and the said James N Ramsey having given bond and security and taken the oath, and performed all other requisites required by law, necessary to his just qualification as Administrator by order of said Court, and by virtue of these presents, ordained, constituted, and appointed Administrator of the whole
estate, both real and personal, of said deceased.
IN WITNESS whereof, I have hereto officially set my Hand and Seal, this 6th day of February
A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Fifty four
Wm J. Hudson ORDINARY
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Copy of Bond          2

Administrators' Bonds - Printed and for sale at the Hamilton Organ office.

GEORGIA, Harris County.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we
James N Ramsey & James Pollard are held and firmly bound unto the Ordinary of said county, and his successors in office, in the just and full
of five Hundred dollars, for the payment of
which, to the said Ordinary, and his successors in office, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, in the whole and for the whole sum, jointly and severally and firmly, by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and subscribed with our hands, this 6th day of February A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty four,
The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That if the above bound James N Ramsey
Administrator of the Estate, Real and Personal, of James Culbreath late of Harris County
deceased, do make a true and perfect inventory of all the Estate, both Real and Personal, of said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of the said James N Ramsey or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for him and the same so made do exhibit unto the Court of Ordinary when he shall be thereunto required, and such estates do well and truly administer according to law, and do make a just and true account of his actings thereon when he shall be thereunto required by said Court, and all the rest of said estate shall be found remaining upon the account of said administration, the same being first allowed by said Court, shall deliver and pay to such person or persons respectively, as are entitled to the same by law; and if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and Testament was made by the said deceased, and the same be proved before the said Court, and the Executors obtain a certificate of the Probate thereof, and the said James N Ramsey
do in such case, if required, render and deliver
up the said Letters of Administration, then this obligation to be void, else remain in full force.
Attested and approved by
Wm J. Hudson }             } James N Ramsey {L.S.}
Ordinary          } Signed } James Pollard      {L.S.}
                                                                    {L.S.}
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Copy of Order,        .1
Georgia          }  Court of Ordinary for
Harris County }  Said County
February Term 1854
Whereas James N Ramsey applies in terms of the Statute in Such Cases made & provided for Letters of administration on the Estate of James Culbreth late of said County deceased, and no objection being made,
It is therefore ordered by the Court
That Letters of administration do issue to said applicant upon his giving Bond for the Sum of Five Hundred Dollars, with James Pollard as his Security,
A true Extract from the Minutes of the Court
February 6th 1854
Wm J. Hudson Ordinary
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Georgia                     }
Meriweather County }
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the state and county aforesaid, Richard Kilpatrick and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he resides within a half a mile of James Culbreath
who resides in Harris County, and this
deponent in Meriweather County, and that said, James Culbreath, in the neighborhood
where he resides, is a man of good character
and is esteemed as a man of veracity, and
is believed to have been a Soldier of the
Revolution, and that this deponent is of
the opinion, that said James Culbreath
did serve as a Soldier of the Revolution
Richard Kilpatrick
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 4th day of May
1842. H.D. Tucker JP

Georgia                     }
Meriweather County }
This is to certify that I am and have been 
acquainted with the above witness Richard Kilpatrick the witness to the above affidavit and that I believe him to [Illegible] to be a man of truth and verasitey the 4th May 1842
H.D. Tucker JP

Georgia Meriwether County
This is to certify that H.D. Tucker is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that full faith and credit ought to be had and Given to his attestation as such Given under my hand and seal of Office this 6th day of May 1842:
John Robinson
Clk Infr Court
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Georgia Meriweather County

Personally appears before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforsaid, Hezekiah Magruder and after being duly sworn, deposeth and faith that he has been acquainted, with James Culbreath for upwards of seventy years, first in Columbia County, Georgia, and now where the said James Culbreath resides in Harris County, that this depoenent being at this time in same neighborhood with said Culbreath, although in a different county, the county of Meriweather and that said Culbreath has always been and is now considered a man of truth and veracity and is generally believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that this d--- is of the opionion said Culbreath was a Soldier of the Revolution.
Sworn to and surrendered before me now this 4th day of May 1842 Hezekiah Magruder.
Georgia 
Meriweather County this is Certify that i amd and have been acquainted with the afore  000 of Hzekiah Magruder to the above appidarri and that I believe him to be a man of truth and veracity 4th May 1842
Hd Tucker
Georgia Meriweather County 
This is to certify that HD Tucker is here acting justs of the Peace in  to --- County.
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State of Georgia

By the Honorable John Houston Esquire, Captain General, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and of the said State.

To all whom these Presents shall come, GREETING:


Know The, That in pPursuance of the Act for opening the Land office, and by virtue of the Powers in me vested, I HAVE, by and with the advice and consent of the Honorable the Executive Council, given and granted, and by these presents, in the name and behalf of the said State, DO give and grand unto James Culbreath his

Heirs and Assings forever, ALL taht tract or parcel of land, containing Five Hundred and seventy five acres, situate, lying and being in the county of Washington in the said State, and butting and bounding on all sides by Vacant Land

On Bonnleys

Having such shape, form, and marks, as appear by a plat of the same hereunto annexe together with all and singular the rights, members, and appurtenances thereof, whatsoever, to the said tract or parcel of land belonging, or in any wise appertaining; and also all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand, of the State aforesaid, of , in, to, or out of the same: TO  HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract or parcel of land, and all singular the premises aforesaid, with their and every of their rights, members, and appurtenances, unto the said James Cullbreath's heirs and assigns, to and their own proper use and behoof forever, in fee simple.

GIVEN, under my hand in council and the Great Seal of the said State, this the eightteenth day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four and in the ninth year of American Independence.

Signed by His Honor the Governor in Council the 10th day of Sept. 1784

J (L J) Houston

Registered the 27th day of Sept. 1784

Secretary of State's Office,
Milledgeville, 21st June 1842

The above is a true copy from the register of grants in this office Book DDD page 330 
Given under my hand and seal of office

JWA Sanford Secretary.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 11th June 1832.

Georgia Pike county
on this, 8th day of June in the year 1842. Personally offered before the Inferior Court of Pike County, and state aford aid James Calbidath a resident of Harris County in said state, aged Eighty-tow years, who being duly sworn deposeth, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of gongress(and of the provision therin contains) of June 7th 1832.
Three months under Major Lewis Guardner who was commanded by General Elbert, marchedbefore Chatham and County Georgia, in the summer of 1778. East Florida and crossed the Saint Marys River with Major Guardner was in no engagement during this tour of duty, and received a discharge but cannot now from the top of memory 'say from I received it; recieved the discharg on the Saint Marys River and returned home to Rutmand County. This tour of duty was as a substitute for Joben Shackleford and the discharge which I recieved has been long since lost. THe next Tour of Service this diplomat performed, was under Captain Charly Crawford to ~~ from Richmond County, and to the best of this diplomats Recollection in the Month of September in the year 1779 and to the best of tis diplomats recollection, he belonged to Col Benjamn Fecc's regiment, and was in the engagement in endeavoring to storm, the City of Savannah then in the
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possession of the British troops, in this Tour
of duty he was out upwards of two months
and General Lincoln of the regular army was the Commander in Chief, marched back to Richmond County, under Captain Crawford and was disbanded, Received no discharge. The next Tour of duty this Deponent served as a Volunteer under Col. Elijah Clark, and was with him at the Siege of Augusta against Col Brown who had the possession of Augusta. Col Clark retreated and left Georgia for the upper part of South Carolina, and this deponent was
with him, and after marching through the mountains, was in an engagement under Col Clark against the British on the waters of a stream called Long Cane Creek, in South Carolina, in this engagement I got cut off from Clark, and then this deponent returned to Richmond County Georgia. We were then and always afterwards known by the name of the Refugees - after this deponents return to Richmond County, this deponent joined Captain William Lucas Company as Volunteer, and he was out with Clark as above stated upwards of three months; this was in the year 1780 to the best of his recollection; after he join Captain Lucas's Company, in Richmond
County he was kept constantly on scout duty
and was in an engagement under Captain
Lucas with the Tories on Spirit Creek in
Richmond County, and was wounded in
my left arm in that engagement; and this applicant remained in Captain Lucas's
Company on scout duty, untill Col. Clark
returned to Georgia, when under Captain
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the application of and underneath fora Pension for (illegible) rendered to the United States as a Revolutionary Soldier, as had be for the Inferior Court of Pike County state of Georgia on the Eighth day of June 1814. Given under my hand and seal of office this 4th day of August 1942

Wiley E Many Lane 
Inferior Court Pike County
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Interrogatory

1. When and where were you born?
 Ans.  I was born in Macklinburg County, Virginia

2.  Have you any records of your age?
Ans.  I have no record of any age.
3.  Where were living when called into the services.  Where have you lived since, and when  (illegible) you now live?
Ans.  I have lived in Richmond County Georgia, Columbia County, and now reside in Harris County Georgia.
4.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with you, and the troopes where you served, and such continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect?
Ans: I can name General Lincoln and(Count?) Pulaskis and I belonged to Col en Fews Regiment to the best of my recollection.
5th. Did you receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Ans.  I did receive a discharge at the Saint Marys River in 1778.  as before stated, but cannot note from whom, which is long since lost.
6th.  State the name of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your veracity and good character and their belief of your
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serving as a soldier of the Revolution of Am.  I can name Thadias Jones, Elisha Frammill, Hiziriah Magruder, and Richard Kilpatrick.
  And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant, was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and they come to this opinion from the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations furnished by the War Department,and from the affidavits marked 1.2.3.4. and from Capt. Wilking's discharge from Militia duty no. 5 and affidavits no 8 and that we are alas of the opinion that he is from his personal appearance Eighty-two years of age.

(Jus. Pifiafes?)
Justice Inerior Court Pike County Ga.
David M Bloodworth
Justice Inferior Court Pike County Ga.
Samuel Mitchell

I. Wiley E. Maugham  Clerk of the Inferior court of
Georgia Pike County Court of Pike County do hereby certify that the foregoing sheets, contains of the original proceedings in the case of
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The application of James Culbreath for a pension for duty rendered to the United States as a Revolutionary Soldier (??) had before the Inferior Court of Pike County state of Georgia on the Eighth day of June 1842.  Given under my hand and seal of office this 4th day of August 1842.  Wily E. Maugham Clerk Inferior Court Pike County