Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 8014, for Edmun Lashley, Georgia
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( 8- 1776) 
SERVICE 
Ga.  
Lashley , Edmun  (or Edmund )   
Delilah 
NUMBER 
W 8014
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Georgia 30919
Edmund Lashley
[most illegible}
Arrears to the 4th of  [illegible] $165.00
Semi-anl allowance [illegilbe] 15.00
$180.00

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7 1832

Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 4 March 1838
Age notified 13 Decd 1838
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5953 Georgia  Delilah Lashley widow of Edmund Lashley who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars __ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848. Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of July 1852 and sent to Mr. B . Scott Esq. Present   Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848 , Page 211, Vol. 3
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Davis Martin Esq Atty  at law  ( ? Georgia ...)
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State of Georgia
Pike County
[remaining is faded  and illegible]
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[faded and illegible]
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[faded and illegible]
Wm O Kindrick JJC
William Anderson CJC
John N Mangham JJC

State of Georgia
Pike County
[faded and illegible]
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[faded and illegible]
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[faded and illegible]
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Edmd Lashley
Geo
Admit as private
9 mo $30
H Miller Capt
 Col. Casewell


Hon C E Haynes
HR
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that John P Hensler & Nathan Bryant, who has signed the preceeding certificate, are residents of the county of Pike and state of Georgia and that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit
Jno C Mangham JJC
J B Williamson JJC 
Andrews Battle JST
I Hugh G Johnson clerk of the Inferior court of Pike County Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the court aforesaid in the matter of the application of Edmond Lashly for a Pension.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal, there being no seal office, this 3rd day of June 1833  Hugh G Johnson JS
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Questions
1 Where & in what year were you born?
Ans I was born at a place called Cabin Point in he state of Virginia, on 30th January

2  Have you any said Record of your age? and if so where is it?
Ans I Have none and the information I have of my age, was derived from my parents

3rd Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
Ans  In Wake County North Carolina and state of Georgia and now in the county of Pike State of Georgia
th4 How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom
Ans   As a drafter militia man

5th state the names of some of some of the Regular officers who were with you with the troops where you served: such continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general
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circumstances of your service
Ans General Gates of the regular army, and Captains Trent Blake and Chamblis &  Lieutenant Joseph Peoples & Ensign William Amas Col Little, Col Caswell Ho of the militia and I have already stated the General circumstances of my service
6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans I did, By Captain Trent to the best of his recollection, and one by Col Richard Caswell and a verbal one by Col Wootan

7 state the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a Revolutionary soldier
Ans  I can name the names of John P Hensler and Nathan Bryan
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Edm Lashley
Ga
Adt as private
Am $30
[illegible] Cap
[illegilbe]

Hon Ray
HR

City of Washington
District of Columbia
I Charles Eater Haynes a member of the House of Representative of the United States from the State of Georgia hereby certify that Hugh G Johnson who has attended the [illegible faded] [illegible] is to the best of my knowledge & belief clerk of the Inferior court of Pike County Georgia and his signature genuine
Given under my hand this 10th day of December 1836
CE Haynes
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Declaration
In or to obtain to the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
On this the third day of June 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Inferior court of Pike County State of Georgia Edmund Lashley a resident of said county of Pike and state of Georgia aged seventy years to being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1833  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated  That he entered the service of the United States sometime about the fifteenth of August seventeen Hundred and Seventy nine, in Wake County state of North Carolina as a drafted militia man under Captain Benjamin Blake and Lieutenant Joseph Peoples and Ensign Williamson & ws marched from Wake County N Carolina to Johnson county N Carolina and from Johnson county down to a town called Kingston in said state where we joined Colonel Richard Caswell who where we were stationed untill our term of service expired; This was a three months tour of duty and, and this applicant was discharged at Kingston
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and received a Written discharge from Col Richard Caswell which discharge this applicant kept upwards of twenty years, but which is now lost and which was dated about the fifteenth of November Seventeen Hundred and twenty nine
The next tour of duty this applicant performed was as a drafted militia man in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, was drafted in Wake County North Carolina under Captain Chambliss (Christian name not recollected) for a three month tour of duty, marched under Captain Chambliss from Wake County in N Carolina to the Cheraw Hills in South Carolina marched to Camden was in the engagement against Lord Cornwallis on the fifteenth of August seventeen hundred and Eighty at Camden from Camden marched in all sorts of order but good order to Wake County North Carolina, where we were called together again, and discharged by Col Thomas Wootan, about the first of October of that year has no recollection of receiving a written discharge from Col Thos Wootan to the best of his recollection the discharge was
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verbal, Captain Chambliss not being present, he being at that time a prisoner of war, having been taken at Camden  This was also a Three months tour of duty and commanded to the best of his recollection about the first of July seventeen hundred and eighty Thomas Wootan was the colonel of the militia of Wake County in North Carolina
On or about the fifteenth day of February seventeen hundred and eighty one was again drafted in Wake County North Carolina for three months more under Captain John Trent, and Joseph Peoples was Lieutenant and William Amas was Ensign, (the same persons that served in the same capacity with as under captain Benjamin Blake) marched from Wake County to a place near Guilford Courthouse where we designed to reinforce General Greene but the Battle was fought by Green on 15th March of that year, where we had arrived within six or seven miles, and was in hearing distance but could not join in time before the battle was over from Guilford courthouse marched to a on Deep River called Ramsours Mill where we were put under the command of a Colonel William Little, where
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we were stationed a short time from Ramsours mill marched up to Hillsboro, under Colonel Little where we ma alyen untill our term of service expired and where we were discharged Received a written discharge and to the best of my recollection it was signed by Captain Trenton which has been lost long since
This applicant states that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service And that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state 
Sworn to and and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court
Jno C Mangham JC Edmund Lashley
J B Williamson JJP
Andrews Battle JJC
We John P Henler & Nathan Bryant residing in Pike County state of Georgia hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edmond Lashley, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be as seventy years of age  That he is reputed and believed in the settlement or neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day & year aforementioned  
Jno C Mangham JJC Nathan X Bryant his mark
JB Williamson JC   JP Henler
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Edmund Lashley Ga Act 7 June
1832 of 30 pension what [illegible faded]
paid?  JFC Triplett
Pension Office
Aug 29 1832}  pd to 4th March 1840 
BLB
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Georgia Pike
County} I [illegible faded] certify that I am [illegible faded][illegible faded] socially acquainted with [illegible faded] Sarah Powell and that I believe he is [illegible faded]
[illegible faded]
In testimony where of I hereunto set my [illegible faded] officially the day & date first written
Jas Hilsman JJC P C Ga
State of Georgia
Pike County
SS I Wiley E Mangham Clerk for this Pike county state of Georgia do hereby certify that James Hilsman whose name appears assigned to the above and foregoing affidavit and certificate is and was at the time of assigning the law as an acting Justice of the Inferior court for this Pike County state of Georgia duly commissioned and qualified by his purporting authority and that his signatures purporting to be his are his genuine signature and that full faith and credit & should be given him as such.
In testimony which I have affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this sixteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty seven
Wiley C Mangham CBCPC
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Pension office
Jno H Kilgore Esq
Monroe
Walton Co
Ga
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Pension Office 
November 23d 1846
Sr
The papers in the [illegible faded]

I am 
Very Respectfully
Your obt Sevt
G W Crump
John H Kilgore
Monrow
Walton Co
Ga
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[illegible faded]
that satisfactory evidence has been [illegible faded] in open court that Edmund Lashley who was a Revolutionary [illegible faded] on the Georgia Roll did on the  [illegible faded]
[illegible faded]
Miles G Dobbins JJC
Josiah B Beale JJC
Jason Burr JJC
[illegible faded]
James S Wood CJC
[illegible faded]
James S Hook Clk JC

[stamped SPALDING COUNTY]
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Addl evi in case of Delilah Lashley wid of Edmd

B Scott Present
Hon E Heath Esq
Comm of Pensions Washington
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No 9165
No 764 under
Act 17 June 1844
Delilah Lashley
Ga
3 March 1843
17 Jun 1844
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Monroe Walton County Ga
November 9th 1846
Dear Sir
Enclosed I have you the Declaration of Delila Lashley widow of Edmund Lashley  Please answer me if the services of her husband is satisfactory
Yours Respectfully
John H Kilgore
JL Edwards Esq
Washington
DC
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No 9165
No 764 under
Act 17 June 1844
Delilah Lashley
Ga
3 March 1843
17 Jun 1844

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pen
Washington DC
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Washington DC
March 6th 1832
Sir
I enclose herewith additional testimony in the case of Delilah Lashly in support of her claim for a revolutionary pension & respectfully request that the case may be taken at & disposed of
Very respectfully
Your ob sevt
Wm B Scott
Sgt
Col Jas E Heath
Com of Pensions
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Augt 1st 1851
Relt to pow: atty
from Mrs. Lashley
Jo S B Luxe
DN Marlin
Griffin
Georgia

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Griffin Ga July 25th 1851
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir L Blanchard [illegible] of your city has been furnished with a power of attorney [illegible] agency and I have just [illegible] unfavorable 
to his character as a trustworthy man I have no doubt it will be [illegible] 
as Mrs Lashley believes [illegible] character [illegible]
will [illegible] that time  If you have not 
paid [illegible] in that case please def till further 
arrangements [illegible] and if you have 
paid over in that case please let me know
it as  [illegible] was neglected to give me any
information whatever  Delilah Lashley is a 
claimant [illegible] Will you also 
to an active reliable agent of your city who 
will attend to pension claims 
Respectfully yours
[illegible]
DS you will please consider the above
as confidential 
[illegible]
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Griffin Nov 5 1851
[illegible faded]

Dear Sir
Enclosed you will find the [illegible] of Sarah Lashey  & [illegible] also
[illegible]
[illegible] testimony for [illegible] Lashley case
I first [illegible] Georgia [illegible]
on coming from 

[illegible faded]
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[illegible faded]
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WB Scott Nov 7 51
Let W B Scott Jany 29/52
Sarah June 21 1832



3d March 1840
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V No. 9115 Delilah Lashley , G. (underscored ) Letter to Jn .H. Kilgore Nov. 23. '46.  set to B.P. Beardin June 3'47 Sec letter of D.N. Martin relatin to L Blanchard Jus (?)  among the papers 3 March '43 Act 7th July 1838
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[ State of Georgia Pike County ] SS.  I Wiley E. Mangham Clerk of the Inferior Court for this Pike County  State of Georgia it being a court of ..(illegible) do hereby certify that Benson Roberts whose name appears assigned to the within and foregoing declaration and certificate concerning the same is and was at the tie of assigning the same an acting Justice of the Inferior Court for this Pike County State of Georgia duly commissioned and qualified by the proper authority and that the signatures purporting to be his are his genuine signatures and that full faith and credit hereto be given him as such . I further certify that the within and foregoing are the original proceedings of the Inferior Court afore stated in the matter of Mrs. Delilah Lashley's Declaration for a pension and certified to by me agreeable to the order of said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this seventh day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six.  Wiley E. Mangham ( signed ) C.I.C.oP.C.
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I further certify that in consequence of the age & bodily  infirmity of the Delilah Lashley is the reason likely she was not compelled to appear in our Court this 27th (?Aug) 1846. Benson Roberts ( signed) C.I.C. I further certify that  ..warrant now attached by comm... ( illegible) the pension certificate of Delilah Lashley mentioned in the foregoing Declaration this 27th August 1846 ...(illegible) whereof I have hereto set my hand officially  Benson Roberts ( signed / sealed ) J.J.C. [ State of Georgia Pike County ] SS. Official Superior Court  This 7th day of September 1848 the declaration of Mrs. Delilah Lashley for a pension under the act of third March 1843 and 17th June 1844 . It being duly Certified to by Benson Roberts a Justice of the Inferior Court for this Pike County  State of Georgia on this 27th day of August 1846 it having been subscribed to the Court it doth approve of his acts and proceedings in the matter of said declaration for a pension and further we the Court is of opinion that her above stated claim is just and hereby require the Clerk of this Court to certify to the so proceedings. Jas Eppinger ( signed ) J.J.C.P.C., Samuel Mitchell( signed ) J.J.C., ( third signature illegible) J.J.C.P.C., Benson Roberts ( signed ) J.C. Attest Wiley G. Mangham ( signed )  CICPCo.
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Brief in the case of Delilah Lashley, wid of Edmund. County and State of Georgia act * 3 Mch 43, 22 June 44 & 2 Feby 48.  Claim , ("original ") Proof exhibited , (if original. ) ___. Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls ? If either, state the substance. Husband was a pensioner Parole order of marriage ( If for increase.) Has additional evidence been file since the admission of the claim ? If so, what ? ______.  Name and residence of Agent  Wm B. Scott Present. Kirby Examing Clerk.
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Payments to be made at Savannah Geo. by Cash of ...(illegible)  Agent for paying Pension  ___from the Agency of  Georgia. Recorded in the Pension Office in Book C Vol. 6 Page __ By D.D. Addison ___ Clerk.
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I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 , Edmund Lashley of the State of Georgia who was a Private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty dollars and ___ cents per annum during his natural life , commencing on the 4th of March 1834, and payable semi - annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. Given at the War Office of the United States , this 24th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty six .  B .F. Butler ( signed )Secretary of War Ad interim { Examined and Countersigned}  J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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( vertical on page )[  May 26/49 Respy case of Susannah Florence  .....  ( illegible ) & Robt. Gilmore case of Delilah Lashley ]     -------------- Paid 50  J. L. Edwards  Comr. Pensions Washington City
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Monroe, Walton Co., Ga. May 21st '47                 
J. L. Edwards  Dear sir enclosed I send you Mrs. Susannah Florence's papers & .... ( illegible ) Delila Lashley's turned over to me by their request  Mr. Kilgore informing them that he could not proceed further for them at present and as I have but little experience in such business.  Please send me a circular of instructions together with the forms . I shall expect an answer upon as it is practicable. Yours very,  respectfully  R. P. Beardin ( signed )
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No 9,693 Delilah Lashley wid of Edmund Georgia  act 3 Mch 43 ,17 Jun 44, & 2 Feb '48  $30 per ann  Wm . B. Scott Present.
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Treasury Department , Second Comptroller's Office  December 7th , 1838. Sir : Under the  act of the 6th of April , 1838, entitled : " An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners , and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Edmund Lashley , a Pensioner on the  Roll of the  Savannah , Geo. Agency , at the rate of Thirty Dollars and __ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department , from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th day of March ,1838. Respectfully yours,  Albion K. Parris ( signed ) Comptroller.  To the Commissioner of Pensions Present.
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Apl 21 -52 ( underscored ) Addl evi : in case of Delilah Lashley (underscored)  Wm B. Scott  Present
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Jas  E. Heath                                                  Comr. of Pensions                    Washington                           
                                                 April 20th , 1852 Sir ;  I send herein some more testimony in ..(illegible ) the claim of Delilah Lashley  ,& respectfully request , that her case my be taken up  & decided  forthwith , as it has been a long time  unfounded, for further proof. respectfully  your  obt svt Wm B. Scott (signed)
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August 16,1851 Rel. to case of Delilah Lashly  ...Triplett wid. of Edmd.  W. B. Scott   Washington  D.C.
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Jas E. Heath  Esq          Washington  D.C.       
Comr. of Pensions         Augt. 15th 1851  Sir : Having been recently appointed the attorney , in the case of Delilah Lashly , the widow of Edm'd Lashly , request that you will be pleased to have the case in here etc. for examination in order that I may be informed if the proof is sufficient to entitle her to a pension. From an examination of the papers, find that he was a pensioner, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum that his service to entitle him to that rate of Pension , is not questioned, the matter now is ...(illegible ) to the , .... (illegible) is the proof of marriage , to entitle the widow , no record proof is filed, or can any be obtained , but there in affidavit of respectable witness , which it seems in my mind , should be satisfactory under the
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existing  circumstances of the case. I am  Sir  respectfully  yr obt svt.  Wm B. Scott  ( signed ) attorney
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Mr. Lashley
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State of North Carolina}
Wake County}
I James T. Marriott, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid, do hereby certify that I have made diligent search in my office for the marriage bond of Edmund Lashley, and the same cannot be found.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name at Office in Raleigh this 27th March 1852.
James T. Marriott, Clerk
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Examiner
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... (illegible ) Ga. 13 Jany 1831. Gentlemen Permit me to request your services as member of Congress on behalf of Mrs. Delilah Lashley, the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, who has made application to the War Department to be allowed the pay allowed widows of that class. I obtained for husband Edmond Lashley a Pension which he drew several years, before his death. He has been dead some ten years. I then made a application in behalf of his widow, which application has been unsuccessful.  Her application with the evidence to support  it are of file I presume in the department, and my object in addressing you is that of the rigid Rules of the department, will not allow her claim, yet the circumstances , and evidence surely must be amply sufficient, to allow her claim , to be recognized by an act , of Congress : Mrs. Lashley is undoubtly entitled as a widow of a Revolutionary Soldier  : I have known her and her husband in this County for about 17 years. I obtained her husband's Pension  in this County , and I have known some of Mrs. Lashley's brothers from my earliest infancy , Capt. John Olive ,and Berry Olive, both of whom lived and died in Columbia County Ga., Mrs. Lashley's brothers. They Olive family were all wealthy except Mrs. Lashley , and very respectable . Mrs. Andrew J. Miller of Augusta , is a daughter of Capt. John Olive & niece of Mrs. Lashley I suppose is ninety odd years of age, and was the oldest of the Olive family she is remarkably old infirm  and poor , and is supported
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as one of the poor under the law, in this county  that her claim is a meritorious one there is no doubt but the difficulty of coming up to the rigid rules  of the department has heretofore acted as a bar to claim ; Perhaps even the department on a review of the claim & evidence to support it , may be disposed to allow it a more favorable consideration & that she is entitled in equity there is no doubt. May I be permitted to ask of you gentlemen , your attention to her claim , in such manner and form that would be most likely to attain the end desired. I am yr obt servt  Allen W. Prior ( signed )   To reps  Allen F. Owen &  Hugh A. Haralson  Esqrs                                         
Senate Chamber 6 Dec. 1851  Allen W. Prior , I certify to be a gentleman of high character - forthwith , ... (illegible )  & integrity- deserved & commands the utmost confidence - I have since born many years. Wm C. Dawson ( signed ) ( vertical notes ) [ ...( Illegible ) Prior, Allen in Mrs. Lashley case ]
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Revolution
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 8014
Delilah Lashley
widow
Edmund Lashley
Pvt.  [illegible] 

Act:  [Illegible]
Index:-Vol. A, Page 417

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Delia Lashley   (notes under name illegible ) Ex by (illegible )
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[ State if Georgia Pike County ] Given all men by these presents that I Delila Lashley of said County do hereby constitute and  appoint William B. Scott of Washington City  District of Columbia my true and lawful  agent and Attorney in fact to attend to and prosecute and recover my claim as the widow of Edmund Lashley who was a Pensioner of the United States on the Georgia Roll as a Revolutionary  solder upon the the Government of the United States or before the Congress of the United States for my Pension as the widow of the said Edmund Lashley the foregoing Power to be irrevocable. I hereby give full power to my said Attorney to examine all papers on file the better to enable him to find out what further proof is necessary to the establishing said claim for a Pension hereby ratifying and confirming  all that my said Attorney may do by these presents and I do hereby by these  presents revoke and countermand all former  powers made by me to one L. Blanchard ( ?  Tru) of the City of Washington district of Columbia and signed by me on or about the  tenth day of May Eighteen hundred and fifty one and signed in presence of David N. Martin and Benson Roberts J.J.C. in the  County and State aforesaid . Given under my hand and seal this the 30th day of July 1851.  Signed, Sealed and delivered in the presence of (her mark X ) Delilah Lashley ( signed / sealed )  David  N. Martin  ( signed )  W. P. Tyler  ( signed ) J. Peace
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State of Georgia}
Pike Couty}
Personally appeared before me Delilah Lashley Claimant for a Revolutionary pension as the widow of Edmund Lashley deceased who being duly sworn says she is the [crossed out] solely intended in said claim for a pension and that she bona fide claims [illegible] said pension
her mark [hand drawn X] Delilah Lashley

Sworn to and subscribed before me and I here by testify that said Delilah Lashley is solely ^ and directly interested as claimant for a pension as the widow of Edmund Lashley
July 30th 1851 
W. P. Tyler J. Peace

State of Georgia}
Pike County}
I Wiley E. Maugham Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County & State aforesaid do hereby Certify that William P Tyler [illegible] signature appears above & to the foregoing Power of Attorney as a subscribing witness is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and qualified and that the above and foregoing signatures are his [remainder illegible]
Given under my hand and official Signature and Seal of our said Court at Zebulon in said County and State this the 30th day of July A. D. 1851
Wiley E. Maugham C. I. C. P. C.
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Document is a letter; faded and mostly illegible
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State of Georgia}
Pike County}  SS
On this the seventeenth day of May. 1851 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court duly authorised [authorized] by law to administer oaths in and for the County aforesaid Delila Lashley who being duly sworn says she is the party directly interested in the claim for a pension set forth in a former declaration
her mark [hand drawn X] Delika Lashley

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of May 1851  And I do hereby certify that the above named Delila Lashley is directly interested in the pension claim above refered [referred] to and is the identical person who made the former Declaration above mentioned
Benson Roberts
Justice of the Infer. Court

State of Georgia}
Pike County}
I Wiley E. Maugham Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Benson Roberts whose signature appears above and to the foregoing is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Inferior court in and for said County duly authroized to administer oaths for general purposed - and that the above foregoing signatures are his genuine signatures -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Zebulon in said County & State this the 19th day of May 1851 -
Wiley E. Maugham C. I. C. P. C.
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9247
Georgia
Delilah Lashley
widow of Edmund
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 22d day of July 1852 and sent to Wm B. Scott Esq

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in book A
Vol. 2, Page 174
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[State of Georgia Pike County ] SS. I James Hilsman an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County  state aforesaid . Be it known that on this the thirteenth day of February  A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty seven personally appeared before me Mrs. Sarah Powell a resident of this County  aged sixty five years back who being first duly sworn  according to law as she on her oath make the following statements that the she was born and raised in Columbia County  Georgia and about the year Eighteen hundred and eight or nine this deponent Sarah Powell became acquainted with  Elijah Lashley  the reputed son of Edmund Lashley  and his wife Delila the said Elijah testify having left is parents in North Carolina and came to Georgia  Columbia County and lived with his grandfather on Mother's side , James Olive and same  and sometimes afterward the said Edmund Lashley and wife Delila together with the  balance of the family  removed from the State of  North Carolina as this deponent understands and settled in Columbia  County Georgia neighbor to this deponent  remained there several years and moved off to the frontier part of Georgia leaving this deponent  still residing in Columbia County  and in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty  one this deponent removed to Hitt (? Pitt ) County  Georgia and remained here some  ? 6  years them some moved to this  Pike County  Georgia and this deponent then other family the same  Delila Lashley residing in this County  Her husband the said Edmund Lashley
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having since died and left the said Delila his widow, the said Delila is still residing in this County and remains the widow of the said Edmund Lashely. This deponent s reason for noticing about the time she became acquainted with said Elijah Lashely  is by a reference to her children  again the said Elijah having built a chimney for this deponent and her husband she became more intimately acquainted with him & that he was a man grown in size  when she first became acquainted with him & gives it as her opinion that the said Edmund Lashley  & his wife Delila were married several years previous to the first day of January  Seventeen hundred and seventy four this deponent judges from the ages of the said Edmund Lashley and Delila married but on the contrary recollects distinctly to have known James Olive the father of the said Delila  say that Edmund Lashley had married his daughter Delila in the  State of North Carolina previous to this deponents acquaintance with the said Edmund  & Delila Lashley. The above & foregoing statement on form to best of this deponents recollection. Sworn & subscribed to before  me this 13th February  1847 .   ( all signatures illegible )