Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,555, William Finley, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md. 

Finley, William
Nancy

NUMBER
R 3,555

CONTENTS
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[ILLEGIBLE]
Thomas Finley was born December the 21 1792
Mary Finley was born February the 20 1795
Susanna Finley was born April the 13 1797
Elizabeth Finley was born June the 12 1801
Richard Finley was born March the 11 1803 and deceased March the 12 1803
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Nancy Tredway was born 5th of October 1773
William Finly Sinior
Decest the 17th of February 
(ILLEGIBLE] 1815
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United States of America 
A Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of an act of congress passed July 4th 1838 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
widow

State of Tennessee }
Carroll County         }  Personally appeared Nancy Finley before me Cantrul B. Rogers, an acting justice of the peace in and for said county and made oath in due form of law in order to obtain the benefit of an act of congress passed July 4th 1838 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows That she is the widow of William Finley a private in the Army of the Revolutionary War, that he served three campaigns as a substitute once a volunteer and drafted that he was in the battle of Germantown and Brandywine that he then resided in the state of Maryland and was a part of his time under General Wayne. That she does not remember his officers names there & she has often heard him speak of them and other officers of the Army so that she now cannot say the particular officers under whom he served that she thinks his discharges was left in Baltimore together with other papers as she was informed that she was not married to the said William Finley during his service but was married to him on the 15th day of August 1789 and therefore have to depend on her recollection of his words for information
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That her marriage took place prior to the 1st day of January 1794 To wit at the time above stated That she then resided on Holston River near the line of what was then called new Virginia and Tennessee that she now does not know whether the place of her marriage was in Virginia or Tennessee after the line was established as she together with her husband shortly afterward moved to Robertson County in the state of Tennessee that she is illiterate and has to depend entirely on her recollections for dates only her husband placed the date of her marriage with him in a book kept by him to which she has referance for dates but the facts set forth of her own knowledge she well remembers that she is seventy six years of age the 6th day of October last. she further declares that she well remembers that she was not quite sixteen years of age when she was married and must depend on the rolls of the war department for positive proof of service That she has been a widow ever since her husbands death who died on the 17th day of February 1815 and is now a widow sworn to and subscribed to before me this 4th day of April 1860

Nancy Finley her mark
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I Cantrul B. Rogers an acting justice of the peace in and for said County do certify Nancy Finley the subscriber to the foregoing declaration was duly sworn and did subscribe to the same that she is unable to attend Court by reason of old age and other infirmities I farther certify that she is a woman of good character and undoubted veracity that she is personally known to me that she is a woman of good mind considering her age

Given under my hand and seal this 4th day of April 1850 C.B. Rogers JP
a justice of the peace of Carroll County & State of Tennessee

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I Cantrul B Rogers an acting justice of the peace do hereby certify that a Dictionary titled Dyches dictionary purporting to be the record of the marrige and ages of William Finley and Nancy Finley the subscriber to the foregoing declaration was duly examined by me and the leaf cut out with my own hand, as it stated[?]. Also the letters purporting to the date of the printing on the Title pages is in letters as follows, viz, MDCCLXXVII. Given under my hand and seal this 4th day of April 1850 C.B. Rogers J.P. a justice of the peace of Carroll County & state of Tennessee
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I Young W. Allen clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that William H. Carson and Cantrul B. Rogers Esqrs. whose names appeares to the foregoing certificates are and was acting Justices of the peace at the time of signing the same, duly Elected commissinied and quallified and that there signitures is genuine as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all of there official acts

In testamoney whare of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in the Town of Huntingdon this 13th day of April AD 1850

Y.W. Allen Clerk of Carroll County Court
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

Personally appeared William Finley aged fifty nine years this 23rd day of January last before me Cantrul B Rogers an acting justice of the peace in and for said County and made oath in dur form of law that the leaf purporting to be the records of the marriage of William Finley and Nancy Tredway was the property of his father and that on page the 2nd is in the handwriting of his father William Finley was deased[?] and the reason why he knows it to be so is that he has often seen his father write and that the leaf is extracted from an old Dictionary called Dyche Dictionary and that the date purporting to be the date of the printing is in the letters MDCCLXXVII that said dictionary has been in his possion[?] ever since his death which took place on the 17th of February 1815. Also the records purporting to be the ages of his children is in his fathers hand write receipt[?], the age of Richard of which he is not positive in whose writing it is and that the same has been considered the true record of their marriage that on page 1st the first or two upper lines is in his fathers William Finleys hand writing
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And he farther declares that he heard his father say that he served three campaigns and was in the battle of German Town and at the battle of Brandy Wine and he believes that he served part of his time under General Anthony Wayne that he thinks that he served a part of his time under Sullivan as he was a great favorite with his father. the other officers he cannot remember although he well remembers to have seen a solder of the revolution and his father William Finley meet and heard both speak of their service together but his name he now cannot remember the length of the terms of service he cannot now remember That Nancy Finley the subscriber to the foregoing declarations is his mother that he believes that she is a woman of sound mind considering her advanced age and being illiterate at the same time that she has been a widow ever since the death of her husband and is now a widow

Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 4th day of April 1850 William Finley
Cantrul B. Rogers J.P. an acting Justice of the for Carroll County & state of Tennessee

I Cantrul B. Rogers an acting justice of the peace do certify that I am personally acquainted with William Finley that he is a man of good character and undoubted veracity

Given under my hand and seal this 4th day of April 1850.
C. B. Rogers JP
an acting Justice of Carroll County & state of Tennessee
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

Personally appeared William Bird aged about fifty seven years Before William H. Carson an acting justice of the peace in and for said County and made oath in due form of law that he is personally acquainted with Nancy Finley and William Finley deceased that they lived together as man and wife that William Finley was reputed as a revolutionary soldier the reason why he remembers that he was such that he William Bird subscribed in the place of John Bird and was about leaving home together with his son William Finley for the Army of the United States and William Finley deceased stated to me that he had rendered considerable service in the revolutionary war that he advised us not to take furloughs to visit places outside of the lines of the Army that it was always believed that William Finley did render service in the war of the revolution that he was a man of good character and undoubted veracity that he died in the winter of the battle at New Orleans which he believes was in 1815 that he has been acquainted with Nancy Finley who applies for a Pension that she is a woman of good character and undoubted truth that she has been a widow ever since the death of her husband and is now a widow sworn to and subscribe before me this the 6th day of April AD 1850
Wm H Carson, J.P. seal
William Bird his mark
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County
I William H. Carson as acting the Subscriber William Bird is a credible witness and was duly sworn (died) did Subscribe to the [illegible] the day and date above written
Wm. H. Carson 
JP for Carroll County 
JP
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Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section
AWF/eel
June 13, 1929
Mrs. M.A.Christopher 
1224 Stratford
Kansas City, Missouri
Madam: 
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.3555, it appears that Nancy Finley applied for pension April 4, 1850, while residing in Carroll County, Tennessee, and alleged that her husband, William Finley, while residing in Baltimore, Maryland, served three tours as a private with the Maryland Troops, was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown; a part of the time he served under General Wayne.
The claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of service. 
It also appears in said claim that William Finley married August 15, 1789, in Sullivan County, Tennessee, Nancy Treadway, who was born October 5, 1773, and when married was living on the Holston River near the Virginia and Tennessee line. 
The soldier died February 17, 1815.
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Their children were:
William born January 23, 1791.
Thomas " December 21, 1792.
Mary " February 20, 1795.
Susanna " April 13, 1797.
Elizabeth " June 12, 1801.
Richard " March 11, 1803.
Died March 12, 1803.

Respectfully,

Earl D. Church
Commissioner.
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [Lined out]
3555
REJECTED
P.O.
Nancy Finley
Service:
Enlisted:  , 18
Discharged:  , 18

Application filed:  . 18
Alleges:
The printed list of 1852 shows reasons for suspension.

Re-enlisted: "For further
proof and specification"
Attorney:

Recognized.  Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for  , 18
1929. June 13. Hist to Mrs
M. A. Christopher [illegible]
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No. 14. 148
Nancy Finley
widow of William

Tennessee
Let R. H. Hawthorn Nov 9/50
Service May 19/51
Hawthorn & Davidson
May 26/53
Hawthorn [illegible]

Act 7 July 1838.
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14.148
Nancy Finley
Widow of William 
Tenn

R. H. Hawthorn Nov 9/50(line drawn through)
Same May 19/51
Hawthorne & Davidson(line drawn through)
May 26/53(line drawn through)
Same Sep 21 1853(line drawn through)
Same Nov 17 1852(line drawn through)

3555

Act July 7 1838
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[Envelope]
DEPARTEMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Hawthorne + Davidson
Camden, Tenn.

Aug. 10, 1853.
Letter in care of Nancy Finley
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Camden Ten     Free
July 30

L P Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Camden Tennessee July the 30th 1853
Dear Sir
We send you
the additional evidence in the case of
Nancy Finley showing you that
no record
of a public nature can be obtained the [illegible]
parties Hawthorne took the evidence first and
has taken pains to get the record if any existed
but was informed by the Clerk of the County
Court of Sullivan County Ten. that no such
record was in his office and affidavits
before this were mailed and before
said certificate
was mailed directed to the Pension office
and yet none was ever recorded in your
office although various pension agents in
Washington (D.C.) to place the claimant on the
Pension Roll is writing to Mrs Finley
that they have seen and examined her claim
and can obtain if we have their letters

Your Obt Servts
Hawthorne & Davidson

No evidence enclosed in this case
Adams
Aug 10/53
The case of Martha Rider Act 1853 taken out
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Camden Ten Tonll Nov 5

L R.  Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D C

Hawthorn & Davidson
Camden, Tenn

Nov 12, 1853 
(unreadable) 
in case of Nancy Finley widow of William
Carroll County, Tenn
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Camden Ten
Oct 18th 1853
Sir
Enclosed we send
you some additional proof in the case Nancy
Finley We hope will sufficient to examine
her case We have no doubt that the records
of your office will afford proof of her
husband's services

Hawthorne & Davidson
LP Waldo Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Jan. 20 1853
Addl evi in case of
Nancy Finley widow 
of [illegible]

Cole
Hawthorn & Davidson
Camden Tenn.

Camden Ten
June 10
J.E. Heath Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Camden Tennessee June 8th 1862
Sir
Enclosed we[?] send you some additional proof in the case of Mrs. Nancy Finley we hope that it will be sufficient to admit the family friend of William Finley to be evidence. It is very hard to get the clerks to certify properly for few of them understands the requisitions and technicalities of the law and, what way to make every point clear. Please refer to Jacob Smothers case for land Warrant as we have sent to you a certificate from 
the clerk of the County Court specifying that Mr. B. Haywood was a justice of the peace for a long time. and the certificate attached to Mr. Smothers claim referred to the genuiness of 
Mr. Haywoods signature if it will [illegible] do point out the objection you will please point out the objection [illegible] you do not tend [illegible] Warrant of [illegible].
Thomas Mothershed
Your Obt Servt
Hawthorne S.[?] Davidson
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Supplemental Declaration for widows Pension
revolutionary claim
United States of America
State of Tennessee 
(County of Carroll ⎬ On this 8 day of December A.D 1862. Personally appeared Nancy Finley widow of William Finley deceased who first being duly sworn according to law says on her oath that she yet continues the widow of said William Finley and was married to the said William Finley at the time set forth in a former declaration by her that her husband served as set forth in said declaration
that her agent informs her that he has made diligent search for the record that her agents name is Robert H. Hawthorn by letters of enquiry and has been answered by the clerks of several Counties knowing that Counties might have been divided and believing that no public records exists she prays  that her family record be admitted as evidence of her
marriage already filed in the pension office
under the act of Congress 1838. that she has
none of her husbands original discharges that she depends on the rolls of the Maryland line 
for proof of his service as a soldier of the revolutionary war that she believes he serviced three years one of these tours as a substitute that from the prior evidence already filed in the Pension office she prays that it may be admitted as evidence of proof of marriage together with her family record and the several muster rolls of the Maryland line. That for the sake of identity she has been informed
that her husband the aforesaid William Finley was detailed from the Army to make cannon Carriages all of which she believes is true Sworn to and subscribed to the day and date above written
Nancy Finley  her mark
C. B. Rogers {s}
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State of Tennessee
County of Carroll, J.. B. Rogers a justice of the peace in and for said county do hereby certify that Nancy Finley the subscriber to the foregoing declaration is a woman of [illegible] veracity and good mind considering her advanced age that she was duly sworn and did subscribe her name 

that she is the identical woman who filed a former declaration and was sworn to before me
And she yet is disabled to attend court from old age - that she is personally known to given under my hand this 8th day of December 1852

Cantral B. Rogers  JP 

State of Tennessee
Carroll County.
On this 8 day of December  A.D. 1852 personally appeared , Robert H. Hawthorn before me C. B. Rogers- a justice of the peace in and for said county says on his oath that he has written several letters and directed them to Sullivan County Ten and in adjoining counties directed to the County Court Clerks and has received several answers which he believes were genuine from the post mark - All of which stated there were no such record in his office or in Post office that from the letters he does not believe any such public record exists from the fact that he knows from many searches in the State of Tennessee that many marriages has not that never were recorded that from his log requaintance with Nancy Finlay and her family he has no doubt of her marriage At the time specified by her

And that he has been requainted with the family of her before the passage of the pension law before of 1838 under which she Nancy Finley claims and he then and before the passage of said, all well understood that William Finley the husband of Nancy Finley had served in the Revolutionary War All of Which he believes from general
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character but he does not know the facts of his own knowledge but believes it to be so that he has tried to procure a copy of the marriage license between William Finley and his wife or widow Nancy Treadaway but has been informed that no such record exists - All of which he believes to be true sworn to And subscribed to that day and date above written.
Robert H. Hawthorn.

State of Tennessee
County of Carroll
On this 8th day of December A. D. 1852 I, C.B.Rogers do certify that I am personally acquainted with Robert H. Hawthorn the above affiant that he is a credible witness given under my hand and seal the day and state written.
Cantrul B. Rogers  J.P.

State of Tennessee
County of Carroll
I William H. Graves Clerk of the County Court of Carroll County do hereby certify that Cantul B Rogers whose name appears to the  foregoing affidavits and certificates is a justice of the peace within and for said county duly commissioned and sworn that he was such at the time of assigning the same that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine and that county courts of the county is a court of record.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribe my name a clerk of said court at Huntingdon this 20th day of December 1852

Wilbron H. Graves   Clerk
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Feb 10, 1857
Respecting claims
of Mrs Judah Davis
& others

R. H. Hawthorn
Camden
Tenn

[Illegible] cases in this title
charged to Capt Liplett


[Written lighter, beneath the above written note:]
Capt. Liplett
[illegible]
Answered this


[Address written sideways through the above two notes:]
official business
Free
James E. Heath Esq.
Commission of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Camden Tennessee Jan 28th 1851
Sir
I received a communication
from the Hon J G Harrio M. C informing me of
your inability to find the claims of several claimants
In order to I give the necessary explanation I hope you will
pardon a long letter there being several cases. They are
not rejected claims or on the pension Roll.  I call them
suspended claims for the want of attention from the former
Pension commissioner. Mrs Judah Davis claim under 
the Act of 1838 claiming a pension she proved her
marriage by parol testimony her husband drew a pension
Henry W. Davis Mr Edwards suspended the claim and
filed her claim as such for several years I tried to get the
Clerk of the Court of Goochland County Va to send me
the copy of her marriage bond last summer I succeeded in
getting the necessary certificate and forwarded the same to J.L.
Edwards Esq who required her to file another declaration under the Act 1848 [illegible] before certificate could issue to her
I answered him that Mr Davis died a short time before
the act of 1848 was passed therefore did not claim under it
and insisted on her being placed on the pension roll as she
had performed all the rules of the Law and department had 
required And Mr Edwards extra requisitions And now urge
the same and claim as the old claim a speedy decision for
the benefit of course to her children the precise date of her death
I do not know but her death must be proved before the agent
for paying pension at Nashville where her husband J W
Davis drew his Pension. Mary McKelvy filed her 
Declaration under the act of 1838. And proved her marriage
by parol testimony Mr. Edwards then required her claim
Character and marriage to be submitted to the County Court of
the County Where the resided It was done and approved to
their satisfaction it then was required that she should file
her declaration under the act of 1848 She done so Mr
Edwards then required her to prove the Records of Cumberland Cty
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was burned in the year 1800 As she Aleged from information
before parol testimony could be admitted I obtained an answer
of the fact from the Clerk and forwarded the same to Mr Edwards
Which has not been answered the proof the destruction of the
office has been made as I am informed in many other cases
and on that grant I think (I hope not to censure) that Mr
Edwards withheld Justice from Mr McKelvey unnecessaryly 
since the last evidence proving the loss of the Records of the office
of Cumberland Cty Rea is not answered but her papers filed
Mrs Frazier files her declaration and the Act of 1838
and 1848 And proved her marriage positively and no answer
on the last declaration it was first suspended for the want
of a few I think technical omissions by Mrs Fraziers first agent
which I think were fully explained in the last declaration proof
&c the three Widows above named & husbands all drew Pensions
Mr Fraziers husband at Jackson Ten the other two
at Nashville Tennessee. Mrs Nancy Finley's filed her
declaration last March and depends on the Muster Rolls
to satisfy you that her husband served in the revolutionary
war in the Maryland line his Residence was at Baltimore
If you cannot find proof enough on the muster Rolls of the
recolection to justify you to grant her a stipend she cannot
prove any thing more than she has proved except from hearsay
and please examine and decide her case also Mrs Finleys husband
drew no pension but died before the pension act was passed I.E.
of 1832.  Please Examine the Georgia Rolls of Invalid Pensioners
for the name of Presley Thornton. MrsThornton drew a pension
as an [illegible] whose wounds now show plainly, he got his house
burned, ^together with his certificate^ and he failed to draw his pension for seven eight or
ten years he then applied for a pension under the act of
1832. and obtained a certificate from March 4th 1831
I hold that Mr Thornton is justly entitled to his Pension the
date of the last payment up to March 4th 1831. his pension
was $96. per Annum Mr. Thornton is a man of fair standing
in society but his memory is a little failing him (IE) in things
that has lately passed please inform me what kind or
Identity I must make for Mr Thornton for he is able
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to identify himself by respectable persons now alive and near
him.  And one more claim of Susan Johnson and Barbara Smith
for Bounty land due Yancy B. Wilkes dec late a Soldier in
Captain Murrys Company letter B 2nd Tenness Volunteers
they are the only sister and no brother or brothers Wife widow
or child father or mother 'I.E.' Mr Y. B. Wilkes never was
married and his father and mother died before he went into
the U.S. service All the requisites are proven and in your
office an adjusted as far as I know I urge the foregoing
claim as just and well sustained by proof except Mrs
Finleys whose claim I think just if the Rolls will
convince you of the fact, for she cannot prove by any
living person that she knows of any thing about the
matter, but all the others I insist is fully sustained and
ought to be attended to long since. I hope the office will
not fall into the old habit of delaying the old Revolution
claims till the the old claimants die. I received yours
of the 10th of June 1851. and will cheerfully wait your
request for I am aware of the many things I asked for
and will urge the necessity to those whose claim I
advocate of being patient. Permit me to assure you
I never will advocate a claim of any kind until I [illegible]
it a just one though I may be mistaken in my opinion
you must not think that I urge these claims too strenuous
it is to do justice to those that are now old and the only
ones that ought to enjoy it. Your careful attention is
respectfully solicited by your Obt Servt
Robert H. Hawthorn
James E Heath Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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May 13 1850
Declaration 14.148.
of William
Nancy Finley wid
of William
Original Case
July 1 1838
No papers

April 27 Eagle Creek Tenn
official business
J.L. Edwards Commissioner
of Pensions
M. Ames Tree
Washington City
D.C.
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[Blot on letter second & third sentences]
April 24th 1850
Sir,
I send you the papers in the case of Mrs. Finley Which amounts to no positive proof of Service of William Finley deceased by reference to the Fall[?] of the Maryland line which will afford the proof, if proof can be made I also send you an affidavit by James J. Freeland and that not in form[?] for you to understand the nature of his claim if his discharge has been last or not filed in your office he can prove that he was honorably discharge[d] and perhaps this day please inform me of situation of his claim for a land Warrant which he now wants Also the necessary steps for me to take to obtain the same.
Your Obt Servt
R. H. Hawthorn
[To]
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Hawthorn & Davidson
Nov 17/53
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241 
Pension Office
Nov 17 1853 

Gentlemen 
This Office is not in possession of the slightest proof that the husband of Nancy Finley of Tenn, ever performed a day's service in the War of the Revolution.  I trust the case will be permitted to rest upon our suspended files until some effort is made to supply the proof so often required, in the various letters written to you upon the subject.

Messes Hawthorn & Davidson 
Camden Tenn
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County
On  this 25 day of July A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me H. J. Ridley a justice of the peace within and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes Nancy Finley a resident of said County who first being duly sworn
according to law says on her oath that she is the identical woman who petitioned or had a declaration made by her to place her on the pension Roll of the United States under the
act of 1838 as the Widow of William Finley who she believed served two or three tours in the Maryland troops that she has often heard her said husband say that he was in the line as a common soldier and was called off to go, and make Cannon Carriages for the use of the American Army that she has no record proof of his service in the Revolutionary
war that the depends on the Muster Rolls of the Maryland troops for proof of her husbands military service that he William Finley her said husband resided in the Town of Baltimore when he entered the service and was a waggon maker by trade that she has no record proof of her marriage except a family record already sent to the Pension office that she does not believed that any public record exists of her marriage because she is informed by her agent Robert H. Hawthorne that he had sent to Sullivan County where her said marriage took place that he had received a certificate from the Clerk of the Court showing there were no such record in his office that she has good cause to believe his information to be true, that her dependance for
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proof of Marriage is on the family record was on file in the pension office together with her reputation already on file as aforesaid Sworn to and subscribed the day and State above Written
Nancy Finley   her mark
Before me
H. H. Ridley
State of Tennessee
Carroll County
On this 25th day of July A.D. 1853
Personally appeared before me H. H. Ridley a justice of the peace in and for said County Robert H. Hawthorn who being duly sworn according to law says on his oath that he acted as the agent of said Nancy Finley the subscriber to the above affidavit to aid her in procuring proof to place her on the pension Roll of the United States that I addressed a letter directed to the Clerk of the County Court of Sullivan County and received
a certificate in answer purporting to be from the Clerk of the County Court of said County that he placed the same in the mail or
directed to the Commissioner of Pensions that he has addressed two letters since directed to said Clerk and received no answer that he has been acquainted with Nancy Finley above named about twenty one years that she was then a widow that he had always from that time understood from hearsay that her husband (whom he never saw) to had served in the revolutionary war Sworn to and subscribed the day and date above written
Robert H. Hawthorn

Before me H. J. Ridley {S)
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County
J, H. H Ridley a justice of the peace in and for said County do hereby certify that Nancy Finley duly sworn and did subscribe her name as above that she is yet from old age unable to attend Court that Robert H. Hawthorn  is personally known to me and was duly sworn and did subscribed his name and is a
credible witness and I further certify that her children are regarded as legal heirs and that she is a woman of good character given under my hand as Justice of the peace
this 25th day of July A.D. 1853
H. H. Ridley Acting Justice Peace
 for Carroll County
I William H Graves Clerk of the County
County Court of said County do hereby certify
that of H.H. Ridley whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of his signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said County & State duly Elected commissioned and
qualified as such full faith are due all his official all and his signature is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
county at office in Huntingdon this
July 26th 1833 Willson H. Graves Clerk
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100
Pension Office
9th Nov 1850
Sir:
The declaration of Nancy Finley, widow  of Wm has been received.
In order to enable  us to investigate her case she must state the names of the officers under whom her husband served, the periods for which he enlisted, was drafted or volunteered
and the State from which his service was rendered. In the (illegible) of the State record evidence in this subject exists, and in such can her alleged times must be retained by the record She must also prove the identity of her husband with the soldier of his name who may be proved to have her actually in service, by the oaths person cognizant of the facts.


R. H. Hawthorn Esq
Eagle Creek
Tenn.
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Hawthorne & Davidson
May 26/53
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425
Pension Office 
May 26 1853 

Sirs:
No additional evidence has been filed in the case of Nancy Finley of Tenn, since the report of Nov 9 1850 to R H Hawthorne Esq.  The family Record will be considered when it is shown that no evidence of a higher grade is in existence.  Marriage and service must be established in accordance with the requisitions of the above letter.

Hawthorne & Davidson
Camden Tenn
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Hawthorne & Davidson
Septr. 21, 1853
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448 
Pension Office 
21st Sept 1853 

Gentlemen, 
Yours of 30th July 1853, in relation to the claim Nancy Finley widow of William of Tennessee, has been received. You refer to evidence enclosed in your letter, but none such has been received. The requirements of our letter of 26th May 1853. still remain uncomplied with. 

Messrs Hawthorne & Davidson 
Camden. Tennessee
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Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Rev War Records

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me a copy of the pension papers as allowed Nancy Treadway Finley, widow of Wm Finley (R3555).  My information is that Wm Finley died Feb 1815
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and his widow Nancy Treadway Finley drew a pension.  I think they were from Carrol Co Tenn

Yours truly
Mrs. M. A. Christopher
1224 Straford
Kansas City, MO.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12 - 5 - 41 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD


NAME:  Finley, William 
GRADE: Private
LINE: New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER: 8314
ACREAGE: 100
ISSUED: August 5, 1789 to ___  not shown

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.