Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 116, for Jackson Lile, North Carolina
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State of Tennessee 
Bedford County SS
     On the fifth day of June in the year 1843 personally appeared in open court before the justice of the County Court of Bedford County aforesaid at the court house in Shelbyville, Elizabeth Lile a widow of said county aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, intitled, "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows", that she is the widow of Jackson Lile who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and serves as set forth in the Testimony by him submitted in his lifetime to the pension office, under which be obtained a pension for forty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum by certificate dated Nov 19 1833 numbered 15088.  She further declares that she was married to the said Jackson Lile on the eighteenth day of July in year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety three (18 July 1793) that her husband the aforesaid Jackson Lile died on the twenty eighth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty two (28 Sept. 1842) that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     I John H. Oneal Clerk of the County Court of said County  do hereby Certify that Wm. Taylor whose genuine signature appears to the within affidavit * acknowledgement is & was at the time he assigned the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly elected and commissioned and that full faith & credit is due to all his official acts.
     In testimony whereof I have set my hand & seal of office June 2 1855.
                                     John H. Oneal Clk
                        By his Deputy Jos. L Oneal
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     I Andrew Vannoy Clerk of the County Court of said Bedford County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that James Foster whose name appears officially to the foregoing declaration and certificate of Mrs Elizabeth Lile and also to the foregoing affidavit and certificate and probate to a power of Attorney from the said Elizabeth Lile is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace and a Justice of the County Court of said Bedford County which Court is a Court of Record and has by Law a public seal - and commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is Genuine in all of which documents are hereunto attached.
(seal)
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand as clerk of said Court and affixed the seal of office at office in Shelbyville this 7th day of December A.D. 1850.
                        Andrew Vannoy, Clerk
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alluded to and declared that she is still the widow of him the said Jackson Lile as above stated and requests that she be allowed a pension as asked for and to which she is advised she is intitled to under the above (illegible) acts of Congress and also the Joint Resolution of the _____184_.  Sworn to and subscribed before me the date above written before.
                      Elizabeth X Lile
                          (X her mark)
James Foster JP

State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     I James Foster an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said Bedford County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above Elizabeth Lile who has his day appeared and made oath to the above declaration before me that she is a woman of truth & veracity and that full faith and credit are due and of (illegible) ought to be given to her statements and I further certify that from my own personal knowledge she is the widow of Jackson Lile the identical Jackson Lile who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty six dollars & 66 cents per annum and I further certify that from old age and bodily infirmity the said Elizabeth Lile is not able to attend at the Court House of her county in order to make this declaration in open court.  In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this 6 day of September 1850.
                   James Foster JP
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(Typed form with handwritten answers.)

Know all men by these presents,
     That I, Jackson Lile Sr. of Bedford county, State of Tennessee a Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Benjamin Lile my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Nashville, State of Tennessee, my pension from the fourth March 1842.  Witness my hand and seal, this 21st day of March 1842.
                        Jackson X Lile Sr.
                           (X his mark)

Signed, seal and delivered in presence of
Robert C Balle
(illegible)

State of Tennessee, Bedford County, Sct.
     BE IT KNOWN, That on the 31st day of March 1842 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Jackson Lile Sr. above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.
                         Wm Taylor JP
                         Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee, Bedford County, Sct.
     BE IT KNOWN, That on the 31st day of March 1842 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Benjamin Lile the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the Pension or arrears of Pensions therein authorized to be received by him.
     Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year last above mentioned, before me,
                    Benjamin Lile

Wm Taylor JP

State of Tennessee, Bedford County, Sct.
      I, Robert Hurst Clerk of the county court of said Bedford county, hereby certify that Mr. Taylor is a Justice of the Peace as above, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his are genuine.
             In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 22d day of March 1842.

(seal)                     Rob Hurst, Clerk
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  yes

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  yes

XIV.  If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  

XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And if not, which of them is not so answers?  yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:  
     "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &C.   A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and said, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For_____year_____months, and_____days, I served as a _____.  For_____months and_____days, I served as a _____;  and for such service I claim a pension."
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(typed form)
     It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase "about three or four months" is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
     In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths, must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.

(note.  There is no QUERE XV.)

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
     In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office to the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.