Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8536, for Edward Prichard, North Carolina
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N.C.

Prichard, Edward
or Pritchett
Ruth or
Rutha

NUMBER
W. 8536
B.L. Wt. 19810-160-55
CONTENTS
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Restoration 5487
South Carolina
Ruth Prichard
widow of Edward Prichard
N C
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Washington City
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of [March, 1848. crossed through]
of September 1860 payable to Henry Prichard  administrator ending Feby. 9th 1866

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of November 67.and sent to
R. W. Walker
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 334 Vol. H
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No 14025
Ruth Prichard
wid Edward
S.C
Act 7 July 1838

Declaration
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the
7th July 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and
pensions to certain widows"
State of South Carolina
District of Pickens

On this third day of April 1849 personally
appeared before the Court of General Sessions and common
Pleas for the District aforesaid Mrs. Ruth Pritchett a
resident of the same District and State, aged ninety
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 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay
and pension
to certain widow;" and the several act, in
continuation thereof -
That she is the widow of
Edward Pritchett who was a private in the regular
service of the United States during the Revolutionary War
but it is impossible for her to state much as to his services
at her advanced age, she recollect, that he served under
Capt. Jos. Johnston, and that they afterwards lived
neighbors to him in Chatham County N.C. that when
her husband entered the service he resided in Wake County
N.C. he also served under Col Nash, and she recollects
the names of other officers who served with the army in
the same section, viz, Col Lee. Col. Saxton
He served in both North and South Carolina, and was
in the Battles of Brandywine & Kings Mountain &
Mammoth. he was taken prisoner at  Eutaw Springs & there kept
until about the close of the war when he made his
escape.
She further declares that she was
married to the said Edward Pritchett in in Wake County
N.C. about 2 miles from [illegible] River by Mich. Rogers
who was a magistrate, her husband obtained a License
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for the purpose, and the marriage took place
about the year 1784, as it was about four months
after the close of the war her maiden name was
Ruth Hays she has no documentary evidence of
the service of marriage-
She further declares that her said husband died
as near as she can come at it about thirty nine
years
ago, she understood that her husband drew
Land warrant for his service after the close of the
ever, which may afford some evidence of his services
She was not married to her said husband prior to
his leaving the service, but the marriage took place
previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred
and ninety four, viz at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year
above written, before in open Court this 4th
day of April A.D. 1849
W. L. Keith C.C.
Ruth Pritchett her mark

Done in open Court.
D. L. Wardlaw
Judge Presiding
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State of South Carolina
I W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court
of Pickens District in the State aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing declaration was made and subscribed
to by Ruthey Pritchett in open Court before his Honor D.L. Wardlow Esq duly administered and subscribed
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before me as Clerk of the said Court. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the Court at Pickens Court House they
[illegible] day of April 1849
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District
S.C.
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156.900
Act March 3/55
June 8/55
Rutha Pritchard
wid of
Edward Prichard Pri.
Capt. Johnston
Col Rams & Bowman
Private N.C. Line
Revolutionary War
S. C. [illegible] 48- 5487
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Ad. 160 acs Apl 30/56
Dodge
Solomon King
Andersonville
D.C.
Vol P. page 146.
mo 19816 is Apl. 7/56
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156.900
.
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State of South Carolina SS
District of Pickens this the 9th day of April AD one
thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for said District and State Rutha Pritchard
aged about ninety four years a resident of said District and State who
being duly sworn according law declares that she is the widow of
Edward Prichard deceased who was a private in the Company
commanded by Captain Johnson in the Regiment of Infantry comm.
by Col Ramsey & Bowman in the Revolutionary War against
Great Britain. That he enlisted in said War for the term of five
years in Wake County, North Carolina, and continued in actual
service in said War, for the term of five years, and was honorably
discharged from said service, but she does not now know or
recollect the precise time when or place where. That she is the
identical widow of said Edward Prichard that she now draws
a pension for the services of said Edwin Prichard and now holds
the said pension certificate bearing date of both day of July 1850
and Numbered 5487 Rec'd. in Vol.2  she states that she
was married to the said Edward Prichard about the month of
November AD 1788 by one Micajah Rogers a Justice of the peace
and that her name before her said marriage was Ruth, Hays
that her said husband died in Chatham County in the State of
North Carolina on or about the year AD 1817, and that she is now
his widow. She further states that there is no record of her said
Marriage nor can she now easily or conveniently prove by
living witnesses her said Marriage, she relies on proof of General
reputation and cohabitation, and refers to proof furnished to
the Department of Pension in a former declaration made for
Pension money either in the year of 1849, or 1830 on which said
declaration she was pensioned
She makes this declaration
for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may
be entitled under the act approved the 3d day of March AD 1833
and further states that from deficiency of memory consequent on old age & affliction that she is not certain that all the dates above written are exactly correct, but are so in substance Ruth Prichard her mark
Attest W. E A. Prichard
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We W. E. A. Prichard and Solomon King residents of
Pickens District and Anderson District State of South Carolina
upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed
and acknowledged by Ruth Prichard in our presence
and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the
applicant that she is the person she represents herself to be
and the first written affiant declares that he knows the
applicant to be the person who holds the Pension certificate
as stated and numbered above,
Solomon King
W. E. A. Prichard
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and
subscribed before me on the day and year above written
and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons
that I know the Claimant to be the identical person she
represents herself to be
Wm Hunt Not. Public
P. C.

State of South Carolina
Pickens District
I William L Keith Clerk of the Court
of Sessions and Common Pleas for Pickens District do hereby certify
that William Hunt whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the date thereof a Notary Public
within and for said District and State duly commissioned and
Sworn and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full
faith and credit that his said Commission has not
expired and that I have no interest in this claim
Given under my hand and seal of office this
the
day of
AD 1855
Wm. L. Keith Clerk
of the Court for Pickens District S. C.
Commissioner of Pension Please make returning
of this to Solomon King Andersonville
S. C
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State of North Carolina
Wake County ⎬ Know all men by these
Presents that we Edward Prichard and Sion
Perry are held and firmly bound unto his excellency
Richard Caswell Esquire Governor, and his successors in Office in the sum of Five Hundred pounds
Specie to which payment well and truly to be made
we bind ourselves, our heirs of
Jointly & severally
firmly by these presents, Sealed with our seals and
dated this 10th day of October A. Dom 1785
The condition of the above obligation is such
that whereof the above bounden Edward Prichard
hath applied for a License to be joined with Rutha
Hays in the Holy Estate of Matrimony, Now if
there be no lawful cause to obstruct the marriage
for which s'd. licence were obtained, then the above
obligation to be void. Entre to remain in full force
and Virtue

Test
H Lane
Edward Prichard his mark seal
Sion Perry seal

State of North Carolina
Wake County ⎬ I James T. Marriott Clerk of
the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of
Wake aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of the Marriage
Bond of
Edward Prichard, Transcribed from the original on
filed in my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed the seal of said Court and
subscribed my name this 30th October
A.D. 1849.
James T. Marriott Clerk
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No 14025
Ruth Prichard
SC
Letter Jas. F Caradine 21st Feb. 1850
Let to Hon. James L. Orr. Apl. 9/50
Act 7 July 1838
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5487
South Carolina
Ruth Prichard
widow of Edward Prichard
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
30 day of July 1858.
and sent to Hon. J. L. Orr
House of Reps.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2,1848, Page 326. No 2
[illegible] 156900
Let to U. C. Lee, March 10, 183[missing]
W. R. Moore, Apl 30 [illegible]
Report
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10951
South Carolina
Ruth Richard
Widow of Edward Prichard
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died in the year 1811
of Pickens Dist. in the State of S.C.
who was a private in the Compy
commanded by Captain Williams
of the Regt commanded by Col. Williams in
the N. C.
line for
Inscribed on the Roll of Charleston
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of
July 1850 and Sent
Hon. J. L. Orr H R
Total amount, $
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Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by J. B. Chase
Clerk,
Book D No 1 page 311
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8536

Ruth Prichard
Wid
Edward Richard 
Privt. Rev. War
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Act: Febry 2
1848.
Index: --Vol. M, Page 140
Arrangement of 1870.]
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
1, WILLIAM HILL, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls of the Continental line of this State, in the Revolutionary War
, that Edward Pritchet a private Soldier in Capt. Williams'
-
Company of the fourth Regiment, entered the service on the
day of 1777 for the term of the War, and that a warrant for land has issued on the certificate of a
field officer, for seven years service, or for the
War
Given under my hand this 31st day of October 1849
W. Hill Secretary
of State
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19.810
⎬
[illegible]
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8864
South Carolina
Ruth Prichard
widow of Edw  Prichard
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of
80
Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued
the 30th day of July 1850
and sent to
Hon. J. L. Orr
House of Reps
Acts of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 169
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Restoration 5487
Brief in the Case of  Ruth Prichard, Widow of
Edward Prichard who was a Rev Sol.
Whitfield County and State of Georgia
Act Feb 2 1848
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,


PROOF EXHIBITED,
A [illegible]  pensioner Roll of Charleston S.C. at $80.00 per annum &
paid to Sept 4. 1860 a Certificate said to have been sent
Identity, loyalty, Widowhood & date of decease properly
shown claim
is made by Henry Prichard
Adm for arrears for Sept 1860 to Feb 9. 1866, date
of pensioner decease
Restored Nov. 7. 1867 to a pension at $80.00 per annum
commencing Sept 4. 1860 & Ending Feb 9.1866 payable to
Henry Richard Adm
Name and residence of Agent
R W. Walker
Present,
W E Trask
Examining Clerk.
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Ruth Prichard
widow of Edward
S. Carolina
Pickins District
Admitted
Pr. - $80 per
[illegible] March 18366
to 41 - from 43 to 48
[illegible]
act 7 July 38 & [illegible]
Cap. Williams 4 [illegible]
N.C.
A.D. 1811
Hon. J. L. Orr
H R
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Raleigh 31st October 1849
Mr James F. Caradine
Dear Sir
your letter of the 30th
Ultimo was received on the 10th instant and shortly
after sent to the Clerk of our County Court, from
whom I received the enclosed copy of a Marriage
bond today. You will see the name in the bond is
not spelt as it is on the muster rolls and in the
warrant, a copy of which I sent you with a
certificate made from the muster rolls. The pension
agent is so well acquainted with my hand writing
that it is unnecessary to put the seal of the State to
my certificates, which would cost one Dollar
each,
You will please send me two Dollars
for the Clerk and myself. South Carolina State
Bank bills are good here, but rail road money is
not.
Yours respectfully
Wm. Hill
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Mr. Cole
for Com of Pensions
Hon James L Edward
Washington City
Dist. of Columbia
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Bachelors Retreat Feb 14th 1831
Hon. James L  Edwards
Dr Sir
during the last year James Caradine
obtained from the
department to Pension for Mrs. Rutha
Prichard the account of which she
does not know and he Caradine
will not give her any satisfaction
neither will be show to her or any
 the said certificate he refuses
to give her up the certificate as he
has not only retained Six Hundred
dollars but claims one half of the
annual draft due to her
Through me as her Attorney
she has commenced suit in the
Court of Common Pleas to right hereby 
we most respectfully ask at your
hand all the information you
can give us on the premises
what was the account he received
and if he has put up a claim for
a bounty of Land, or money if due her, and what course we will be
compelled to pursue to obtain
the amount due her on the 4th
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of March next. your reply to the
note, will oblige us as the Court will be
in Session on the first Monday in
April next
I also have it
duty. I [illegible] my Country to [illegible]
the department in all Business
they may have to and with James
Caradine
with much respect I
remain your obedient
Servant
Uree  C. Lee
Direct to Bachelors Retreat
Pickens District
-South Carolina
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State of North Carolina  No 3759.
The Honorable James Glasgow, Esquire Secretary of State,
To Colonel Martin Armstrong, Greeting.

You are hereby required to lay off and survey for Edward
Pritchett a private in the line of this state Six hundred and forty
acres of land, within the limits of the lands reserved by law for
the officers and soldiers of the continental line of this State of observing the directions of the acts of Assembly in such case
made and provided. Two just and fair places, with a certificate to each annexed, you are to transmit to my office, within the time limited by law. Given under my hand at
Glasgow the 3rd day Augt 1792
State of North Carolina
J. Glasgow
Office of Secretary of State
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State of
North Carolina, do hereby certify, that the above is a
true copy of a Warrant taken from the original which
is on file in this office.
Given under my hand this 31st day
of October 1849.
Wm. Hill Secretary
of State -
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House of Reps. 3 July 1850
Sir 
I have the honor to forward you two
affidavits as supplemental evidence in
the case of Rutha Prichard her declaration and other testimony being already
on file in your office
I hope the
testimony now furnished will remove
the objectives to granting Mrs. Prichard
a pension
I also desire to call your attention to the case of Mr. Rush for an
invalid pension, supplemental evidence supporting the same having
been forwarded to you some weeks
since by me the receipt of which
or the action of your department there
in I have not been advised
I have the honor to be
very respectfully your ob'd.
Ser't.
James L. Orr
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Anderson District
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South Carolina
Before me personally appeared
Thomas Christain man of undoubted veracity
and made oath in due form of law that he became
acquainted with Edward Prichard in 1793 in the
State of North Carolina Chatham County and
Lived by him until 1805 and then moved to South Carolina and in a few years after the death of
Edward Prichard his wife Rutha Prichard
mooved to Anderson District South Carolina
where she now resides, her maiden name was
Rutha Hays and she has never since married but
is still the widow of Edward Prichard
Deponent further declares Edward Prichard
in Brother William Prichard told him in 1793
his Brother Edward Drew six hundred and forty acres
of Land in the State of Tennessee on the Little Tennessee
River for services rendered in the Revolution war
on the Continental line with my Brother who
served five years in the in the Revolution war
and was in several Battle with Prichard
I was also acquainted with Thomas Gypret who
he transferred his Land to in [Nor partially erased] Tennessee
he is the Identical man who drew the
640 acres of Land for his services
in the Revolution was
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and Rutha Prichard is the widow
of Edward Prichard and is living in
seven or eight miles of me at this
time
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 4th day of June 1850

Ths. J. Christian
His Mark

Wm Hubbard
M.A. D.

State of South Carolina ⎬ 
Anderson District 
I Elijah Webb Clerk of the Court of Sessions & Common
Pleas for the District of Anderson in the State aforesaid
Do hereby certify that William Hubbard whose attestation is
to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the date
thereof a magistrate for Anderson District duly qualified
as the Law requires, and that all due faith & credit
ought and should be given to his attestation as such Magistrate
and that I am also acquainted with Thomas Christian
whose signature is to the foregoing that he is a man of Honest
integrity
Given under my hand & seal of
the Clerks office this 12th day of
June Anno Domini 1850
Elijah Webb
C.C. S H, P, A, D,

Mr Christian is a respectable and truthful citizen
James L Orr
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Pickens C.H. [illegible]
2 [illegible]
156.900
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
D.C.
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14025

Decem 4th: 49
Ded.
Rutha Prichard

wid of Edward

Pickens dist
 S.C.
act 7 July 1838
Jas F. Caradine
Martins Creek
S.C.  

Martins Creek S. C. 
Nov. 25th 1849
Original Case [illegible]
38
W. Ames
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington City
D.C.
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Pickens District ⎬ 
South Carolina
Nov. 24th 1849
Dear Sir
 I now enclose
Rutha Prichard Declaration wife of Edward
Prichard
which I neglected to send you last
mail as the mail only arrives at Martins
Creek Weekly I hope the proof will be
sufficient
Yours very Respectfully
James F. Caradine
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Martin Creek SC
Nov. 18. 1849

W. Ames 9th
rev.
November 27th 1849
add'l. Evi, case
Ruth Prichard
wid. of Edward
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washing City D.C.
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1849
Pickens District ⎬ Nove 17 1849
South Carolina
Sir
as Rutha Prichard
wife of Edward Prichard has laid in a
claim for the service of her Husband
Rendered in the Revolutionary war on the
Continental line Copy of Land warrant
also copy of the Marriage Bond and others
proceedings which you will find enclosed.
you will find his name spelt differently
in the Bond from what it is in the
warrant owing to his being a man of no
Education as I find his signature in all
case to Be a mark in his papers
I would not say in all
Cases But in several different  [illegible]
In this way
Edward Prichard
Edward Pritchard
Edward Pricket
Edward Pritchet
in his Receipts notes Land papers and
proceeding:
Yours
Respectfully
James, F. Caradine
Sir I have forgotten Mrs. Prichard
Declaration I will send it on next mail
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State of Georgia
Whitfield County ⎬ 
Be it known that before me Samuel B. Sloan a
Justice of the Infr Court in and for the County
aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths
personally appeared Ruth Prichard widow of
Edward Prichard and made oath in due
form of law that she is the identical person named
in an original certificate in her possession of which
I certify the following is a true copy
-
Department of the Interior
Widows Pension
I certify
that in conformity with the act of
Febry 2nd 1848 Ruch Prichard of South Carolina
widow of Edward Prichard who was a private
in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the
Pension List at the rate of Eighty Dollars
and - cents per annum, commencing on the
4th of March 1848 and continuing for life unless
she should again marry in which case the Pension
is not payable after the time of such marriage
Given at the Department of the Interior
this 30th day of July One Thousand Eight
Hundred & Fifty
Examined and countersigned
J. L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
D C Goddard
Secretary of the Interior
ad interim
Payment to be made at Charleston by John C. Cochran
agent for paying Pensioners in the agency of
South Carolina 11 Payable on the 4th September
and 4th March
[illegible] in Pension office on the Roll of Pensioners
under act of Febry 2nd 1848 Page 326 Vol 2
J P Chase Clerk
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That she has not intermarried but continues the
widow of the above mentioned Edward Prichard
and that she now resides in Whitfield County
Georgia and has resided there for the space of
six years
and that previous thereto she
resided in Pickens District State of South Carolina of the
truth of which statement I am fully satisfied
Witness John White John Vance
Sworn to & subscribed
Before me this 7 day of Nov 1865
Ruth  Prichard
her mark
Sam'l. B. Sloan P. J. Court
Georgia
Whitfield County
⎬ Know all men by these presents that I Ruth Prichard
of said County and State [crossed through words] revolutionary
Pensioner do hereby constitute and appoint William R. Moore
my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name
to receive the [illegible] officer or agent of the United States for
paying Pensions in the State of Georgia my pay at the sum
of Eighty Dollars per annum from the fourth day of
September Eighteen Hundred & Sixty to the 4th day of
September 1865

Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of November 1865
Witness
John White
Witness John Vance
Ruth Prichard ℗
her mark

State of Georgia ⎬ 
Whitfield County ⎬Be it known that on the 7th day of Nov 1865 before the subscriber a Justice of the
peace in and for said County personally appeared Ruth
Prichard above named and acknowledged the foregoing
power of attorney to be her act and deed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day
and year above mentioned
Saml B. Sloan
J. P. Court Whitfield County
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State of Georgia
Whitfield County
 Personally appeared before me Saml B. Sloan
one of the Justices of
the Infr Court in for said County
John White & Anderson Pritchet who
being duly sworn deposeth & says
that they are personally acquainted
with Mrs. Ruth Pritchet whose name appears on the opposite page & that she never
was any ways interested nor taken
any part or action whatever in the
Rebellion & that she is now
one hundred & Eight years of age
Sworn to & Subscribed ⎬ 
before me this November 9th 1865
Saml. B Stoan J.I.C.
John White
Anderson Prichet


Georgia
Whitfield County
[crossed through section]
Personally appeared before me a
Judge of the Superior Court of said State duly authorized
by the Court of Said State to administer oaths
Wm K Moore the attorney named in the
foregoing Power of attorney and made
oath that he has no interest whatever in the
money he is authorized to receive by virtue of
the foregoing Power of attorney either by
any pledge mortgage [illegible] assignment or
rumor and that he does not know or believe
that the same has been disposed of to any
person whatever
sworn to & subscribed before me Nov 10th 1865 Wm. K. Moore
Davison A. Walker [illegible]
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Georgia
Whitfield County
I Tilman H Pitner Clerk
 of the Superior Court in and
for said County hereby certify that Samuel
B Sloan Esq whose genuine official signature
appears to this foregoing declaration and
acknowledgement of Power of attorney and
affidavit of John White and Andrew
Pritchett is and was at the time of his
subscribing the same a Justice of the Inferior
Court in and for said County duly commissioned
and qualified and authorized by law to administer
oaths take acknowledgements &c and also
that Davison A Walker Esq before whom the
foregoing affidavit of Wm K Moore and
Mark and whose genuine official
signature is appended thereto to an
was at the time of his subscribing the same
a Judge of the Superior Court of
said State duly commissioned and
qualified and authorized to administer
oaths and that full faith and credit are due all their official attestations
as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal
Office this November 10th 1865
Tillman H Pitner
Clk Super Court Hatfield Co

[illegible stamp]
Commr of Pensions
A.
X
Please send order for amount due or draft Payable to my order
directed to
Wm R Moore Dalton, Georgia

Application of Ruth Prichard for back pay as Rev. [illegible]
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Pickens District
South Carolina

Personally appeared before me
Henry Prichard amon of Known
high standing and made oath in
due form of Law that he became aquainted
with Edward Prichard about the date of 1782
my self and Edward Richard was both living in
Chatham County North Carolina and I also lived
with Edward Prichard fifteen or sixteen years during the
time of my living with him Thomas Sypret
came to
his Residence and preposed a trade for 640
acres of land Edward Prichard owned in the state of
Tennessee on the Little Tennessee River in Wilson
County which was land he was entitled to for
his services rendered in the Revolutionary war
I have often herd him speak of his Land in Tennessee
and also of the term of he served which was during the
war and I have herd him speak of being in
many Battles and also taken prisoner near Charleston
I am not able to say how Prichard
and Sypret traded for this Land But the Land was
Transferred while I was living with Edward
Prichard
I after some time moved to South
Carolina near as I can recollect about the date
of 1805 and shortly after Edward Richard Died
and his widow moved to So Carolina Anderson District
and is living on the line of Pickens and Anderson perhaps
in Pickens about two miles and half from me at this time and she is still the widow of Edward
Prichard never having married Deponent further
states his name was Rutha Hays before she married
Sworn to & Subscribed
before me this
19th June 1850
J. B. Caradine M.P. D.
Henry Prichard
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I W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District
in the State of South Carolina, do hereby certify
That I, B.E. Caradine whose signature appears to
the within affidavit purporting to be his
is gemuine he was at the time of signing the same
an acting Magistrate for Pickens District
duly appointed commissioned and qualified
and all due faith and credit is due and ought
to be given to all his official acts as such
Given under my hand
and seal of Office at Pickens
Court House this 20th day of 
June A.D. 1850
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of
Pickens District
S. C.
Henry Pritchard who has assigned the within
affidavit is a man of respectability and
veracity
James L. Orr
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, H. H. Walker
of Cross Keys of the - Georgia
---
[in the State of crossed through]
have made, substituted, and appointed,
and by these presents do make, substitute and appoint R. W. Walker
in the City of Washington, D.C. my true and lawful attorney irrevocable, for
me and in my name, place and stead, to prosecute the claim of Henry
Pritchard Admr of Rutha Pritchard dec'd who
was a Revy Pensioner on the Rolls of the Agency at
Savannah Georgia for arrears of Pension from
Sept 1860 to time of her death
and to from time to time, furnish any further evidence necessary or that may be demanded,
& to receive her certificate when issued
giving and granting to my said Attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and
every act and thing whatsoever, requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises,
as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present at the doing
thereof, with full power of substitution and revocation, and to receipt and sign all vouchers, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute may or shall lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal, this June 15th day
day of
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
H. H. Walker Atty
WITNESSES:
L R Walker
W. H. Walker
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State of Georgia
County of Whitfield
Be it Known, That on this Twenty first day of June
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, before me, the undersigned, a Justice of
the Infr. Court in and for said County and State, personally appeared Henry
Prichet
me well known to be the identical person who executed the following 
Letter of Attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and that I
have no interest present or prospective in the claim.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of
office, the day and year last above written.
Attach Certificate of Clerk of Court.
Saml B Sloan
Justice Infr Court
I certify that Sam B. Sloan's signature is genuine and that he is an acting Justice of the Infr. Court in said county entitled to full faith herewith J. P. Freeman Co. C. Clk. 
I Henry Pritchard of Tilton Georgia do hereby
consent to the substitution of R. W. Walker as
atty. to prosecute my claim as Admr of Rutha Pritchard
Henry Pricket
his mark
G. W. Mayfield
S. B. Sloan J Infr. Court

Whitfield County
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Claim of
for
FILED BY
day of ┃
Printed and sold by W. H. Moore, 484 11th st., Washington, D.C.
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Additional
Application for Restoration
to Pension Rolls, Act Feb. 4.65
Henry Pritchard Administrator
of Rutha Pritchard deceased
who was a pensioner on the Rolls
of the Agency at Savannah Ga.
Revy War,
His address. Tilton, Georgia
Rec'd by the from H. H. Walker
of Cross Keys, Ga.
---
Filed by
R. W. Walker,
Washington, D.C
July 6th 1867
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office.
April 30th 1866,
Sir: As the application of Mrs. Ruth Pritchard, is very
informal and defective, advise that she make
a supplemental one.
inclose herewith forms and
instructions for your
observance in the case
I am Very Respectfully
Jos. H. Barrett.
Commissioner, 
Wm. R. Sloan, Esq.
Dalton,
Geo
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Cross Keys Ga.
June 5th 1867
Hon J. S. Barrett
Com of Pensions
Sir
I hereby authorize and
Request R W Walker Esq of Washington
City D.C. to present, the annexed claim of
Henry Pritchard Adm of Ruth Pritchard
deceased, for Arrears of Pension, & to Correspond with your office in relation thereto
as well as to receive and forward
one the Pension Certificate that may be issued
thereon
Very Respectfully
Your obl. Set
H. H. Walker
acty for cl
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State of Georgia
County of Whitfield On this 3d day of June
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and Sixty Seven
personally appeared before me. (1) Sam'l B. Sloan a
Justice of the Infr Court in and for said County and
State the same being a Court of Record (2) Henry
Pritchard aged Seventy Seven years, a resident of the
County of Whitfield in said State; who being duly Sworn
according to law; declares that he is the son and Administrator of the estate of the identical Rutha Pritchard
deceased who was a pensioner on the roll of the
agency at Savannah in the State of Georgia and who is
now dead. and whose pension certificate has heretofore
been returned upon his former application for Arrears of
Pension in 1866 - And that the deceased pensioner resided
in Whitfield County State of Georgia from the first day of
January AD 1861 until the time of her death, and that
during this period her means of subsistence have been
[illegible]
accumulate before the War and by the help of her son
And Declarant further states that he nor the
deceased aforesaid has not borne arms against the Government of the United States, nor he or she has not in
any manner encouraged the Rebels or manifested a
Sympathy with their cause; And that she was last paid her pension on the Fourth day of September A.D. 1860
This application is made for the purpose of obtaining
and Receiving the Balance and arrears of Pension
that was due from 4th day of September AD 1860 to the ┃
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[a portion of the left margin is missing]
day of A.D. February1866 being the time of her
and that the said Rutha
Pritchard the
aforesaid died in the County of Whitfield
 State of Georgia at her residence on or about
ninth day of February
AD 1866 and
the said deceased pensioner left one child
heir named Henry
Pritchard only surviving child. This application to be filed in con-
with
the papers already filed on his and her
inal claim & for the purpose of securing the
ation of her name, to the Pension Rolls and of
ing a new Certificate to him as Administrator
as he may be entitled to under existing Laws
 I hereby appoint H. H. Walker of Cross Keys Ga
attorney irrevocably-- with full power and authority
substitution to present, this my application and
m all that is necessary therein as well as to receive
certificate when issued, and that my Post Office
as is - Tilton  Henry Pritchet  his mark
Georgia
 witnesses
Owen    Administrator
[illegible]


Also personally appeared James Owens
of Whitfield County in the State of Georgia and
Nance
a resident of Whitfield County
Georgia, persons whom I certify to be
table and entitled to credit, and who being
duly sworn according to Law, say -
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that they were present, and saw Henry Pritchard
Sighn his
name
to the foregoing Declaration,
and they further swear, that they have every reason
to believe from their appearance of the applicant 
and their personal acquaintance with him and
his mother the deceased pensioner for Twenty
years that he is the identical person that he rep
represents himself to be,
Deponent further swear that they was also well
acquinted with Pritha Fitchard who was a
Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
and a resident of the County of Whitfield in
the State of Georgia having known her for
Twenty
years previous to the time of her
death
And that the
said Rutha Pritchard
Pensioner aforesaid died at her residence in
the County of Whitfield in the State of Georgia
on the Ninth day of February AD. 1866
deponents having a personal knowledge of the
and place of her death, and that
she left, one child and heir named Henry
Pritchard, present Applicant, only surviving
child deponents further state that the said Applicant Henry Pritchard and his mother
the Deceased pensioner aforesaid either of them have
not borne arms against the Government of the
United States of he or she has not in any manner encouraged
the Rebels or manifested a sympathy with their
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Cause
That
that deponents further state that
they have no interest in this claim nor concerned in the prosecution of the same
If mark is made. witnesses
James Owen,
John Nance
if mark is made 2 witnesses
H F Barra
W R Kiker
Sworn
to and Subscribed before me this 3d day
June AD 1867. And I certify that the contents of the foregoing
 affidavits was read and understood
affiants before the Signing thereof. And
I am not interest in this claim,
Sam'l. B Sloan
Justice Infr Court

State of Georgia
County of Whitfield I B. F. Parker Clerk
Court of Ordinary Court within and for
said County hereby Certify that S. B. Sloan
Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration & joint
affidavit was made was at the
of the signing thereof an acting
Justice of the Inferior Court, (a Court of Record)
within and for the County of Whitfield and State of Georgia
Duly Sworn and Commissioned
and that his signatures thereto is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the
Seal of said Court, on this 3rd
day of June AD 1867
B. F. Parker C.C.C.
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State of Georgia
Whitfield County
By J. P. Freeman Ordinary of said county
To all to whom these presents shall come - Greeting
Know ye that said Ordinary reposing special trust and
confidence in Henry Pritchet & has appointed and ordained [and ordained crossed through] him administrator of the
estate of Rutha Pritchet late of said County deceased
and he has full power by the tenure of these presents to
administer the goods chattels rights and credits of said
deceased; and to ask demand sue for and recover
the same and to pay the debts of the said deceased
so far as his assets will extend according to law
and then to pay the residue of said Estate to the legal heirs and distributers of said deceased and do all
things that shall be required of him according to
law as the administrator of said deceased
Witness my hand and official seal this
7th day of May 1865
J. P. Freeman Ordinary
Georgia Whitfield County
I
Jesse P. Freeman Ordinary in and for
said County do hereby certify that the above is a true
copy of the original Letters of administration of Henry
Pritchet administrator of the Estate of Rutha Pritchett late of said County deceased as issued by me and
recorded in my office at Dalton
Witness my hand and seal of office
this 29th day of May 1867
J.P. Freeman Ordinary