Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25732, for Thomas Moody, Virginia
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Service Va
Moody, Thomas
               Selah
Number M25732
B.L.M. 40506-160-55
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5,880
Georgia
Selah Moody
widow of Thomas Moody
Va
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 51 dollars 55 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853
Certificate of Pension issued 6th day of August 1856 and sent to C.C. Tucker Prescot

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, page 240 Vol 36
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Sep 8 / 55

Selah Moody
wid. of 
Thomas Moody
Priv

Private
Va Mil
Rev. W

Rec pension
Giv June 32-16685

Feby 53
Ad. 160 ac's Aug 22nd / 56
Dodge

Chas C Tucker
Present 

No 40506
-- Sept - / 56
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Vol M=2=104 (or 106)
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Georgia   16685

Thomas Moody of Ogelthorpe in the State of GA who was a  {blank) in the (blank) command by Captain (blank) of the Rglr command by Col. Goode in the Va line for 15 mo. (?) days

Inscribed on the Rolls of Georgia at the rate of 37 Dollars 55 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Sept 18  and   Geo: W   Trice  Lexington  O

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833     128.8
Lomi-ani. allowance ending             25.7
                                                       ---------
                                                     $154.6

Recorded by  G W Trice  Clerk
Book E  Vol.      Page 97
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Paid at the Treasury under the act of  the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1836 to the 10 Nov 18xx  the day of his death.  At  h  tified 27 June 1838.
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Declaration to be made by a Widow who has never received. Bounty Land

State of Georgia
Oglethorpe County,
On this 3rd day of April 1856, before me, a Justice  of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State above named, personally appeared (1) Selah Moody aged {blank}  years a resident of said County-State, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of (2) Thomas Moody who was a (3)  {blank} that he (4) {blank} at {blank} in the State of {Blank} on or about the {blank} day of {blank} 18 {blankl} and continued in actual service fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at {blank} on or about the {blank} day of {blank} 18 {blank} and (5)   She further states that she was married to the said (2) at (blank) on the (blank) day of {blank}, A.D. by one a {blank} that her name, before her said marriage was Selah Goolsly that her said husband died at Oglethorpe County GA on the {blank} day of {blank} and she is now a widow. (6)
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the act of March 3, 1855, never having received Bounty Land or knowing that she is entitled except for the above service; and she hereby constitutes and appoints Chas. C. TUCKER, of Washington, D.C., her attorney to prosecute her claim and procure her warrant.  Hereby authorizing and empowering her said attorney to obtain from the proper authorities at Washington City, or elsewhere, certified copies of any Army or Navy records or documents in which her said husband's services may be recorded, and to procure any and all other evidence that may be necessary to establish her claim, as fully as if personally present; and revoking and countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose.
(7)  Selah Moody (signature)
Sworn to, subscribed, and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written; and on the same day personally came before me Henry Britain a resident of said County, in the State above names and Lewis  J. Dupree, a resident of said County, in said State, to me known as credible witnesses, who being duly sworn, declare that they are personally acquainted with (1) Selah Moody widow of (2) Thomas Moody deceased, who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration;  that they were personally acquainted with (2) Thomas Moody and his wife during the lifetime of the former, and know that they lived together as man and wife, and were so reputed; and they believe that the husband of the said (1) Selah Moody was the identical person who performed the service mentioned in the above declaration; that the above named (2) Thomas Moody is now dead, and the said (1) Selah Moody is now a widow.  And they further swear that they are disinterested in this claim.
(8)  Henry Britain  {signature)
      Lewis J. Dupree {signature}
Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution.
(9)  Geo..  F. Plott J J C
3978 {handwritten at bottom of docuemnt}
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STATE OF Georgia
Oglethorpe
I. George H. Lester
Clerk of the County Court in and for the
County and State above named, do hereby certify that George F. Plott
Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the
time of so doing a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State above
named, duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit,
and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 3rd day of April 1856

Geo. H. Lester Clerk
Superior Court


Forwarded by
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BOUNTY LAND CLAIM
ACT or MARCH 3, 1855.
ORIGINAL CLAIM FOR LAND WARRANT
MRS.
WIDOW OF

CHAS. C. TUCKER
Att'y for Claimant,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

INSTRUCTIONS.

1. Claimant's name.
2. Soldier's name.
3. Here specify the service as follows: " in the company commanded by Captain  in the regiment of commanded by Col.  ," or "a  on board of the United States ship  commanded by   in the war of   ," or as the case may be.
4. Enlisted, volunteered, was drafted, or shipped.
5.  "Add, "that she has never before made application for Bounty Land," or "that she made an application  for Bounty Land for said service, and her claim was rejected or suspended."
6. The claimant will here state that no public or private record of her marriage exists, or can be obtained, if such is the case.
If there is a County, Town, or Church record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of such record must be sent. If there if no
public, but a private or family record containing the marriage or the births of children, a copy of such record must be sent, and the magistrate will certify that it is a correct copy of the original . Parol evidence of the marriage or of cohabitation, is not admissible until the absence of record evidence is accounted for.
7. Claimant's signature.
8. Witnesses' signatures.
9. Magistrate's signature.
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Georgia
Oglethorpe County ⎬
On this fourth day of Sep
tember eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared
in open court before the Justices of the Inferior Court
while sitting  for ordinary purposes Thomas Moody
a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged  seventy years, who 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 on the seventh of June
of the present year entitled an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution
That he entered the service of the United States ┃
against England in the war of the Revolution
under the following named officers & served as
herein after stated.
That he was born in Cumberland County Virginia
on the eighteenth of June seventeen hundred & sixty two as he learned by reference to the old
family Bible before he left that country that
he lived there when he was drafted in the
early part of the summer of seventeen hundred and eighty to perform a tour of six months in
the militia service in the Revolutionary war
does not recollect the number of the regiment
to which he belonged - he marched from Cumberland county under the command of one
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Captain Charles Ballow to Hillsboro in N Carolina
where he was stationed four or five weeks passing through
the various exercises and discipline of a soldier &
where he was reviewed almost every day by General  Stephens  he marched from that place under General Stephens to
the battle ground about four miles from
Camden S. Carolina and for the last five days
they marched day & night with no other stop
than just long enough to prepare provisions & eat them.  reached the battle ground about mid?? in the afternoon of the day preceding
the battle  that night  the guards of the two armies met and between midnight and day exchanged some pretty sharp firing the main armies did not meet until about sunrise, after we were all drawn up in battle array Gates came riding along the lines and gave orders some what to the  following purpose "Let not a single gun be fired until the British get within six paces then everyone choose his man, fire on him and bayonet the
rest after he had passed Captain Ballow
exclaimed in the heat of passion "my boys we have heard the orders but I'll be damned if we'll stand to them as soon as I give the word you must fire."
Accordingly as soon as the British came up within sixty  or eighty yards he ordered us to fire & the command was generally obeyed deponent was stationed in the left wing of the army if he  recollects right as he was in the act of reloading he turned about & saw the Americans retreating rapidly and particularly he noticed a Major whose name he has forgotten who seemed ┃


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to be more alarmed than the rest applying his  spurs to his horse and at the same time beating him with his sword to make him retreat with more rapidity
presently the retreat became general all rushed down into a canebrake about 500 yards off & pushed through it with all possible dispatch - when they got on the hill the other side they were ordered to make a stand & a feeble effort was made to form a line
& rally but the British came rushing down the opposite hill in hot pursuit & shouting hazzah  for King George.  the Americans made a second break and ran like cowards a fragment  of Ballow's company got together again at Hillsboro after running about half the way & marching rapidly night & day the other part. After spending some considerable time here they were marched to a place called
New Garden in N. Carolina where they were 
discharged. The name of the officer who drew us up at New Garden and discharged us from this tour deponent has forgotten - he got no written personal discharge & he believes the officer in command took a discharge for the whole company.
Ballow  had before this lost his command by reason of his company being reduced to a fragment so small as to make it proper to have his men divided among other officers.
The next service this deponent performed was a tour of only two weeks duration he acted as a substitute in the place of one Langhorn Tabb, who lived in Powhatan County Va and entered upon this service about a week after his discharge from the first tour under the command of one Colonel Good


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Pensioner: Selah Moody. Veteran's Service: Va.
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and Captain Thomas Hubbard who commanded a scouting party of minute men marched from home to a little place called Osborn's warehouses on James river
the British at that time were said to lay in the
mouth of the Appomattox we were stationed at these Warehouses four or five days when we heard Cannon over toward Petersburg & concluded that the British were besieging the town we had had no time to deliberate when we saw our waggoner coming waving his hat up and down & announcing to us the rapid approach of the British our numbers
were few & we retreated to a place paralel with Manchester about 7 or 8 miles off-- there in the evening our colonel proposed that Captain Hubbard should take one hundred men go on toward Manchester
find out where the British were & what they were doing accordingly we paraded 90 men & entered upon our march our orders were when the sentry fired on us, rush up & fire fourteen rounds on the main ward & then return to him-- but when we got there the British had burnt the warehouses
in Manchester & gone down the river we went
back & reported the news to the Colonel & he instantly followed them down to Osborns - There the Colonel sent the Captain with ten men of whom deponent was one to find out where the British were ┃
some went on to a high rocky bluff  on James river & spied them in that stream, they seemed to be taking on board their vessels some land forces as they sailed along down the river, they came apparently within a hundred yards of us & my
were exceedingly anxious to give them the fourteen
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cartridges we had prepared for the former occasion but were prevented by the Captain probably because he thought our fire would be inefficient  were turned & made our report to the Colonel & after man occuring about a while we were discharged.
Soon after, say four or five weeks it fell to my
lot to serve a tour of three months in my own place
on this occasion deponent marched under the command of Capt. Guthrie to Prince Edward Court House where we joined General Lawson, and Major Holcomb were stationed
there about a month from there we marched and crossed James River at Carter's ferry & were stationed for some time on the Potomac he thinks this was the early part of the summer (say May ) of 1781 - from
here we marched to Jamestown & were stationed there until our discharge. This tour was of three months duration and deponent performed the whole of it but he cannot recollect the day when he entered
upon it nor the precise day of his discharge. He never received any personal discharge here nor did he ever indeed receive a personal discharge in his life
After remaining at home some days & getting
rested deponent agreed to take the place of a hatter named Robertson of the same county with himself for the sum of 100 L and some clothes as Robertson's substitute he served three months his Colonel on this
tour was one Parker whose men called
him General, the name of his captain was Haskins he marched from home to Smithfield in Isle of Wight staid there and at a place called Mackey's Mills for some considerable time under the discipline and performing the duties of a soldier from here


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he marched to Suffolk and was stationed there when information was received that there were a party of British not far from Long Bridge on the Dismal Swamp
our Colonel ordered us to march in quest of them and we left Suffolk in the night and reached the place where the British were between 10 & 12 Oclock in the day found there in a fort on the swamp
they had cut a kind of avenue through the Swamp and thrown up a road Colonel Parker Marched up to the head of the Avenue and made three of his men advance and fire at the fort in order to induce the British to come out they fired their cannon in return but their prices were so elevated as to send their balls entirely above us into the limbs of the
surrounding trees - our Colonel rode across the avenue in view of the fort several times and made efforts to induce them to come out but all without effect
He therefore stationed the guard at that place
& the rest of his forces went below and crossing long bridge to the opposite side of the Swamp began to prepare
refreshments but before we had been there one hour we heard some sharp firing by our guard we hastened back to it when we found that a party of the British who had been upon a foraging expedition had returned & attacked our guard several were killed on each side and the skirmish was over  before we got there-- we posted a second guard at the same place & returned to our 
provisions we remained at this place for a few days when the British sent us word if we did not leave there they would put us all to death in getting this information we advanced up the Swamp
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and soon learned from a deserter that the British had left the fort and gone to join Cornwallis on the same day we heard that the French had blockaded York river. We crossed the Swamp again and did not march far before we were discharged.
When deponent reached home he found ┃
that he had been drawn to serve at Yorktown and he took up his line of march thither under the command of Captain George Allen. When he got there he was under no regular discipline, but was set to digging entrenchments and continued variously employed until the siege was completed ┃
on this occasion his term was three months but as soon as Cornwallis was taken there was no farther use for him and he was discharged without having performed much more than three weeks service thinks he can probably establish part of these services by Robert Colquet of this County. He lived in
Virginia is or three years after the wars and moved to Georgia in December 1785 and settled in [Illegible] County where he has lived ever since. If Colquets testimony can be procured he will forward it with  this declaration. 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 in the Union.
Sworn to and subscribed      Thos Moody
the day and year aforesaid
William H. Smith Clk
Isham Rainey  clergyman residing in the County of Olgethorpe
County of Olgethorpe [illegible] Isaac Collier of the [illegible]

County of Oglethorpe & & Isaac Collier of the
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 hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Moody who has subscribed and [illegible] to the above declaration that we believe him to of the age therein stated, that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to
have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.-
Sworn and subscribed   Isaac Collier M.D.
the day & year aforesaid
William H. Smith Clk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the persons [blank]
who has signed the preceding certification
are residents in  Olgethorpe County ┃
that [blank]
who has also signed his name
is a resident of the same place and is a [illegible] person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I William H Smith Clerk of the Court of Ordinary do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Moody [illegible]  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set of office the
[last line is illegible]
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Copy of the marriage License  of Thomas Moody & Selah Goolsby No 2409-

Georgia Oglethorpe County.
To any Judge, Justice of the Inferior Court, Justice of the peace, or Minister of the Gospel.
You are Hereby Authorized to join in the Holy State of Matrimony Thomas Moody and Selah Goolsby According to the Constitution and Laws of this state, and for so doing this shall be your sufficient License.
Given under my hand this 29th day of December 1830.
William H. Smith C. C. O.

Georgia }
Oglethorpe County }
I certify that Thomas Moody and Celia Goolsby
were duly Joined by me in Matrimony This 29th December 1830.
Jno W. Raines J. P.

Recorded the 24th January 1831.
William H. Smith C. C. O.

State of Georgia ⎬ 
Oglethorpe County }
I Henry Britain Ordinary in and for said County
 in said state do hereby Certify that the above and foregoing Copy License,  is a true transcript and copy of the marriage License issued to Thomas Moody & Celia Godly on the 29th day of December 1830. And I further Certify that the above and foregoing Copy of the Certificate Returned to this office by Jno W. Raines J.P. is a true copy & transcript of the original Certificate which is now of Record in my office.
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Office at Lexington the Third day of September 1855.
Henry Britain Ordinary
of Oglethorpe County.
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Declaration of Mrs. Selah Moody widow of
Thomas Moody - 

For Revolutionary Pension under the Act of February 3rd 1853

State of Georgia }
County of Oglethorpe } SS:

On this 3rd day of September 1855, personally
appeared before [illegible] ordinary -of the County and State above named, Selah Moody. -
a resident of Oglethorpe County,-  in the State of Georgia. - aged 70 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed Feby. 3rd 1853  granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Thomas Moody. who was a private of Virginia Militia in the War of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States by reason of said services under the act of June 7. 1832. on the Georgia roll, at Fifty one dollars and Fifty five cents per year.

She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Moody on the 29th day of December, A. D. one thousand Eight hundred and thirty - Oglethorpe Co. Ga. by one Jonathan W. Raines a Justice of the Peace that her name before her said marriage was Selah Goolsby
and that her husband, the aforesaid Thomas Moody. - died at Oglethorpe Co. Ga. on the 10th day of November - A. D. 1836. - and that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband.
Selah Moody

[the above is followed by a long crossed out section]
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Know all Men by these Presents, that I, Selah Moody of the County of Oglethorpe and State of Georgia do hereby constitute and appoint Chas. C. Tucker, of Washington, D. C., my true and lawful agent and attorney, for me, and in my name to prepare and prosecute my claim for a Revolutionary Pension by reason of the services of my deceased husband; and I hereby empower my said attorney to examine all records and documents in reference to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington, to file additional evidence and arguments, and to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, with full powers of substitution. Hereby revoking and countermanding all former powers of attorney that may have been given by me for the above specified purpose.
Witness my hand and seal this 3rd day September of 1855.
Selah Moody

State of Georgia }
County of Oglethorpe } SS:
On this 3rd day of September 1855 personally appeared before me, Selah Moody and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned - 
Henry Britain Ordinary.
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Georgia } 
Oglethorpe County ⎬ 
Court of Ordinary for said County - September Term 1855 -
I,. Henry Britain Judge of the Court of Ordinary of said County - the same being a court of Record with a seal, & ex offices Clerk of said Court as certify that Selah Moody made & declared the foregoing Declaration for Pension on the other side of this paper this day before me in open court -  Witness my hand & seal of Office this 2nd Sept 1855
Henry Britain Ordinary -

CLAIM FOR PENSION.
Act of
Mrs.
Widow of
DECLARATION. 

CHAS. C. TUCKER,
Attorney.
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Declaration to be made by a Widow who has never received Bounty Land

STATE OF Georgia. - }
Oglethorpe - COUNTY, } ss.

On this 3rd day of September 185__, before me 
a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State above named, personally appeared (1) Selah Moody. - aged 70 years, a resident of Oglethorpe Co. Ga.  who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of (2) Thomas Moody, - who was a (3)
private Soldier in the War of the Revolution in the Va. Mil. and a pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832 on the Ga. roll at $51.55 per year
that he (4) _______ [long crossed out section]

She further states that she was married to the said (2) Thomas Moody. - at Oglethorpe Co. Ga.
on the 29th day of December A.D. 1830 by one
Jonathan W. Raines a Justice of Peace that her name before her said marriage, was Selah Goolsby that her said husband died at Oglethorpe Co. Ga. on the 10th day of November 1836. and she is now a widow. (6)

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the act of March 3, 1855, never having received Bounty Land or knowing that she is entitled except for the above service; and she hereby constitutes and appoints CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington, D. C., her attorney to prosecute her claim and procure her warrant. Hereby authorizing and empowering her said
attorney to obtain from the proper authorities at Washington City, or elsewhere, certified copies of any Army or Navy records or documents in which her said husband's services may be recorded, and to procure any and all other evidence that may be necessary to establish her claim, as fully as if personally present; and revoking and countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose.
(7) Selah Moody

Sworn to, subscribed, and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written; and on the same day personally came before me Lewis J. Deupree, resident of Oglethorpe -  County, in the State above named, and Geo. H. Lester, a resident of Oglethorpe County, in said State, to me known as credible witnesses, who being duly sworn, declare that they are personally acquainted with (1) Selah Moody. - widow of (2) Thos. Moody. late a Revy Pensioner, who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration; that they were personally acquainted with (2) Thomas Moody. - and his wife during the lifetime of the former, and know that they lived together as man and wife, and were so reputed; and they believe that the husband of the said (1) Selah Moody,was the identical person who performed the service mentioned in the above declaration; that the above named (2) - Thomas Moody -  is now dead, and the said (1) Selah Moody is now a widow. And they further swear that they are disinterested in this claim.
(8) Lewis J. Deupree
H. Lester

Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution. 
(9) Willis Willingham J.I.C.
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STATE OF Georgia. }
Oglethorpe. - COUNTY, } ss.

I, Henry Britain Clerk of the Ordinary Court in and for the County and State above named, do hereby certify that Willis Willingham Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Inferior Court in and  for the County and State above named, duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
signed my name and affixed my official seal this 3rd day of September 1855.
Henry Britain Ordinary

Forwarded by _____
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709086

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
ORIGINAL CLAIM FOR LAND WARRANT.
MRS. Selah Moody
WIDOW OF Thomas.
Record evidence of marriage
filed with Pension Claim
under Act of Feb. 3. 1853.

CHAS. C. TUCKER.
Att'y for Claimant, 
WASHINGTON, D.C.

INSTRUCTIONS.

1. Claimant's name.
2. Soldier's name.
3. Here specify the service as follows: "in the company commanded by Captain___ in the ___ regiment of____ commanded by Col. ____" or" a ____ on board of the United States ship ____ commanded by ____ in the war of ____," or as the case may be.
4. Enlisted, volunteered, was drafted, or shipped.
5. "Add, "that she has never before made application for Bounty Land," or "that she made an application for Bounty Land for said service, and her claim was rejected or suspended."
6. The claimant will here state that no public or private record of her marriage exists, or can be obtained, if such is the case. If there is a County, Town, or Church record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of such record must be sent. If there if no public, but a private or family record containing the marriage or the births of children, a copy of such record must be sent, and the
magistrate will certify that it is a correct copy of the original. Parol evidence of the marriage or of co-habitation, is not admissible until the absence of record evidence is accounted for.
7. Claimant's signature.
8. Witnesses' signatures.
9. Magistrate's signature.
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May 24, 1940 

BA-J/AWF
Thomas Moody
W. 25732     

Mr. Paxton H. Grigsby
1836 Irving Place
Shreveport, Louisiana 

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which
you request the Revolutionary War records of James Grigsby of South Carolina, and Georgia, Robert Smith, also of South Carolina, and Georgia, and Thomas Moody of Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the service of any James Grigsby.

The data furnished by you relative to Robert Smith are not sufficient to identify the record of the Robert Smith, in whom you are particularly interested.

The data which [illegible] obtained from 
[illegible] under W. 2 [illegible] Thomas Moody in the Revolutionary War. This is the record of the  only Thomas Moody of Georgia, found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The surname was searched under similar spellings.

Thomas Moody was born June 18, 1762, in Cumberland County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Cumberland County, Virginia,
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2 -
Thomas Moody enlisted early in the summer of 1780, served as a private in Captain Charles Ballew's Virginia company, was in the battle of Camden, South Carolina, length of service six months. He served later in 1780, two weeks in Captain Thomas Hubbard's company, under Colonel Goode. He enlisted in the spring of 1781, served about six months under Captains Guthrie, Haskins, Major Holcomb, and Colonel Parker, and was in an engagement at "Long Bridge in the Dismal Swamp." He served, again, in 1781, three weeks in Captain George Allen's company, at the siege of Yorktown.

Thomas Moody moved from Virginia, in the month of December, 1785, to Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

He was allowed pension on his application
executed September 4, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

He died in Oglethorpe County, November 10, 1836.
 
Thomas Moody married December 29, 1830, in
Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Selah (Celia) Goolsby. The date and place of her birth and names of parents were not given.

The widow, Selah Moody, was allowed pension on her application executed September 3, 1855, at which time she was seventy years of age, and a resident of Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

She was allowed, also, one hundred sixty acres
of bounty land on her application executed April 3, 1856, still living in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

The papers on file in these claims contain no
further discernible data in regard to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of
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this pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the widow, Selah Moody, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:

Selah Moody, widow of Thomas Moody
Certificate # 5880
Issued August 6, 1836
Rate $51.55 per annum
Commenced February 3, 1853
Act of February 3, 1853
Georgia Agency.

If you desire information in regard to location
of the bounty land referred to herein, it is suggested that you apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and cite the following data;

Warrant:  #40506 - 160 acres - Act of 1855.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 22. 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," The widow of Thomas Moody, deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia Agency, at the rate of fifty one Dollars and fifty five Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1836 to the 10th November 1836, the day of his death -
Respectfully, yours,-
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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40,506

Rev Army
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No. 6014
Selah Moody
widow of Thomas
Ga.

__ C.C. Tucker Sept 15 / 55

Act Feby 3, 1853
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Lexington Ga
July 22 / 56

Dear Sir:
An aged client Mrs. Moody, for some time  past has been severely afflicted & unable to transact any business - She is still so low that I would not dare disturb her - You will therefore  have to --- the best you can- I understand  from your letters that you desired the additional papers merely as a matter of time - that you already have sufficient evidence to prosecute both her claims to a successful termination.  Let me hear from you as it may become necessary -
Yours Truly
Geo. T. Landrum

P.S. We  have written to the Jordans - no answer yet -
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Washington D.C. July 26. 1856.

Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir.
Your letter under date of Sept 15. 1855. in reference to the Revolutionary Pension Claim of Mrs Selah Moody, widow of Thomas of Georgia under the Act of Feb 3. 1853. came to hand
I am informed by the within letter from G. T. Landrum Esq. that in consequence of the extreme age. and infirmity of Mrs Moody. we cannot at least for the present obtain further evidence for the claim. We are therefore constrained to wait until the Bounty Land Claim is reached for examination.
The number of the Bounty Land Claim is 209.086
Act of March 1855.

Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
Chas. C. Tucker -

I find a declaration from Mr Moody. with proof of
identity &c. and send it enclosed.
C. C. T.-

Enc.
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Washington D. C. Sept 7th

Hon. J. Minot.
Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir,
Enclosed please find application for a Revolutionary Pension under the act of February 3, 1853 of Mrs Selah Moody widow of Thomas. of Ga.
Proof of identity, death of the soldier and present widowhood of the claimant will be found
attached to her declaration claiming Bounty
Land under the act of March 3, 1855, this day
filed.
Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servt.
Chas.C. Tucker -
For this evidence see Bounty land claim Register
number 209,086.
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Thomas Moody - 

Admit a, a private
15 no. L 14 days
$51.55

Geo. W. Dudley
Lexington
Ga.

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Thomas Moody which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?  yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No

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

XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct? yes

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? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 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 saith, 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 service I claim a pension.
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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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
+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 in which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths  must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
++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 of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
>In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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10,951.
Claim of Thomas Moody
Revolutionary Soldier
1832
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Georgia } 
Oglethorpe County } Personally came before Henry T. Dawson a Justice of the Peace in & for the Lexington District of the County & State aforesaid & being duly sworn deposes & says that from conversations held with Thomas Moody he knows that he must have served the three months tour described by him in his declaration for a pension (which this deponent has seen) with this deponent - that is to say the three months he served in the lower part of Virginia about Suffolk, Makey's Mills, in Isle of
Wight & along there -  for this deponent
performed the same tour under the same
officers & from our mutual conferences
on the subject of this tour, deponent knows
that no one could state a number of title
circumstances connected with that service as he does without having been present & taking part therein-- but deponent never got acquainted with said Moody in the service but knows he must have belonged to the same Regiment  although he might be & probably was in a different company
Isham Rainey
Sworn to & subscribed before me this fourth of September eighteen hundred & thirty two.
H. T. Dawson J. P.
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Georgia }
Oglethorpe County ⎬ We the undersigned Justices of the Inferior Court while sitting for ordinary purposes do hereby certify that Henry. T. Dawson who has taken the foregoing affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace for the County & State aforesaid that his signature as such is entitled to full faith & credit. Given under our hands this fourth day of September eighteen hundred & thirty two -
John Banks J.I.C.
Edwd Coxe J.I.C
Bur. Pope J.I.C

Georgia }
Oglethorpe County ⎬ I Henry Jordan a Justice of the Peace of the Lexington district in & for said County do hereby certify that I am the successor in office of Henry T. Dawson Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken. that I have been for some years acquainted with Isham Rainey the deponent who has subscribed & sworn to the same that I believe him entitled to the fullest credit. I also believe him to have bourne a small share of our revolutionary struggle in his own person. Given under under my hand this 19th day of July 1833. 
Henry Jordan J.P.
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Georgia }
Oglethorpe County ⎬ I William H. Smith Clerk of
the Court of Ordinary in & for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry Jordan who has made & subscribed the foregoing certificate is the immediate successor in office of Henry T. Dawson, the Justice of the Peace who took the within affidavit & that said Jordan's signature is genuine. I also certify that I am personally acquainted with Isham Rainey
the deponent & believe him to be a person every
way entitled to the fullest credit.
Given under my hand & seal of office this 19th day of July 1833-
William H. Smith. Clk
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Affidavit of Robert
Colquitt & Larkin
Smith in support of
the claim of Thomas
Moody for a pension
1832.
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Georgia }
Oglethorpe County }
Personally came before Henry T. Dawson a Justice of the Peace for  the County & State aforesaid Robert Colquitt a soldier of the Revolution who being duly sworn deposes & says that Thomas Moody, who is about to present his claim for a pension under the act of Congress passed seventh June of the present year served three months with deponent in the war of the Revolution in the lower part of the  State of Virginia  - & deponent knows that said Thomas Moody started out with Gates at the time of his defeat. And at the same time comes Larkin Smith who testifies on oath that he was with Thomas Moody in the same tour of three months to which the said Robert Colquitt has above testified -
Robert Colquitt
Larkin Smith 
Sworn to & subscribed before me- this fourth day of September eighteen hundred & thirty two. 
H. T.  Dawson J.P.

We the undersigned Justices of the Inferior Court
of Oglethorpe County do hereby certify that Henry T. Dawson, before whom the foregoing affidavit has been taken is a Justice of the Peace for the Lexington district in said County & as such is legally authorized to administer oaths & that his signature is genuine & is entitled to full faith & credit. Given under our hands in open Court this fourth day of September eighteen hundred & thirty two.
Edwd Coxe J I.C
John Banks J.I.C.
Bur. Pope J.I.C
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Georgia }
Oglethorpe County }
I Henry Jordan a Justice of the Peace of the Lexington District in said County do hereby
certify that I am the successor in office of Henry. T. Dawson Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken - That I have been for a long time acquainted with Robert Colquitt & Larkin Smith, the deponents who have subscribed & sworn to the same, & believe them both to be men of the strictest veracity &  honesty & that I consider their testimony in every respect unexceptionable. I also certify that I believe them to have been old enough to have taken part in the Revolutionary War. Given under my hand this 19th day of July 1833. 
Henry Jordan J.P.

Georgia }
Oglethorpe County ⎬ I William. H. Smith Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in & for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry Jordan who has made & subscribed the above certificate is the immediate successor of Henry. T. Dawson, the Justice of the Peace who took the within affidavit, & that his signature is genuine. I also certify that that I am personally acquainted with the deponents, & believe them to be men of the strictest veracity entitled to the fullest credit.
Given under my hand & seal of office this 19th day of July 1833.
William H Smith Clk
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Brief in the case of Selah Moody, widow of Thomas Moody = Oglethorpe County and State of Georgia - act February 3, 1853.

Claim, ("original,")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, tradionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband of Claimant was a pensioner under act
of June 7, 1832 at rate of $51.55 per annum
Marriage (29th December 1830) proved by certified transcripts from County Court records -
Death of husband (Nov. 18, 1836) shown by 3rd
Auditor's Certificate and panel.

(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? Identity of Claimant as widow of the pensioner and her present widowhood proved by Henry Britain, Lewis J Dupree, and other credible
witnesses -
Allowance accordingly.

R Geddes
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
C. C. Tucker Esq
Washington, D.C.
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Amended 
Declaration
of
Thomas Moody
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The Amendatory Declaration of Thomas
Moody, made in order to obtain the benefit
of an act of Congress passed 7th June 1832
upon the subject of Revolutionary Pensioners
of the United States, his original declaration
not having been authenticated according to
the Rules & Regulations of the War Department.

State of Georgia }
Oglethorpe County ⎬ Personally appeared before Henry Jordan a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid, Thomas Moody, a Revolutionary Soldier who makes oath
of the following amendatory declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. That a short time before he made his original declaration for a Pension he applied to the Revd John Lacey a minister of the gospel of the Baptist Church, who has lived as near him as any other minister & who was certainly better acquainted with him than any other to testify his belief of deponent having served in the  American War during the struggle for our independence & he promised to be present at Court when deponent should make his declaration & said he would cheerfully testify according to the  requirement of the War Department; but on the day he failed to attend for reasons which he himself will state on oath at the foot of this this declaration which statement when made deponent prays may be taken as a part of this his amendatory declaration: That on the former occasion it was considered sufficient that he should furnish the testimony of two credible persons even though one of them were not a minister of the gospel, he accordingly furnished two good witnesses one of whom was a member of the legislature. That he has now had his papers corrected in the particulars marked out by the instructions accompanying the return of his original declaration
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& he now enclose the original declaration with the amendments & instructions & claims his Pension according to law. 
Thos. Moody
Sworn to & subscribed before
me this 19th day of July 1833 -
Henry London J.P.

State of Georgia}
Oglethorpe County}  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County John Lacy who being duly sworn deposes & says that he is a minister of the Gospel & that he was applied to by Mr. Thomas Moody the person who has made & subscribed the foregoing amendatory declaration, to bear witness of his belief that said Moody had served in the Revolutionary War & that he engaged to do so at the time he (Moody) made his original declaration; but was prevented from doing so by having had to attend to his clerical duties over a distant charge from whence he could not reach the Court house in time to fulfil his engagement with Mr. Moody - That he has been personally acquainted with the said Thomas Moody about thirty four years - that it is the opinion of the neighborhood that Mr. Moody was a Revolutionary soldier & that deponent always concurred in that opinion
John Lacy M. G
Sworn to & subscribed before
me this 19th day of July 1833
Henry Jordan J.P.

State of Georgia }
Oglethorpe County ⎬
I Henry Jordan a Justice of the Peace in for said County & State do certify that John Lacy who has made & subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a minister of the Gospel & a credible person. 
Given under my hand
& seal this 19th July 1833
Henry Jordan J.P.
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State of Georgia }
Oglethorpe County ⎬ I, William H. Smith Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said County & by virtue there - of Register of Probates, do hereby certify that Henry Jordan before whom the foregoing depositions were made was at the time an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that
his signature as such is genuine.
Witness my hand & seal of office
this 19th July 1833. -
William H Smith Clk
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25732
Selah Moody
Widow of
Thomas Moody
Priv. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 3" 1853
Index: - Vol. M, Page 66

[Arrangement of 1870.]

194 [illegible] y. 24 - hist to Paxton H. Gri [illegible] awf
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Rev. Pension Claim }
Act of 1853            }

Hon. J. Minot.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D.C. 

Selah Moody
wid.
Thomas

T. Ga

Triplett
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No 6014.
Selah Moody
widow of Thomas
Oglethorpe County - Georgia

- admitted Act Feby 3 / 53
at rate of $51.55 c per
annum commencing
at date of said acts

- Husband private Infantry
15 months & 14 days

- Pay widow

- Certificate to 
C.C. Tucker Esq
Washington, D C.
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Hon. J. Minot.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington D.C.

Selah Moody 
wid
Thomas

Jul 39

Triplett
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3d. Auditor's office
August 5. 18--

Sir,
Thomas Moody, Ga, Act 1832, at $51.55 per ann
died 10 Nov. 1836 & his pension has been paid
in full to that date to Sely Moody his widow.
mind & Esq
very Respy
Rob J Atkinson
Auditor

J Minot Esq
Commr of Pensions
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18 Novr 1856
Reby T Moody

Pension office - Aug 2, 1856.
The Third auditor will please certify the date of last payment to within named pensioner, and name of widow if she receiving arrears.
Very respectfully,
R. McRae
For Commissioner

3392
Gidds
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Shreveport La.
April 16, 1940

Veterans Administration,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:
Will you, at your earliest, possible convenience, send me the Revolutionary War Pension Records on the following names below? 

One
1 James Grigsby {  Resided in old Ninety-Six District  Edgefield County South Carolina before 1785. (Settled in Wilkes Co. Georgia in 1785.) Think he fought in So. Carolina Line, Who were his brothers. He had one named John, named after Capt Soldier John Grigsby (his uncle) Who 
was his other brothers that drew a Pension in Am. Rev. War?

2 Robert Smith { In "Georgia's Roster of the Revolution"  written by Lucien Lander Knight  it shows Robt Smith, of Ninety Six Distrr - Edgefield County South Carolina for Petitions for bounty in Georgia Wilkes Co.) upon Certificate annexed, (missing) He settled in Wilkes County, Georgia around 1785.  Who were his brothers that fought in Am. Rev. War?

3. Thomas Moody { Resided in old Wilkes County Georgia before Wilkes was divided in other counties or else it shows he was residing in Oglethorpe County Georgia after 1800 My will shows (1836) Who were his brother? Did they have Am. Rev. War Pensions?
Thanking you as to the above information
I remain
Very truly yours,
Paxton H. Grigsby.

1836 Irving Place.

APR 18 1940
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