Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9896, Gabriel Williams, Md.
Page 1

Service
MD

Name
Williams, Gabriel
Margaret

Number
W.9896
Page 2

5220
Virginia
Gabriel Williams
Sergeant
Maryland Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 28 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Jany 1819 and sent to Thomas Wilson, Esq.
Morgantown, Monongalia, VA

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 $33.86
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1819 $48.00
$81.86

{Revolutionary claim Act 18th March 1818}

2 years war
Continued

Monongalia Co.
Page 3

Notification of continuance issued and sent to care of Hon: E.B. Jackson, House of Reps. January 5th 1822

See letter to T.P. Ray
January 31, 1821
Page 4

Indiana 5902
Margaret Williams
widow of Gabriel Williams
Md
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 20 Nov 1827
of Henry Co. in the state of Indiana
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded
by Captain Mason of the regt commanded 
by Col. Gunby in the Maryland
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the roll of Madison Indiana
at the rate of 120 dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued 13th day of Nov 1840 and sent to R. Berkshire
New Castle, Inda.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1840 $540.00
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Mar '41 $60.00
$600.00

{Act July 7, 1838}

recorded by D. Brown - clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 222
Page 5

State of Indiana
Henry County

In the Henry Circuit Court Spring Term 1840

Be it known that personally appeared in open court on the first day of May in the year of our lord eighteen hundred & forty, Margaret Williams, and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of Gabriel Williams the identical person who was a revolutionary pensioner and is now dead and to whom a certificate of pension was issued and which certificate was forwarded on to the proper department to enable her to draw the arrearages of his pension from the last time he drew up to the time of his death, that the deceased pensioner resided in Monongalia  County in the state of Virginia for the space of seventeen years or upward before his death that he died in the year 1827 in said county of Monongalia  that previous thereto he resided a short time in Berkley County in the state of Virginia and previous to which he resided in the county of Washington in the state of Maryland and that she was married to the said Gabriel Williams on the 22nd day of June in the year of our lord seventeen hundred and eighty four (1784) by the Rev W. Powel and obtained a certificate of said marriage which certificate she has lost and that she knows of no recorded evidence of said marriage that they were after lived together as man and wife until the time of his death and ever since remains a widow and now resides in
Page 6

the county of Henry said state of Indiana and has so resided for the last six years to where she removed form the county of Monongalia and state of Virginia aforesaid that she was left to her said husband nearly destitute of property and still remains poor and very feeble, living on the bounty of one of her sons who is in very moderate circumstances that she is now seventy six years of age last March.

Margaret Williams
Her X Mark

Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 1st day of May AD 1840

Witness Eli Murphey, Clerk of the Henry Circuit Court & its seal this 1st day of May 1840.

Eli Murphey - Clerk
Page 7

Left Side Page

VA No 5v

Gabriel Williams

No. 5220

Con
I.L.E.

T.P. Ray
agt
Morgantown, VA

Hon E B Jackson
H.R.

Right Side Page

illegible papers in the case of Joseph Sopp
Page 8

Virginia

Be it remembered that at a County court hold in and for the county of Monongalia  at the courthouse of the said county on Tuesday the 27th of June in the year 1820 and 44th year of the Commonwealth, personally appeared in open court being a court of record, which proceed according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings Gabriel Williams aged about 66 years resident of said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: he enlisted in the year 1776 under Capt. Uriah Forrest in what is called the flying camp for five months was in the battle of Long Island and then discharged. In 1778 he was drafted in Capt. John Carbray's company he hired a substitute and then substituted himself in Capt. Jonathan Morrisson's company where he served nine months during which time he was in the battle of Monmouth where he received a flesh wound in the hip in taking care of his first captain who was then Col. Forrest his horse being killed under him and himself wounded in the thigh so that it was afterwards amputated said Williams was then discharged and on the 6th day of February 1780 he enlisted for during the war in Capt. Mason's company in the 7th Maryland Regt. commanded by Col. John Gunby he was marched to North Carolina and was in the battle of Camden at what is called Gates defeat, was afterwards in a battle near the same placed called the Surprise was then in the battle at the Eutaw Springs then in the infantry under Col. Howard, was then in the battle of the Cowpens, he was at that taking of Cornwallis he was honourably (honorably) discharged in 1783 at Annapolis, Maryland by General Smallwood there being
Page 9

almost destitute of clothing sold his pay amounting to ninety pounds, fifteen shillings to one Major Bailey for fifteen pounds in goods and gave him his discharge to enable him to get the pay since which he has never had his discharge or applied for it, believing it was of no use to him, that he has no other evidence in his power that he made his declaration in order to obtain the provisions of the act of congress of the 18th of March 1818 before the aforesaid court on the 28th of April 1818 and obtained a certificate from the secretary of war date 7 day of January 1819 and numbered 5220 on the back of said certificate. And I the said Gabriel Williams do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March in the year 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of congress entitles "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following schedule which together with this declaration I have subscribed to wit:
One Horse, 15 or 16 hogs, little [illegible], 3 cows, one calf, 5 or 6 sheep, one old table, 6 old chairs, 1 old chest, 6 cups & saucers, 6 knives & forks, a pewter dish, 6 pewter plates, 6 deep [illegible], 2 pots, 3 kettles, 1 tea kettle, 1 oven, 1 skillet, 2 plows and guard, 3 hoes, 2 axes, 1 fluke harrow, 1 mattock, 2 buckets, 1 churn, and some old tubs and 2 sad irons.

(signed)
Gabriel Williams
His X Mark

his wife Margaret aged about 58 or 59 years and one son aged about
Page 10

16 years old is all the family he has living with him except a daughter and her child sometimes satays with him, he lives on rented land, has lately broke his leg and is not able to do much work he has no trade.

Sworn to and declared before the aforesaid court the day and year first mentioned.

Virginia

I Nimrod Evans, clerk of the County court of Monongalia  do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred thirty-three dollars 25 cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Morgantown, the 12th of July 1820 & 44 year of the Commonwealth.

N. Evans - Clerk of County Court at Monongalia 

SEAL
Page 11

State of Indiana
Henry County

Be it remembered that on this 17th day of August AD one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Samuel Hoover sole judge of the Henry County Probate Court (the same being in vacation) Margaret Williams a resident of Prairie Township in the county of Henry and State of Indiana aged seventy-six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" that she is the widow of Gabriel Williams who was a private in the revolutionary war and who was a revolutionary pensioner to whom a certificate was granted which certificate was forwarded to the War Department to enable her to draw the arrearages of pension due her said husband from the time he last drew up to the time of his death; that said Gabriel Williams resided in Monongalia County in the state of Virginia at the time he was placed on the pension roll and so resided for the space of seventeen years and upwards previous to which he resided a short time in Berkley County in said State of Virginia and previous thereto he resided in Washington County in the state of Maryland. She further declares that she was married to the said Gabriel Williams on the twenty second day of June in the year AD seventeen hundred and eighty-four (1784) by the Reverence M. Powell in said state of Maryland and obtained his certificate of the same but have long since lost it that she knows of no record evidence of her said marriage nor of any person now living who saw the marriage or was present at the time and further says that she and the said Gabriel Williams ever after the said marriage lived together as man and wife until his death and that she still lives his widow and has never since been married, that her said husband the said Gabriel Williams died on the 20th day of November AD one
Page 12

thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven (1827) that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the army, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four (viz) at the time above stated.

Margaret Williams
Her X Mark

Saml Hoover
Attest R. Berkshire

Swor to and subscribed on the day and year above written before

Saml Hoover - J.P.C.H.C.

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Saml Hoover sole judge of the Henry count Probate Court certify that Margaret Williams the above applicant was unable to attend the court from bodily infirmity. Given under myhand this 17th day of August AD 1840.

Saml Hoover

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Eli Murphey clerk of the Henry Circuit Court &  an official clerk of the Henry Probate Court, certify that Samuel Hoover is sole judge of the said Henry Probate Court that the same is a court of record & that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness Eli Murphey Clerk of the said Henry Probate Court & the seal thereof this 21st day of August 1840.

Eli Murphey - Clerk
Page 13

Gabriel Williams
P.C. 5220
Declaration

Maryland Rolls (scratched out)

Admitted
Page 14

Virginia

Be it remembered that at a court held in and for the county of Monongalia at the courthouse of the said county by the worshipful the Justices hereof on Tuesday the 28th day of April AD 1818 - Gabriel Williams aged about sixty-two years an inhabitant of the said county and native of Maryland personally appeared before the said court and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God declares and says That he is an inhabitant of the said county - that he enlisted as a soldier in the army of the United States on the 6th day of February in the year 1780 to serve during the war under the command of Capt. Mason where he served as sergeant in the 7th Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. John Gundy and first brigade under Gen. Smallwood and served until the year 1782 when he was discharged by the said Gen. Smallwood at Annapolis which discharge he sold with his arrears of pay and that he is not well able to support himself by labor and that he has not an estate sufficient to support himself without labor therefore he prays for relief under the act of congress entitled "AN act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war".

Here follows an affidavit accompanying the said declaration 

State of Virginia
Monongalia County

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the above county Charles Dowd and made oath that he the said Charles Dowd was personally acquainted with Gabriel Williams who served as a sergeant in Capt. Thomas Mason company seventh Maryland regiment and that he the said Gabriel Williams served in said regiment until the conclusion of the revolutionary war.

Given under my hand this d17th day of March 1818

Adam Brown - Justice of the Peace

all which is ordered to be certified so the act of congress agreeable to the [illegible] of act of Congress providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.
Page 15

and also be it remembered that at a court held for the county of Monongalia  at the courthouse of the said county by the worhsipful the Justices thereof on Monday the 22nd day of June AD 1818 - it was ordered that the clerk of the court further certify to the secretary for the department of war that the said Gabriel Williams is unable to support himself and is in absolute need of the assistance of his county for support.

Virginia

I Nimrod Evans clerk of the county court of Monongalia do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the records taken in court by the within named Gabriel Williams and entered on the minutes of said court and I further certify that the within affidavits are true copies of the original filed in my office and that Adam Brown before whom the said affidavit was made was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such - i further certify that certificate made at the June term following of said court is also a true copy - as the record and proceeding will show.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and sela (there being no seal at present of my said office) at Morgantown in the county aforesaid this 6th day of July AD 1818 - & 43 year or our independence.

N Evans - Clerk/SEAL
Page 16

February the 22 1831

Clark Williams was born in December the 3 1784, Abigail Williams was born in December the 10 1786, Elizabeth Williams was born in September the 9 1788, Ruth Williams was born in December the 15th 1790, John Williams was born in December the 6 1792, Gabriel Williams was born in December the 21, 1795, Mark Williams was born in January the 18 1797, Sinthy Williams was born in March the 9 1799, Margaret Williams was born in November the 10, 1801, Otho Williams was born in November the 4, 1803, the last was born in July the 8, 1808.
John Williams departed this life November 18, 1806 in the fifteenth year of his age, Margaret Williams departed this life March the 1 1809, Sinthy Williams departed this life on the 4 day of February in the 32 year of her age 1831, Gabriel Williams departed this life on the 24 of November in the year one 1827 in the seventy-fifth year of his age.
Page 17

State of Indiana
Henry County

Be it remembered that on the 27th day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty personally came before me Alfred H Hinson one of the justices of the peace in and for said county, Otho Williams of full age being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the annexed family record was copied off by him the said deponent from the original and that it is a true copy thereof, all but the date at top viz (February the 22, 1831) which is the date he copied of the same and the death below to wit the deaths of John Williams, Margaret Williams and the death of Gariel Williams and the family record on the back that the original record was on a slip of paper folded up and by the frequent use made of it and [illegible] had thereto the said original became worn out at the fold, torn in pieces an so mutilated that on the 22nd day of February 1831 he deponent copied the same of to preserve the ages of the family and knowing it was of any other service the original was ultimately destroyed and not a visage of it left as known of by deponent or any other person as he knows or believes that said original is the only record of the family record ever known so far as deponent knows of or believes. deponent further says that from his knowledge of his father the said Gabriel Williams handwriting and from what he has frequently saw of said original record it was kept in the handwriting of his said father
Page 18

Gabriel Williams and in his possession during his lifetime

Otho Williams

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of October 1840 and I hereby certify that the deponent Otho Williams is a creditable witness and this I can safely state from my own knowledge of him.

Given under my hand and seal the date & year above.

Alfred H Stinson - JP - SEAL
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Eli Murphey Clerk of the Henry Circuit Court certify that Alfred H Stinson is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness my hand & the seal of our said court this 28th day of October AD 1840.

Eli Murphey - Clerk
Page 19

Otho Williams and Ruth S Hale was married on the twenty third of August Eighteen hundred and thirty-one by Thomas P Maple of Greenmount Pennsylvania. Albert Williams, son of Otho L Williams, and Ruth S Williams his wife was born Oct 28 1832
Page 20

State of Indiana
Henry County

Be it remembered that this day personally came before me Abraham Elliott a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Clark Williams, who after being by me duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is now over fifty-four years of age and that he is the son of Gabriel Williams and Margaret Williams as has always understood and so acknowledged by them ever since his recollection, he further saith that his father the said Gabriel was in his lifetime placed on the pension roll at the proper office of the United States that he drew a pension until his death in the year 1827 and that the said Margaret lived with her said husband the said Gabriel from the time of his deponents recollection unti his death as above stated and that during said time they were known as man and wife - legally married & so known & believed in all legal proceedings as well as in all other relations in society they had many other children together besides this deponent. This deponent further saith that the said Margaret is still living the widow of said Gabriel and is now living in Henry County in the state of Indiana where she has resided for the last six years and ever since she returned from Monongalia County in the state of Virginia where her said husband died.

Clark Williams
His X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed this 12th day of March 1840

Witness my hand and seal

Abraham Elliott - JP SEAL
Page 21

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Eli Murphey clerk of the Henry Circuit Court certify that Abraham Elliott is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to his is genuine.

Witness my hand & the seal of said court this 6th day of Mary AD 1840.

Eli Murphey - Clerk

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Abraham Elliott a justice of the peace in and for said county do hereby certify that I have satisfactory evidence that Clark Williams who was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a man of truth and veracity & respectability.

Given under my hand & seal.

Abraham Elliott - JP SEAL
Page 22

Rev and 1812
Wars Section
EEL

July 27, 1929

Miss Hassel Williams
Mt. Summit
Indiana

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the revolutionary war pension claim W.9896, it appears that Gabriel Williams enlisted in 1776, served five months as a private in Captain Uriah Forrest's company of the Maryland Flying Camp and was in the battle of Long Island.

He enlisted in 1778 as served nine months in Captain Jonathan Morris' Maryland Company; was in the battle of Monmouth where he received a flesh wound in the hip.

He enlisted February 6, 1780, served as a sergeant in Captain Thomas Mason's company, Colonel John Gunby's Maryland regiment, was in the battles of Camden, Surprise, Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, at the taking of Cornwallis and was discharged February 6, 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 25, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-two years and was a resident of Monongalia County, Virginia.
Page 23

He died November 20, 1827, in Monongalia County, Virginia where he had lived for seventeen years.

He had previously lived in Berkley County, Virginia, and in Washington County, Maryland.

The soldier married June 22, 1784, in Maryland, Margaret (her maiden name not given) who was born in March 1764.

She was allowed pension on her application executed May 1, 1840, at which time she was residing in Prairie Township, Henry County, Indiana.

Children of Gabriel and Margaret Williams:

Clark - born December 3, 1784
Abigail - born December 10, 1786
Elizabeth - born September 9, 1788
Ruth - born December 15, 1790, married Pickenpaw
John - born December 1792, died December 18, 1806
Gabriel - born December 21, 1795
Mark - born January 18, 1797
Sinthy or Syntha - born March 9, 1799 - died February 4, 1831
Margaret - born November 10, 1801 - died March 1, 1809
Otho - born November 4, 1803
Last son - born July 8, 1808 - no name given.

The following also appears on the family record:
Otho L. Williams and ruth S. Hale were married August 23, 1831. albert Williams, son of Otho L. Williams and Ruth S. Williams his wife, was born October 25, 1832

Very truly yours

Earl D Church
Commissioner
Page 24

The following is a true copy of the original to wit

Clark Williams was born in November the 3 1784
Abigail Williams was born in December the 10 1786
Elizabeth Williams was born in September the 9, 1788
Ruth Williams was born in December the 15 1790
John Williams was born in December the 6, 1792
Gabriel Williams was born in December the 21, 1795
Mark Williams was born in January the 18 1797
Syntha Williams was born in March the 9, 1799
Margaret Williams was born in November the 10, 1800
Otho Williams was born in November the 4 1803
The last was born in July the 8, 1808

State of Indian
Henry County

Be it remembered that on this 28th day of August AD 1840 personally appeared before me Alfred H Stinson a justice of the peace in and for the county of Henry aforesaid, Otho Williams of full age and after being by me duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the above is a true copy of the original record kept in the family of Gabriel Williams now deceased - that the original of which the above is a true copy was in the hand writing of his father the said Gabriel Williams dec'd and that there was no other family or other record of births, marriages, or other ages in the family of the said Gabriel deceased as this deponent knows of he further says that the said Gabriel Williams deceased died on
Page 25

the 20th day of November AD 1827 eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and that his mother Margaret Williams is the widow of the said Gabriel Williams deceased, that she has never since been married but still remains his widow and further saith not.

Otho Williams - SEAL

Sworn to and subscribed this 20th August 1840 before me and I do hereby certify that the deponent Otho Williams is a man of truth and a creditable witness. 

Given under my hand & Seal

A H Stinson - JP SEAL

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Eli Murphey clerk of the Henry Circuit Court, certify that Alfred H Stinson Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made & subscribed is a magistrate as above that the foregoing certificate & signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness my hand & the seal of said court this 21st day of August AD 1840.

Eli Murphey - Clerk
Page 26

I enclose you the papers in Mrs. Williams case hoping they are sufficient. If any deficiency I hope you will apprise me at an early period.

Very respectfully yours

Janes Rariden

Hon. J L Edwards
Page 27

State of Indiana
Henry County

Be it remembered that this day personally came before me Abraham Elliott a Justice of the Peace in and for said Ralph Berkshire who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with the late Gabriel Williams deceased, in the county of Monongalia and State of Virginia for sixteen or eighteen ears, also with his wife Margaret Williams, that they the Gabriel and Margaret lived together as man and wife during said time and that they were known as husband and wife in all legal proceedings as well as in all other relations in society and that the deponent has frequently heard the said Gabriel say they were legally married by some minister of the gospel in Maryland said deponent further saith that said Margaret still remains the widow of said Gabriel and now resides in Henry County and State of Indiana where she has resided for the last six years, that she is very old, feeble, and poor living with one of her sons and deponent further says that said Gabriel Williams was placed on the pension roll as a revolutionary pensioner on account of is indigent circumstances at the rate of eight dollars per month or ninety-six dollars a year, he thinks under the law of Congress of 1818 that said deponent drew said Gabriels pension for him some two or three times & perhaps oftener that one George McNeely drew it afterwards and that Nathan Goff of Morgantown Monongalia County
Page 28

and state of Virginia aforesaid drew the balance of the pension due from the last time said Gabriel received his said pension up to the time of his death, perhaps in the year 1827 or 1828 in behalf of his said widow at which time the pension papers was sent on to the department of War as deponent their understood and [illegible] and further saith not.

Ralph Berkshire

Sworn to and subscribed this 6th day of May 1840. Witness my hand and seal

Abraham Elliott - JP SEAL

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Eli Murphey Clerk of the Henry Circuit Court certify that Abraham Elliott is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness my hand and the seal of our said court this 6th day of May AD 1840.

Eli Murphey - Clerk

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Abraham Eliott a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Ralph Berkshire who was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a man of truth, veracity and respectability.

Given under my hand and seal.

Abraham Elliott - JP SEAL
Page 29

Congress Hall
Feby 27th 1821

Sir

The signatures of the within letters & affidavits are of the most respectable gentleman, Monongalia County, Va. I should be pleased if a decision could be had & made known to me previous to the recess of Congress.

Very respectfully
Yours with high regard

E B Jackson

Honorable J C Calhoun
Page 30

Hon J. Rariden
H.R.
Page 31

Know all men by these present that I Margaret Williams of the County of Henry and state of Indiana widow of Gabriel Williams late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint the Honorable James Rariden of Wayne County in the state of Indiana aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my use to receive from the pension office or other proper office all such pension as I may be entitled to under the law or laws of congress respecting the widows of deceased pensioners. Witness my hand and seal this 1st day of May 1840

Margaret Williams
Her X Mark
SEAL

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of R Berkshire

State of Indiana
Henry County

As it remembered that on this 1st day of May 1840 there personally appeared in open court the above-named Margaret Williams & acknowledged that she signed, sealed and delivered the foregoing power of attorney to be her act for the purpose therein expressed.

Witness my hand & seal of said court the date above written.

Eli Murphey - Clerk
Page 32

Washington May 12 1840

Sir

I enclose you some papers for pension money - be pleased to inform me what the widow is entitled to under the law supposing the facts stated to be true.

Very respectfully

Jas Rariden

Comm of Pensions
Page 33

Prairie Township , Henry County Indiana
Aug 7th 1840

J.L. Edwards, Esq. Pension Agent

Sir

Please send whatever money may be coming to me and my pension papers to my attorney in fact to draw my pension. The Honorable James Rariden at his residence in Centerville, Wayne County State of Indiana.

And oblige yours & c

Margaret Williams
Her X Mark

Teste
R Berkshire
Page 34

The following is a true copy of the original (viz)

Clark Williams was born in December the 3 1784 (Seventeen hundred eighty-four)
Abagail Williams was born in December the 10 1786 (seventeen hundred eighty-six)
Elizabeth Williams was born in September the 9, 1788 (seventeen hundred eighty-eight)
Ruth Williams was born in December the 15 1790 (seventeen hundred ninety)
John Williams was born in December the 6, 1792 (seventeen hundred ninety-two)
Gabriel Williams was born in December the 21, 1795 (seventeen hundred ninety-five)
Mark Williams was born in January the 18, 1797 (seventeen hundred ninety-seven)
Syntha Williams was born in March the 9, 1799 (seventeen hundred ninety-nine)
Margaret Williams was born in November the 10, 1801 (Eighteen hundred and one)
Otho Williams was born in November the 4, 1803 (eighteen hundred and three)
The last was born in July the 8, 1818 (eighteen hundred & eight)

State of Indiana
Henry County

Be it remembered that on this 20th day of August AD 1840 personally appeared before me Alfred H Stinson a justice of the peace in and for the county of Henry aforesaid - Clark Williams of full age and after being by me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the above is a true copy from the original family record kept in the family of Gabriel Williams deceased except this writing of the year included in brackets above was not in the original record, that he knows the original was kept in the handwriting of his father the said Gabriel Williams deceased and that the saw him set down several of the names & births of the above and that there was no other family record kept in the family deponent knows of - he further says that he
Page 35

was born in the year 1784 and that he has always understood both from his said father and Margaret Williams his month that they were legally married and it was understood & believed in the neighborhood where they lived by all who knew them & that they lived together as man & wife until his death and their marriage never doubted as deponent knows or believes, that his mother the said Margaret Williams drew the balance of pension due from the time her said husband last drew up to the time of his death which was on the 20th day of November in the year AD 1827 at his residence in Monongalia County in the state of Virginia; that his mother the said Margaret Williams has never since married but still remains the widow of the said Gabriel Williams deceased.

Clark Williams
His X Mark
SEAL

Sworn to and subscribed before me and I do hereby certify that the deponent Clark Williams is considered a man of truth and that he is a creditable witness.

Given under my hand and seal this 20th day of August AD 1840.

A H Stinson - JP SEAL
Page 36

State of Indiana
Henry County

I Eli Murphey Clerk of the Henry Circuit Court certify that Alfred H Stinson Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken & subscribed is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness my hand & the seal of said court this 21st day of August AD 1840.

Eli Murphey - Clerk
Page 37

VA
Morgan Town 31st Oct 1821

I must again trouble the Department for information about Gabriel Williams' application to be continued on the revolutionary pension list roll of Virginia - He is now with me and very uneasy not hearing from you on the subject. I hope a line on the subject will be addressed to him or myself as soon as convenient.

Respectfully yours

Thos P Ray

Honorable J C Calhoun
Sec of War
Page 38

New Castle, Oct 29th, 1840

Hon'be James Rariden

D Sir

Enclose I send you the further evidence in the Margaret Williams case for pension.

The original kept in the hand writing of Gabriel Williams deceased being entirely destroyed, the copy taken by Otho Williams, in the year 1831 is the only evidence of a family record now in existence - the paper annexed to the enclosed deposition can be proven by other witnesses (say Clark Williams & perhaps Ruth Pickenpaw formerly Ruth Williams, and that the original is now destroyed as it was much mutilated when it was copied off by Otho Williams in 1831 and no care was taken of it after that time. Please forward the papers as soon as convenient and ask an early reply as the old lady is infirm and in great need of means for her comfort for, she is very poor and destitute of proper means for her support and her children are in possessions of but small means to assist her. Be so good as to let me hear the result as soon as you hear from the department.

Yours truly
Obedient service

R. Berkshire
Page 39

7021
Margaret Williams
of Gabriel
Indiana

Admitted
Sergt 3 yrs $120
Capt. Mason Col Gunby Md

died 20 Nov 1827

Act 7 July 1838

R Berkshire
New Castle
Indiana
Page 40

Auditor's Office, Annapolis, Nov 12th, 1821

I hereby certify that it appears from the muster rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office that Gabl Williams enlisted as a Sergt in the 7th Maryland Regiment on the 6th day of Feby 1780 and was discharged on the 6th Feby 1783.

Thos Karney - Aud. S. M.
Page 41

Left Side Page

1929 July 27 - Hist to Miss Hassel Williams

Right Side Page

Revy
WIDOW, etc.
File No 9896
Margaret Williams
Wid of
Gabriel Williams
Seft. Md Line

Act: July 7, '38

Index Vol M Page 340
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 42

April 2-1929

Commissioner of Pensions
Wash. D.C.

Dear sir:

You have been referred to me by the War Dept as being able to give me some additional information concerning the Revolutionary War service of Gabriel Williams, born 1752, died Nov 1827 in Monongalia County, W. Va.

I do not know where he enlisted but he moved from Maryland to W. Va in 1812. Wife Margaret Lytton.

Thanking you for any help you may give me I am, 

yours truly

Miss Hassel Williams
Mt. Summit Ind.

US PENSION OFFICE SEAL Apr 4, 1929
Page 43

Margaret Williams
of Gabriel
Indiana

Suspended

let 15 May 1840
Hon. J. Rariden
Let 17 June 1840 Hon
J. Rariden
to 21 Sep 40

Act 7 July 1838
Page 44

Morgantown, February 21st 1821

We the subscriber do hereby certify that they have been many years acquainted with Gabriel Williams of Monongalia County (whose name is inscribed on the pension roll of Virginia) and that he now lives on their land, that they consider him to be in indigent circumstances and able to do little or no labour (labor) that he had his leg accidentally broken last year, that his wife is old, that he has but one child unmarried living with him, a boy about fifteen years as they believe, that the crop of grain raised on the land rented to him last year was about three hundred bushels  out of which he is to pay one third rent and that this was pronouncedly cultivated by his reared son Clark who live on the place with him.

Mathew Gay
N. Evans

State of Virginia
Monongalia County

This day Mathew Gay Esqr common law attorney and Nimrod Evans Esquire Clerk of the court of Monongalia County aforesaid personally appeared before me Ralph Berkshire one of the community justices of the peace in and for said county and made oaths that the foregoing certificate by them subscribed is true.

Given under my hand this 21st Feb 1821.

R. Berkshire - JP