Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,370, Daniel Whatley, N. C.
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(3- 1776)
SERVICE
{handwritten} N. C.  Whatley, Daniel {/handwritten}
NUMBER
{handwritten} R. 11,370 {/handwritten}

CONTENTS
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of Georgia
County of Dooly } ss.
On this Eigth (Eighth) day of November personally appeared in open court before the Superior court non Billing Daniel Whatley a resi_dent of the county of Talbot in the state aforesaid aged ninety five years and ten months who being first d sworn duly according to law, doth on his oath make the follow_ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he entered the service as a [decafled] miser for three months in the company of Captain Tron_dale of Orange county (county crossed out) of North Carolina and which company was attached to the batalion (battalion) of Col O'Neal and under the commissioned of General Butler and declarant served in this three months as a militia soldier. His next service was from the same county of Orange and State of North Carolina under the command of Captain Christmass (he thinks Nat_thaniel Christmal) under Colonel O'Neal and Colonel Mabin and General Butler. This tour also was to have been for three months, as a
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volunteer, but where the three months expired he found it unsafe to re-turn home on decorries of the troubles of the time, and reenlisted in the service until the close of the river. The particular years in which decla_rant served he is unable to state being aged and illiterate but it was during this time that the battle or skirmish took place at Lindsey's mills on Harn River and also that at Barnsburg Mills on the waters of Deep River and also at Kirles with a body of torries in all of which [esigda] county [alls] a decla_rant [sacis] as the battle of Guilford and fought through from the be_ginning to the end of that battle under General Greene and although declarant remained in service until the end of the war he was in no battle after the battle of Guilbird. Claim and has no documentary evidence of his services or discharge. He had several discharges or certificates of services but they [saer] burns in the house of his small John Whatley about the close of the war, this said service there residing either in Orange or Chatham County State of North Carolina, he residing near the dividing line   between those two counties. Claimant knowing of no person who can testify to his services, indeed he does not now know of any one that served with him he once
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a member but he believes they are now all dead.
As a reason for not making his application in the county of Talbot where he resides c;laims and cou only say that service of the clergyman who knew him resided in that county and that he had to come after to the county of Macon and Dooly where they lived to get the benefit of their testimony and claimant asked leave to add that no account of his decrepitude and advanced  age so he had found it very difficult to succeed to find any who were willing (amidst the press of other engagements) to allow to attend this importance of and to submit to the labors of preparing his declaration
He hereby respectfully [unknown] claim whatever to appear before or community except the preferred and declares that his name is not on the Pension Books of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid and [unknown] before signing
Daniel Whatley
His Mark
The Benjamin Webb a clergyman residing in the county of Dooly and August M.D. King residing
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in the adjoining county of Sumter hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Whatley who has sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be ninety five years and upwards of age, that he is suppsited [supposed] and believed [illegible] the neigh wherein he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we came here in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
Benj. Webb D.D.
Lott Warren Judge
[illegible]
Angus M. D. King

And the said court does hereby declare its opinion after investigation of the matter and after the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above signed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated above. The court further certifies that it appears to it that Benjamin Webb who had signed the preceding certificate is a [illegible] never residing in the county.
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We were certain applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states before the court further certifies that it appears to us that Benjamin Webb who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the county of Dooly and that August M.D. King who has signed the same is a resident Sumter and is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit.
Lott Warren Judge 
Superior Court [unknown] term Circuit

I Thomas H. Key Clerk of the Superior court of the county of Dooly and State of Georgia do  
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Daniel Whatley for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal of office this twelfth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
Thomas H. Key Clerk
[unknown] Ga.
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private in Captain Trousdale's company, Colonel O'Neal's North Carolina regiment, that he served also in Captain Christmans' North Carolina company, that he was in the battle of Guilford, and that he served continuously, with the exception of eighteen months, in the North Carolina militia until the close of the war. His claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service of six months was not established as required by the pension laws. 

It was stated also that Daniel Whatley rendered hazardous service as an Indian spy in the War of 1812 on the Georgia frontier, but no dates of this service were given.

In 1852, the soldier resided in Talbot County, Georgia. He made no reference to wife or children.

As Daniel Whatley is recorded in the volume "The Census of Pensioners of 1840" as a pensioner of Macon County, Georgia, and as he was not granted a pension by the United States, it may be that the compensation which he received in 1840 was paid by the state from which he served.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
2.
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private in Captain Trousdale's company, Colonel O'Neal's North Carolina
regiment, that he served also in Captain Christmans' North Carolina company, that he was in the battle of Guilford, and that he served continuously, with the exception of eighteen months, in the North Carolina militia until the close of the war. His claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service
of six months was not established as required by the pension laws.

It was stated also that Daniel Whatley rendered hazardous service as an Indian spy in the War of 1812 on the Georgia
frontier, but no dates of this service were given.

In 1852, the soldier resided in Talbot County, Georgia. He made no reference to wife or children.

As Daniel Whatley is recorded in the volume "The Census of Pensioners of 1840 as a pensioner of Macon County, Georgia,
and as he was not granted a pension by the United States, it may be that the compensation which he received in 1840 was paid by the state from which he served.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

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No. 37575
Daniel Whately
Ga
[Text crossed out]
R. 5.  [illegible]
Oct 7 [illegible] 1832
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1939-Nov 14-Hist to Mrs. E.T. Nottingham

Rejected
11370
P.O.
Daniel Whately
Service: ______
Enlisted: ______, 18
Discharged: ______, 18
Application filed: ______, 18
Alleges: ______
Re-enlisted: ______
Attorney: ______
P.O. ______
______ Recognized. ______ Contract.
______ Cert. of Dis. Searched for ______, 18
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Georgia}
Baldwin County}
I certify that in 1840 or 1841 as well as I now recollect that I filed the declaration of Mr. Daniel Whatley then of Macon County for a Pension as a Revolutionary Soldier/ That said application was made to the Office of Court of Pensions in Washington. I was refused on grounds not now recollected. I also state that Judge King was there presiding. That the paper was drawn up as I supposed in due form, & the impressions left on my mind was that Mr. Whatly was a meritorious application. What has become of these papers, whether withdrawn or mislaid I am unable to state.
[illegible signature]
Dec. 10th 1848
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Lanier Macon Coty [county]
Geoa [Georgia] April 5, 1848}

Dr [sic] [Dear] Sir,
Enclosed I send what we have been able to do towards explaining and strengthening the application of Daniel Whatley for a pension forwarded to the department some eighteen months ago. I admit the showing is, after all, not so perfect as might be desirable and, [illegible] this [illegible] at [illegible] has been tardy but the old [illegible] has no one that will help [illegible], any further than what he can obtain from the legal profession by repeated and always a purpetual [sic] [perpetual] i__portunity. I believe he stated that his discharged [illegible] burnt which [illegible] precision as to dates, next to
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serve a very aged and apparently meriting man. I did not at the time of accessing Mr. Collins letter attach much importance to it, and have mislaid it or else it would be forwarded herewith; though the substance issue is as stated. Any one at all acquainted with the laborious routine of official duties cannot be otherwise than aware of the irksomeness of examining and investigating the various claims and applications with which your office is, no doubt, crowded but, so far as the class is concerned, to which Mr. Whatley claims, and is said by others, to belong, whether justly or unjustly they will not trouble the department much longer. Of that class he is the only one [underlined] now living within the scope of my acquaintances and I have known many.
As the official character of the [unknown] was certified to in the application itself it has not been done again. The statement of Gov. Towns, though not in the form of a deposition or affidavit is forwarded with the hope that it may be confirmed in favor of one who has hardly any that will help or assist him and who is very poorly able to help or assist himself.
With very respectful consideration
Angus M.D. King.
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Received stamp:
Received Sep 16 1939
Mail Sub Div Reader No. 2
Vets Adm

Thomastone, Ga
Sept. 15-1939

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Please send me a copy of the Pension Certificate of Gibson Flournoy of Chesterfield, County, Virginia
Thanking you I am
Very truly
Mrs. E. T. Nottingham
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Depart of War
Pennsion Officer
June 25 1839

Sir
I have examined the declaration of Daniel Whatley, an applicant for a pension under the Act of June of 1832 and [illegible] which the same to you. The amount of Mr. Whatley's statement in that from the year 1779 with the exception of about 18 mo, he performed a [illegible] militia service is NCarolina.
The militia service in N.C. during the revolution, was organized as the other state, at that period, and such portion thereof, was
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Hon. G.W. Towns
June 25 '39
Whatley is therefore actually was irregular, and with the exception of one tour of 3 mths. [months] which he specified, entirely so. The probability is that he was principally engaged in the [strikeout] irregular warfare of the day, between whig and tory, and not under any military obligation, or in obedience in the requirement of the laws. If, however, this was not the case, he must state his services in conformity with the regulations and law of 1832 which requires that each form of duty be stated, both as in date, and duration: the name of the officer under whom said service was performed, the nature of the service and the place performed. The nature of the service and the place or place where rendered, and whether in a regular embodied corps called out by competent authority.
I send on a copy of the act and regulation in the order, should Mr. Whatley again present his papers, that they may [strikeover] be made in conformity therewith.
I have the honor
Hon GW Towns
Present
OL
June 7 1832
Georgia
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Macon Georgia
October 28, 1830
Sir
Herewith I send several claims for Bounty Land & as the claimant men drafted for six months & actually served three & a half years when abouts. I hope they will be entitled to a warrant for "services."
I also enclose some incidences to be filed with the claim of Daniel Whatley, [underlined] - a man aged about 100 years for Pension - on account of services in the "War of the Revolution." He tells me that he formerly made application through A.M.D. King Esquire of Forsythe, Georgia, & that the claim was suspended for want of additional evidence. I beg to be informed as to what additional evidence is wanting, in order to supply it if possible. He says his original discharges were burnt many years ago. The accompanying testimony is from the above part, and the great lapses of time about the best he can get; but from uniform statements by his contemporaries, as well as of himself, that he was a "soldier in the Revolution" made to those who survive there - there can be no doubt that he should be placed upon the Pension List. 
In the war of 1812, he acted as an "Indian Spie" [spy]
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in the Georgia frontiers - making regular reports to Capt. J. Parish of Gen. Floyd's Army but the recent Act of Congress giving Bounty Land does not seem to embrace his case. This, if he could have obtained it, would have been some assistance in his extreme old age.
Altho he was in the Battle of "Guilford," North Carolina and other battles of the Revolution and in most hazardous enterprises in the War of 1812 among the Indians - yet, he has never yet shared the Bounty of Government. From the character as a citizen & comparative poverty, I feel quite interested in his behalf.
The difficulty of his claim for Pension is increased by the irregular made of marking them on muster rolls by officers in the Old War & by the frequent changes of captains & companies from one service to another that were then made to suit the experience of the moment and especially when adding to these the failing memory of the claimant - by which companies & Regiments cannot be designated. 
If tradition [underlined] could be of any service to him - as legitimate testimony - the difficulty would be obviated.
Begging you will excuse the trespass of so long a letter upon your valuable time.
I am very respectfully,
R.S. Lanier
Attorney
Commision of Pensions
Washington City
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Angus M.D. King
August 11 47
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Pension Office
August 11, 1849
Sir,
The supplemental declaration of Daniel Whatley has been received and filed with his other papers.
Upon a further examination of the record of this office it appears that an [strikeout] declaration for applicant was presented by Gen. George W Towns. His papers were returned to Gov. Towns on the 25 June 1839, accompanied by a report a copy of which is herewith enclosed.
No additional [unknown] has been received in support of this claim since my report to you the 20 January 1848
Angus M. D. King Esq
Lanier
Macon Co
Ga
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Pension Office
January 20,1848
Sir,
The papers in the case of Daniel Whatley have been examined and filed under the Act of 7 June 1832.
It does not appear from the books and files of their Office that Whately has ever applied for a pension. His failure to [unknown] his claim until this late day [unknown] so strong a presumption against its validity that evidence of a high order will be required to establish it with the necessary certainty. He states in his application that he served in the Militia of North Carolina under two drafts of three months each, that in the last term he continued to the end of the war. The time of his entering the service has not been given. He must set fort specifically the date of the commencement and the duration of each term in which he was engaged, and provide the certificate of the Certification of North Carolina, showing the amount of pay he received for the service. The term in the Militia of that service was limited to
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to [undecipherable] each, and until he can provide satisfactory proof if his having fulfilled the full term for which he was drafted in each term he cannot receive a pension
No proof [cross out word] of service whatever has been advanced.

[at the bottom left of page]
Augustus M. D. King Esq
Americus 
Geo.
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State of Georgia - Personally appeared before Bibb County - me, David Reid one of the Justice of the Peace in and for said County and [crossed out] State.  Robert Beasley Senior of said County who being by me duly sworn according to Law, desposed and says that he is well acquainted with Captain Daniel Whatley lately a resident of Jones County but now residing in Talbot County Georgia, and that he has known said Whatley for the space of about sixty five years, and that deposesent has all that period recognized said Whatley as a soldier of the revolution. From information and conversation with very old people who seemed to recollect said Whatley, and defendant further saith that he hath good service to believe that said Whatley is about one hundred years of age. defendant is aged seventy three years next January. Sworn to transcribed before me this 24 October 1850  David Reid J.P. [scribbled line]  Robert Beasley (Senior)
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Georgia [squiggle line] I David Reid a Justice of the 
Bibb County [squiggle line] peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am well and personally acquainted with Robert Beasley Senior of said County and state and residing in the City of Macon in said County & State and that he is the identical Beasley who took and subscribed the aminiscus affidavit before me and that full faith and credit in and ought to be given to his declaration and that he is believed to be a good honest citizen in this Community

David Reid
Justice of the Peace and for said County
Macom October 24 1850
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[File label]

Evidence to be filed with the papers of Daniel Watley [Whatley] a soldier in the Revolutionary War
Claim for Pension
See paper filed by Angus M. D. King - 1848-9
R. S. Lanier Atty
Macon NC
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State of Georgia
Bibb county
I hereby certify that David Reid Esqr. before whom the affidavit & certification hereto attached was subscribed & who thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in afore said county, duly commissioned & sworn.
In testimony where of I have chose to set my hand & affixed my seal as Clerk of the Inferior court [strikeout] of said county. This 24th day of October 1830.
E G Jeffers Clerk
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No 37575
Daniel Whatley
Ga
Act 7 June 1832
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
City
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
City

No 37575
Daniel Whatley
Ga
Act 7 June 1832
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Americus Georgia Nov 1847
Dear Sir,
I send you enclosed the application of a poor old creature that has been teasing me a long time to prepare them and at last they have been so hastily written that I am afraid, [unknown] if the claim should be favorably received, they may be defective in some of the usual requisites - The signing of the judge the clergyman and myself is particularly awkward. 
Of the real merits of the poor old mans claim I know nothing myself only from general report. I have known old Mr. Whatley since my boyhood 
and as his application was made in a community where but few of his acquaintances lived I have felt authorized to do for him what I have not done I think for any other applicant, that is, to sign the Statement as to his age and character. He had his application commenced in Macon Co. but for want of being able to pay it was stopped without being completed, but as
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The affidavit of the Rev. Mr. McKenzie was finished I send that too enclosed although that refers also to his war service as captain the late war with Great Britain and the Indians I suppose that has nothing to do with the present pension laws and it is omitted entirely in his application. He sent on one application some seven or eight years ago but says he has never been able to hear any thing from it; for the last five or six years he has been distressingly importunate about the affair and I can only say that is his claim is not just or his story is not true his neighbors that have known him long have been deceived in the old man. If he is entitled to any thing from the country no one can need it more for his is very aged and very poor. Please pardon sir the freedom with which I have written and desire the reply if any
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is sent to this place (Americus Geo) as Mr. W. lives in a very secluded place and I will soon find some reason of letting him know the result
Very respectively
August M.D. King
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MRS. E. T. NOTTINGHAM
REGENT
JOHN HOUSTON CHAPTER
THOMASTON, GEORGIA
Oct. 30, 1939
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
Re-BAHB-801
On September 15, 1939, I wrote asking for the Revolutionary service, or Pension record of Gibson Flournoy, not Hournoy, of Chesterfield County, Va. Would greatly appreciate any Rev. record you can give me.
I have found the following reference to the Rev. service of Daniel Whatley, of Macon County, Georgia.
"Daniel Whatley, of Macon County, Georgia, 887 years old June 1, 1840.
A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services under Act for Taking the Sixth Census.
Published by Authority of an Act. of Congress, under the Direction of the Secretary of State. Washington, Printed by Blair and Rives 1841. Page 146."
Please send me a copy of the Pension Certificate of Daniel Whatley.
Gibson Flournoy came to Georgia and died in Greene County, Georgia.
Thanking you for this information, I am
Very truly,
Mrs. E. T. Nottingham
Thomaston, Georgia.

for Mrs Finch [handwritten]
Navy Bldg
R1851
11/3/39
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COPY
January 11, 1851.
R. S. Lanier, Esq.
Macon, Georgia.
Sir:
The application of David Whately for pension has been rejected because there was no evidence furnished of his having served during the Revolution and the reasons assigned by him for his inability to furnish such evidence were not deemed satisfactory.
I am etc.
F. S. Evans,
Comm. of Pensions
Copied by ILL/11-15-39.
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Georgia Macon County}
Personally came into open court David Whatley who after being duly sworn maketh oath and saidth that he is an applicant for a pensions to the pensions office, or the despondent of pensing, for the [illegible] slated, and that the laten of his application has been given as are objection to the granting his application for said pension, and despondent stated further that his first application was sends and forwarded to the pensions office some eight or ten years ago and that the [illegible] has never been returned to despondent, as or To anyone else for him, or far as he knows or believes, and despondent stated further that his first appreciation way delayed only on amount of his old age [illegible] and poverty and the difficulty which he found in attending court and processing The assistance of any competent person To prepare his application.  Despondent stated that the last person that he has been able to learn the residence of that service with him was Joseph Herndon late of Walton county in this state and that he [illegible] stated to services the deposition of Joseph Herndon and that before researching the place of his
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residence was informed that he was dead and deponent states that at the time of his first and second application he was wholly ignorant of the residence of said Herndon or of any of the others that served with deponent in the army. He states also that the very next year after the close of the war he removed from North Carolina to Georgia and that he never returned any more to North Carolina, that he never made any application for pay to that State, that he lived at a distance of several hundred miles from his former residence in that state and never knew or heard that any provision was made to pay the troops of that State until a period of time comparatively recent, that is to say in the year eighteen hundred and thirty four and at which time deponent was a
citizen of Houston County Georgia, Deponent
after learning the service looked on all prospect of pay or compensation as hopeless and this was the cause of his making no application and also was the cause of his not keeping himself informed as to particulars relating to the matters
of compensation or pay. Deponent states that his old age and want of strength as well as his poverty have been the cause
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of the lateness of both his applications and of his inability to procure collateral corroborative proof other than that of general reputation with those to whom deponent has long been known and among whom he has resided from the close of the revolutionary war down to the present time. Deponent states that he is now near one hundred years of age and that he does not know of a single person now living with whom he was acquainted during the war of the revolution and is unable to add further proof to that given by the clergyman who have made the depositions in his behalf, or at least the only further proof would have to be of the passed character with that already furnished to the department.
His
Daniel Whatley
Mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court before the superior court of the county aforesaid now in session this April 5, 1849.
Lott Warren Judge [unknown]
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State of Georgia
Macon County
Superior Court April Term 1849
Personally came into open court Angus
M.D. King who after being duly sworn
maketh oath and saith that he well remembers
having acted on the application
of Daniel Whatley for a pension while
deponent was in office as the presiding
judge of this court. The time of said application
being made, deponent cannot state with certainty only that it was at least as far back as the month of October 1841 as that was the last
term of which deponent presided in this Macon county. Said application was presented, and he believes prepared, by the present Govenor Towns then a practicing attorney and counsellor in
this court. Deponent has examined the written statement of Gov. Town and states that so far of the knowledge or the said statement is wholly
true
Augus M. D. King
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this April 5, 1849.
Lott Warren Judge SCS [unknown]
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State of Georgia
Macon County
John McKenzie an ordained minister of the Gospel of the Baptist order personally came and appeared before me Lott Warren Judge of the Superior Court of the Southwestern district of Georgia now holding Court in and for the County of Macon aforesaid & being sworn in due form of Law [unknown] & sworn that he has been personally acquainted with Daniel Whatley (who now contemplates making application to the war department for a Pension for upwards of  fifty years last past that he said Daniel claims all that time has been a citizen of the State of Georgia that he has been uniformly a good & peaceful citizen that he is and has been a man during that time worthy of confidence & a man of both and this I would & do believe anything he would swear or state on his honor concerning his Revolutionary services or otherwise & I do further swear that from hearsay during all our time I have known him said Whatley that I have believed him to have been a Captain in the American War against Great Britain and the Indians & a Revolutionary soldier always on the side of the Revolutionary [unknown] and appears on all occasions to the [unknown] - John McKenzie [unknown]
Sworn to & subscribed in open court at Lanier Macon County Georgia Eight Day of October 1849 before me.
Lott Warren Judge
[unknown]