Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3548, Drury Hearn, [ILLEGIBLE]
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(left page ) Vol. H. - 135 ( right page ) (?) 1610 ret- May 2/55  Karen Hearn widow Drury Hearn  Priv.  Drury Hearn N.C. Contl line Revolutionary War Rec. Pension  Ad : 160 ac  Feb : 29/56 S.C. Feby 53- 2934 Boynton J. Quattlebaum  Sleepy Creek  S.C. ( notes across text ) ( No 17888 iss March 6 / 56 )
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( left page ) ( check mark ) 2934  South Carolina Karen Hearn  widow of Drury Hearn  NC who served in the Revolutionary war as Private . Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of $80  Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd February 1853 . Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Nov. / 53 and sent to  Thos. P. Morgan Present  Recorded on  Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853 Page 143 Col. A.   32 ( right page ) 1859 March 25th Duplicate issued  and sent to  J J Coombs Present
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( left page )Lett. 1 April 1837 - Pension Agent  Charleston  S. Car.  ( right page )  4603 South Carolina Drury Hearn  of  Edgefield Dist. in the State of S. Carolina who was a private  in the company  commanded by Captain Emmet of the regt. commanded by  Sumner  in the N. Carolina line for two years. Inscribed on the  Roll of S. Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars __ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of January 1833 and sent to  Thos. J. McDuffie  H. R.  Arrears tot he 4th  of Sep 32  $ 120. Semi-annl. allowance ending 11 Mch 33 $ 60 ( total $ 160 ) { Revolutionary Claim Act June 7. 1832 } Recorded by  Wm Allison Clerk Book D. Vol. 8 Page 87
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[ State of South Carolina Edgefield District ] On this __ day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand  eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court  before me  Richard Gantt  one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the said  State now sitting in and for the  District aforesaid  Drury Hearn a resident of the District and State aforesaid aged seventy seven years and two months  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 June the 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States  the 15th of May ( 1776 )  as a private commanded by Captain James Emmet of the North Carolina line  which said company was attached to the third regiment commanded by  Colonel Jethro  Sumner of  which Brigadier General Francis  Nash was commander. That the deponent was in the battle of Brandywine , German Town , Monmouth Court House and afterwards in the  Siege at Charleston South Carolina  and was discharged the 10th of November 1778 , making in all two years and six months actual service - After the battle of Monmouth  he marched through  New York into Connecticut  thence to Fredericksburg  then engaged in the Militia under the command of Nat
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Christmas, was taken prisoner at the siege of Charleston and was paroled -This deponent lost his original discharge , but he produces ( has ) the certificate of  William Hill  Secretary of State of North Carolina  stating that he served as a regular soldier  in the third regiment of the North Carolina line  & received his discharge . He knows of no surviving witness  who  can corroborate  his statement of his services. This deponent 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. Drury Hearn ( signed ) Sworn to in open Court. J . Richardson ( signed ) C.C.P.  We H. Burt , a clergyman , David Richardson ,  & G. Friday residing in the District of Edgefield and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said  Drury Hearn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration ; that we believe him  to be seventy seven years of age ; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the  revolution  and  that we concur in that opinion.  Harwood Burt ( signed ) , David Richardson ( signed ) , Godfrey Friday ( signed )  And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department , that the above named
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applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court  further certifies that it appears to them  that Harwood Burt,  who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman  and  resides in the  District  and that  David Richardson  and Godfrey Friday  who also signed  the same are residents in the said District and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.  Richard Gantt ( signed ) P. Judge      I , Jefferson Richardson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Drury  Hearn for a pension . In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of November 1832. J. Richardson ( signed . sealed ) C.C.P.
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Drury Hearn
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Drury Hearn

from 1776 
private 2 [illegible] years

$80

Hon. J. Mc Duffie.
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BRIEF in the case of Drury Hearn  District of Edgefield in the State of South Carolina  ( Act 7th June 1832. ) 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or Judge ? Court. 2. If before a Judge , does it appear  that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity ? 3. How old is he ? 77. 4. State his service as directed in the form annexed. Period. In 1776 15th May . Duration of service. 2 Years, 6 Months, _ Days. Rank. Private . Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt. J. Emmet, Col.  Sumter , General Nash . 5. In what battles was he engaged ? Brandywine, German town , Monmouth,  Siege of Charleston. 6. Where did he reside  when he entered the service ? not stated. 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by tradionary evidence, by incidental evidence , or by the rolls ?  tradionary and documentary. 8. are the papers defective as to form or authentication, and if so , in what respect ? Correct.  I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case abovementioned. J Waugh ( signed ) Examining Clerk
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Pension claim of Karen Hearn  FOR A PENSION ACT OF FEBRUARY 3. 1853 War of the Revolution  Thos P. Morgan attorney  Washington D.C.
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NEW PENSION LAWS FORM OF WIDOW'S DECLARATION . STATE OF  South Carolina Dist. of Edgefield  Karen Hearn  of Edgefield Dist & State aforesaid makes oath and says  that she is the widow of Drury Hearn  deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner  in the  State of South Carolina  Edgefield District , that he said Drury Hearn  died at his residence on  Sleepy Creek  on the fourteenth day of October  A.D. 1840 in said Dist.  She further states that she was married to the said Drury Hearn  in Edgefield District on the seventeenth day of May  in the year eighteen hundred and  fourteen  by one John Bulger  a Minister of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Karen Bledsoe , and that her husband  dew the sum of eighty dollars annually in two equal  installments say forty ( $ 40 )  dollars each up to the time of his death aforesaid. She furthermore  by these presents constitutes and appoints irrevocably  Thomas P. Morgan of Washington  D.C.  with power of  substitution , her true and lawful attorney  to prosecute and  demand from the U.S. Government any pension or money or land that she may have right to - hereby confirming  her said  attorney's lawful acts in the premises.   Karen Hearn ( signed ) [SEAL ]  Subscribed, acknowledged , and sworn to and before me, this sixteenth day of May 1853. and I further certify I am not interested in this claim.  H. T. Wright ( signed )  OED It is hereby certified , that satisfactory proof  has been exhibited before me the undersigned, one of the Judges of the  Court of Ordinary  in and for the  Dist. and State aforesaid , by the affidavits of John Kirksey  Esq &  John Quattlebaum of the above named District  and State, being personally known to me and who are entitled to credit, that Mrs. Karen Hearn  is the Widow of the late Drury Hearn  who was a soldier in the United States service in the Revolutionary War and that the said Mrs. Hearn is now, and was on the 3rd of February  , 1853 , the widow of Drury Hearn  to the best of their knowledge and belief.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of May  in the year 1853 .  John Kirksey ( his mark ) J . Quattlebaum  ( signed )  H.T. Wright ( signed / sealed ) OED  N.B. Esq. Kirksey is old and palsied
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[Horizonal]

STATE of South Carolina 
Dist Edgefield
to wit:
I hereby certify, that the Hon  H T Wright -a judge of the court of ordinary
before whom the annexed affidavits were made, and who has
thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing, a Judge... of lthe Court of
ordinary of the State of South Carolina, 
in and for the said Dist duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have herunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Office at
Edgefield C. H. this sixteenth day of may in the year 1853.
Tho G Bacon, Clerk
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Pension 
Claim of Karen Hearn

FOR A PENSION
Act OF FEBRUARY 3, 1853

War of the Revolution


Thos P Morgan
Attorney
Washington
D.C.

[illegible]
P. Morgan


[Horizonal]

NOTES.
1. Which must be made before a judge of a court of record in open court, unless applicant is from bodily health unable to appear; it then can be made before a judge, who will certify to the fact of the disability to appear.

2. Must here state, whether a revolutionary soldier, or officer or pensioner, naming the State where the pension was paid: or if the husband served and died in the service during any war since 1790-naming them thus:

Waynes's or Indian wars prior to 1800: War with Great Britain, 1812; Seminole War, 1817 and 1818; Black Hawk War, 1882;Florida War, 1835 to 1842; Cherokee and Creek Disturbance,1836. &c., Mexican War , 1846 to 1848; and giving the name of the Captain, Company, Regiment, and Colonel; and whether militia, volunteers or regular army, and place of muster, discharge, or death.

3. Deceased person's name and residence -4. The place. -5 The date of death -6. Husband's name  or father name.

7. Name of the minister, or justice of the peace: and if married in any State or county where and public records of marriages are
kept , the marriage should be proved by a duly certified copy of the record,  or by the testimony of credible witnesses who were present at the marriage: and where such testimony exist, and is not produced, satisfactory reasons must be stated , under oath, why it is not produced; and, in all cases where record evidence or the testimony of witnesses who were present at the marriage could be procured and is not, the claim will be rejected, unless other testimony of a very full and satisfactory character is produced. If it is shown by affidavit that no record evidence or testimony of eye-witnesses can be procured, the claimant may then produce the best other evidence in her power, such as the testimony of  witnesses, who were acquainted with her and her husband during his lifetime, knew them to live together as man and wife, and that they were reputed so to be, and that the fact of their having been married was never called in question by their acquaintances. 

In no case, however. will the mere statement of the witnesses, that the claimant is the widow of the deceased, be taken as
evidence  the the marriage:but the witness must states the facts and circumstances from which they derive their knowledge or opinion that she is the widow of the deceased.

A certificate from the clergyman or magistrate who solemnized the marringe is not competent evidence, unless the genuineness of the certificate be proved, and the person who gave it be shown to have been authorized to so solemnize marriages.

9. This blank is left, for the purpose of the applicant's stating whether any bounty land or pension has at any time been received by any one; if so by whom, and when.

10. Naming the war.
All records or copy of records must be attached to the orginal declaration by a tape , the ends of which must pass under
the seal of the court, in order to prevent the Improper addition of any evidence after the papers have been duly executed and certified to by the judges and clerk.

If the widow was re-married, all the facts of marriage and death of second husband must be proven.

A probate court is the the most convenient  court in which to make  these proofs

The law (3rd February, 1853) grants pensions to the widows of revolutionary soldiers, without reference to date of marriage.
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[ State of South Carolina Edgefield District ] SS. On this  twenty fourth day of April A.D. 1855  personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the  District  and State aforesaid  Keron Hearn , aged sixty six years a resident of  said Dist. who being duly sworn  according to law , declares that she is the identical  widow of Drury Hearn  dec'd , who was a soldier in the  Revolutionary War ; that he served in said war for at least  fourteen days ; that her said husband drew a pension during his life, ( as the records of the war department will show )  and that she is now drawing  a half Pension as will appear  on the pension list. She further declares that she was married to the said Drury Hearn , deceased , on the 17th  day of May  A.D. 1814  by one John Bulger a preacher, and that her name before marriage was Keron  Bledsoe, that he said husband died at his residence the 14th day of Oct.  A.D. 1840 ; and that she is now a widow . She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land  to which she may be  entitled under the act  approved the 3rd  March  A.D. 1855. Keron Hearn ( her mark ) We Simeon Cogburn and H.D. Quattlebaum  residents of the  Dist. & State aforesaid  upon our oaths declare that he foregoing declaration  was signed and acknowledged by Keron Hearn in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant , that she is the identical person she represents herself to be . Simeon Cogburn ( signed ) H.D. Quattlebaum ( signed )  The foregoing  declaration  and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me  on the day and year above written, and I certify  that I know  the affiants to be credible persons ; that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be , and that I have no interest in  this claim. Given under my hand  the date first above written. J. Quattlebaum ( signed ) M E.D.  I do certify  on honor , that the applicant in this declaration is now a widow  & is to my knowledge drawing a pension for  $ 80.00 per year  for the services of her husband in the  Revolutionary war. J. Quattlebaum ( signed ) M.E.D.
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[ The State of South Carolina Edgefield District ] I, Tho. G. Bacon  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for  Edgefield District  in the  State aforesaid , do hereby certify that  J. Quattlebaum  Esq.  before whom the  preceding affidavit was made as appears by his name in his own hand writing attesting the same was at the date thereof a Magistrate for the  District aforesaid, who has been duly appointed  and qualified and has signed the roll kept according to law in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed  my seal of office at Edgefield Court House on the tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred  and fifty five and in the seventy  ninth year of the  Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. Tho. G. Bacon ( signed / sealed ) Clk  C.P.
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IN REPLY REFER TO Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
8-1885
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON

March 16, 1927

Mrs. Thomas R. Malone
Large Vista Ranch 
Boone, Colo.

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in
the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 3548, 
it appears that Drury Hearn enlisted May 15, 
1776 and served as a private in Captain James Emmet's Company, Colonel Jethro Sumner's Third North Carolina Regiment, he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and was discharged November 10, 1778; after which he was at the Siege of Charleston, was taken prisoner, 
and then paroled.

He was allowed pension on his application
executed November 1, 1832, while a resident of Edgefield District, South Carolina, aged seventy-seven years and two months.
He died October 14, 1840 at Sleepy Creek,
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Edgefield District, South Carolina.

Soldier married May 17, 1814 in Edgefield
District, South Carolina, Keren or Karen Bledsoe.
She was allowed pension on her application executed
May 16, 1853, while a resident of Sleepy Creek, South Carolina, aged sixty-four years.

There is no data on file relative to children.

Owing to a lack of clerical force available 
for the purppse, only two histories are furnished 
each inquirer.

Respectfully

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

I did not send this - l relented sending
this & Eberezer Hearne S.6996 but when
 I got into that one - found it was a
suspended case &  peculiar - so decided to
asked for more data on all - as there 
were many names in her letter [initials illegible]
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( left page ) Revy WIDOW ,&c. File No. 3548 Karen Hearn Widow Drury Hearn Pri Rev War Act : Feb 3rd, 1853 Index : - Vol.  A , Page 323 [ Arrangement of 1870 ] ( right page )  more data requested as it was a long rambling letter with many names.
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[ South Carolina Edgefield District ] Before me personally came  Mrs. Keron Hearn  and upon her oath sayeth that the marriage of Drury Hearn  and herself was recorded in her Mother's Bible , and some years since, a gentleman  came to see her for the purpose of making an effort to get a pension for her & cut the leaf from the  Bible  on which the record was,  and at the same time a copy was made upon a scrip , which is the identical one herein enclosed.  Sworn to before me , the 1st  Feb 1853. Karen Hearn ( her mark ) J. Quattlebaum ( signed ) M.E.D.  [ South Carolina Edgefield District ] I , Tho . G. Bacon clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and  General Sessions for  Edgefield  District & State aforesaid  do hereby certify that there is but one Ordinary in and for said District, and that is  Court is recognized as a Court of record, and that all due faith should be given to his official attestations as such ordinary . In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and  affixed  my seal of office at  Edgefield Court House  on the third day of November  , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  fifty three & in the  seventy eighth year of American Independence. Tho. G. Bacon ( signed / sealed ) Clk C.P.
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[ South Carolina Edgefield Dist. ] Before me personally came  Mrs. Sarah Bledsoe of the District aforesaid  , who being duly sworn , upon oath  sayeth that she was present and saw Drury Hearn  late of the Dist. aforesaid dec'd , and his now surviving  widow Karon Hearn  of this Dist. , lawfully married , which she ins confident  was on the seventeenth day of May A.D. 1814 , and that they did live together as man  & wife from that period till the death of the said Drury  Hearn which she thinks was about  the 14th  Oct. 1840, also says she knew the said Drury Hearn to be the identical man that was known as a Revolutionary soldier , and  who drew a pension as such. Sarah Bledsoe ( her mark X ) Sworn to before me , the 21st  March 1853. J. Quattlebaum ( signed ) M.E.D.   I do certify on honor that I am acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Bledsoe, who is an old lady of good standing  whose word or oath , merits every degree of confidence : also that I was acquainted with Mr. Drury Hearn  dec'd , for several years  previous to this death , and knew him as a Revolutionary soldier  & pensioner, and that this applicant  Mrs. Karon Hearn is known as the widow
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of the said Drury Hearn late of Edgefield Dist. dec'd . Certified this 21st of March  1853. J Quattlebaum ( signed ) M.E.D.  [ State of South Carolina Edgefield District ] I, Tho. G. Bacon clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas & General Sessions of the Peace and as such clerk keeper of the  Roll of Magistrates for this District do hereby certify  that  John Quattlebaum  Esq.  whose signature in his own hand writing is subscribed to the foregoing certificate and affidavit   , sworn  & commissioned  & that he signed the Roll of Magistrate kept in my office and that full faith  and credit are due his attestations as such Magistrate. Given under my hand and seal of office at Edgefield Court House  the 23 day of March 1853 . Tho. G. Bacon ( signed / sealed ) clk  E.D. So. Ca.
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( dark and barely legible ) Karon Hearn Drury  Lett. to Thos. P . Morgan  August 24, 1853 Act 3rd Feby / 1853
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... ( illegible ) Aug / 53 SC Boynton
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Edgefield C. H. 23rd March 1853 To Mr. Thos. P. Morgan  Dear Sir, Enclosed you find the petition of  Mrs.  Keron Hearn . You will please address Col. John Quattlebaum  Sleepy Creek  Edgefield Dist. So. Ca.  for further particulars. Yours respectfully , Tho . G. Bacon ( signed )
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2 wit : Pri : 14th Oct  48 Boynton
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( check mark ) 17. 888  ( illegible )
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4603 Pen : Off: 16 Nov: / 53 Sir, Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was  paid or the date of his death. Very Respectfully , B. Hood ( signed )  For the Commissioner Drury Hearn  Oct 1832  $80 per ann. - Paid to 4th Sept. 1840  , no date of death on our Books. Saml S. Rind  ( signed ) Actg. Auditor.  Francis Burt Esq. Third Auditor,  Treasury
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Declaration of Caren Hearn in order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd Section of the Act of Congress of 3rd February 1853.  [ State of South Carolina  District of Edgefield ] On this thirteenth day of May  A.D. 1853  personally  appeared before the  Judges of the Ordinary's Court  of the  State of South Carolina  Mrs. Karen Hearn a resident of Sleepy Creek  in the  District of Edgefield and State aforesaid , aged sixty four years , who first being 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 on the 3rd February  1853. granting  pensions to widows of persons  who served during the  Revolutionary war ; that she is the widow of Drury Hearn who was a revolutionary pensioner under the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 and that he was paid at the pension agency  at Charleston in this State, and for a description of his services she would refer  to the papers now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, she further declares that she was married to the said Drury Hearn on the seventeenth day of May  in year
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eighteen hundred and fourteen , and that her said husband died on the fourteenth day of October  eighteen hundred  and forty : that she was not married to him prior to the second of January , eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow.  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before  H.T. Wright ( signed ) O.E.D. Keren Hearn ( signed )
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[ State of South Carolina Edgefield District ] Before me personally came  Mrs. Hannah Kemp of said Dist. and upon oath  sayeth that she is  in her fifty fourth year & that she is  acquainted with one Caren Hearn of the Dist. aforesaid , wife of Drury Hearn , deceased, deponent says that in the year 1814 , she was present and saw  the aforesaid Karen  Hearn  married to the said Drury Hearn  dec'd , by one John Bulger  preacher of the Gospel, says that she has been tolerably intimate with the said parties front that time until the death of Mr. Hearn , and is yet acquainted with Mrs. Hearn ; says  she is knowing to the fact that the said parties did live together as man and wife till the time of the death of Mr. Hearn , further says, that she knew the fact that said  Drury Hearn  was always recognized as a  Revolutionary soldier , and that the general understanding  was that he drew a Pension as such.  Hannah Kemp ( signed ) Sworn to before me , the 15th day of July  A.D. 1853 . J. Quattlebaum ( signed ) M.E.D.  I do hereby certify to any whom it may concern , that I have been characteristically  acquainted with Mrs. Hannah Kemp for several years, and know her to be  a lady of good standing , whose word or oath is entitled to full credit. Witness my hand this 15th July 1853. J. Quattlebaum ( signed )  M.E.D.
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Hearn
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Brief in the case of Karen Hearn, wid: of Drury,
Edgefield District and State of South Carolina 
act 3rd Feby1853
____________________________

Claim, ("original," or ((for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? lf either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner, under the 
Act of 7th June 1832, 
marriage proven by
two witesses, who were present  at the marriage



(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Thos P. Morgan. Esq., [signature]
Present,
Name and residence of Agent

J C Boynton [signature]
Examining Clerk
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Keron Hearn
S.C. Act 1853, 2nd
Section-

Application for
Duplicate certificate
[illegible]

J.J. Coombs,
Present
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[ State of South Carolina Edgefield District ] On this fifth day of March  1859 before me J. Quattlebaum a Magistrate in and for the District and State aforesaid  personally appeared Keron Hearn  aged sixty seven years a resident of said District  and made oath in due form of law  that she is the identical Keron Hearn to whom a pension certificate as she is informed  and so believes was issued on 19th November 1857 under number 29340 at the rate of $80 per annum - which is lost or mislaid and cannot be found. that she is  firmly that she had some account for the missing  ... ( illegible ) certificate to the Magistrate but that said Magistrate is of  opinion that he gave it  her but at all events, it is lost or mislaid so that she cannot commence it  and therefore  needs this application and declaration for the purpose of obtaining a duplicate of said certificate No. 29340  from the pension office & hereby authorizes  her attorney  J. J. Coombs  Esquire of Washington  D.C to receive from  George C. Whiting  Esquire   Commissioner of Pensions said duplicate certificate for her .  Keron Hearn ( her mark X ) Executed in presence of  J. Quattlebaum  ( signed ) Witness  Jos N Goleman  ( signed )  Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written , and I certify that I know the  declarant  Keron Hearn  to be the identical person of that  name who is a pensioner of the U. S. as above set forth.  J. Quattlebaum ( signed )  M.E.D. Clerk of  Court certificate  & seal  I Tho. G. Bacon clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Gen. Sessions  of said Dist.  aforesaid do certify that J Quattlebaum  whose genuine signature  appears above is a duly qualified  Magt. for said Dist. and  all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. Given under
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my hand and seal of the Court at Edgefield Court House the 14th  May 1859. Tho. G. Bacon ( signed ) Clk C.P. ( vertical note ) ( Keron Hearn  S.C. Act 1853 , 2nd section ) ( Application for duplicate certificate in lieu of  cost due ) ( J.J. Coombs Present )
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Mrs. Karen Hearn  Mayor  Thomas P. Morgan Washington  Attorney
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, fc.*
STATE FF South Carolina
District of Edgefield
Be it known that before me
J. Quattlebum a Magt of said Dist personally appeared
Mrs. Caron Hearn
aged 64, years, who being duly cautioned and
then sworn in due form of law, states that She is the Widow of Drury Hearn late of since did dec's who was a revolutionary t Pensioner in the state of South Carolina
and that he died on the fourteenth day of October 1841
and that they were
married on the 17th day of May  in the year 1814 , and that they were residents of Edgefield Dist in the State of South Carolina and that they resided there twenty  SO years, and that
she resides in the dist &  State aforesaid, and that furthermore, she BY THESE
PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of
substitution, Thomas P. Morgan , of Washington city, D. C., as her true and lawful Attorney for Me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government and State officers My rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due me as the widow of Drury Hearn, as in right of law I may be entitled.

In witness whereof, I have on this. twenty first day March, A D 1853
hereunto signed my name, and affixed my seal.
                                                                  Karen Hearn [signature]                                  
Witness: Elbert Bledsoe [signature]  
Witness: J Quattlebum [signature]  
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Mrs Keren Hearn is always by the community been known as the wife of Drury Hearn late of Edgefield Dist deced. Dated on this 21st  day of March, 1853
J. J Quattlebum [signature]

State of South Carolina 
Dist of Edgefield              

to with
I hereby certify, That
before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment
made, and who has thereunto subscribed his
name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace and for the Dist aforesaid, duly commissioned
and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of Edgefield
District County Court, this The twenty third day of March one thousand eight
hundred and fifty three
Tho G Bacon [signature]
Clerk. E. D. So. eCa.
[illegible] plies, state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband." [illegible]what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner-and amount of pension.
J. J Quattlebum [signature], Sleepy Creek P.O. Edgefield Dist. S.C.
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[ State of North Carolina  Su... ( illegible ) ]  I  William Hill Secretary of ... in and for the State of  n. Carolina  do hereby certify that it  ... ( illegible ) from the  muster roll in this office that Drury .. ( illegible ) served as a  regular soldier  in the North Carolina line in the revolutionary war in the third regiment  in Emmet's Company and was regularly discharged  on the 10th of November  1778 . from said service. Given under my hand at office in Raleigh the date above. Wm Hill ( signed ) Secretary of State.
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[stamp - illegible]
SC
NOV 5 
CAID

Thomas P. Morgan
Washington City
D. C.

[vertical]

Karon Hearn
Wid.
Drury
[illegible] 1133

Filed by Thomas P. 
Morgan Esq
Present
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Hamburg  4th Nov. '53. Dear Sir, Enclosed you will find the declaration of Mrs. Hearn  together with a scrip  relative to the marriage of Drury  Hearn  & herself ; also the certificate of Maj. Bacon  the clerk of our Court  in relation to the fact, that there is but one Ordinary  in our Dist.  and that his Courts are recognized  as Courts of record etc.,  which we  hope will be satisfactory  to the Pension office department. Please , on the reception of this, inform us of your success  & of the amt  Mrs. Hearn will receive, should you succeed  in establishing her claim.  You  direct your address to Sleepy Creek  P.O. Edgefield Dist.  S.C. Nothing but this affidav. enclosed.   Very respectfully yours J. Quattlebaum ( signed )   Thos. P. Morgan Esq.
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Washington  24th July 1853 Commissioner of Pensions   Sir, I send herewith some additional papers in the case of Mrs. Caron Hearn , and also a correct power of Attorney . The first paper were filed  June 16th  1853. Your obt Sert. Thos . P. Morgan ( signed )
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Planter's & Mechanic's Bank of So. Ca. Charleston  8th  March 1837  J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington  Sir  I forward herewith for authority from you to pay  , voucher of Drury Hearn  upon which  12 months  pension is due. I am  very Respectfully  your obt servt.  A. Spears ( signed ) Pension Agent
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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  
 Drury Hearn                                                                                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 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 amount 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? Yes 

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

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

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

Has the the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? ----

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? Yes 

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7.
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                                                                     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 such 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.  

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 their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as 
well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the 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. 

(note) 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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Brief in the case of Karen Hearn widow of Drury -
Edgefield Dist and Stae of South Carolina
a February 3 1833.
___________________________
Claim for New Pension Certificate,

Proof Exhibited
That the original has been lost or 
mislaid and after due search cannot
be found.

Name and resident of Agent.
J.J. Coombs [signature]
Present

A G Fowler
Examining Clerk. [signature]