Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1049, for John Mc Kenzie, North Carolina
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[typed form with handwritten responses]

SERVICE
N.C. 
S.C.
Va

McKenzie, John
Martha

NUMBER 
W. 1049
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2960

Tennessee
Martha M. McKenzie
widow of John McKenzie
who served in the Revolutionary
war as a Captain of Cary. 
Va and S.C. Line 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
600 Dollars - 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Jne 1st from $180

Certificate of Pension issued the
3 day of June 1851
and sent to 
R.W. Young
Present

-ed on Roll of Pensioners und-
-ry 2, 1848, Page 295 Vol  [rest cut out by torn paper]
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Communicated.
DRESDEN, Nov. 11, 1842. 

Dear Sir: -- Col. J, McKENZIE, of Carroll County, Tenn., departed this life on Thurday night of 5th instant, between 10 and 12 o'clock, aged 85 years 1 month and 10 days. Born September 5, 1757. He was an officer of the Revolution, and an Aid to Genl. Green at the battle of Guilford, N.C. Thus it is, those who achieved our glorious Independence are daily passing away. Col. J. McKenzie, a patriot of the Revolution, is no more. -- His funeral will be preached at Caledonia by the Rev. Mr. Baker, on the 20th inst. The funeral will be in the ancient Masonic form, the dec'd being a Mastor Mason. The fraternity are respectfully invited to attend.
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[typed form with handwritten responses]

13, 587

Tennessee

John McKenzie dec'd. 
of Carroll County in the State of Tennessee
who was a Capt of law in the ____  commanded by Captain ____ of the ____ commanded by ____ in the Va N.C. S.C. Continental line for 2 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Jackson 
at the rate of 600 dollars __ Cents per annum,
to commence on he 4th day of March, 1831. & ending 5. Nov. 1842. Incd from $480. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of June 1851 & sent to R.W. Young Present

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{ Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by W.M. Rain CLerk, 
Book E2 Vol. 7 Page 77
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24.401
John McKenzie
Carroll Co 
Tennessee

from 1776 Captiain
12 years
$480


Edward Gwin Clerk
Carroll Co Tennessee
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office 

183

Sir: 

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tubular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, showing the Service of John McKenzie, Carroll Co Tennessee

[table with following columns: Period when the service was rendered. | Duration of the claimant's service. | Years. | Months. | Days. | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported.]

1776 | 1 | " | " | Cap. | Gen. Lewis Maj. Parker Cap. Talbot | 75 years Halifax Co Virginia | His certificate of Captancy | 

1777(8) | 2 | " | " | Capt. | Col. T. Sumpter Gen. Davidson " Green | 75 years Halifax Co Virginia | Witness E. Gwin Jas. Gaen Jas. Furgcis B. Gilbert |

To 1782 He states 5 years in all | 1 | 6 | " | " | " | " | " |

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J.L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all pensions enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound in military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians [musicians]. or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State, Territory, or District of } ss.
County of

On this ____ day of ____ personally appeared (a) before ____ A.B. a resident of (b) in the county of ___ and State, Territory, or District of __ aged (c) _____ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___, with ___ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the ____ line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service, the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [hand sign pointing to the right] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ______

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

A.B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I _____ of the Court of ____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ___ day of ___ &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the ____ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ____ 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.

Sworn and subscribed the days and years aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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 applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, ____ Clerk of the Court of ___ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ___ for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ____ day of ___ &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.

1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. { To a soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{ To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons- one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily informity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge of Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily informity, atttend [attend] the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and befre the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily informity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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 as a ________. For _____ months and ___ days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he 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.
Mode of authenticating papers [italicized]
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 papers 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.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's 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.
[hand with index finger pointing to the right] The notes from (a) to (j) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops. The proof required by rule in more (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Joseph Rowen
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State of Mississippi 
De Soto County } 

On this the 26th day of October 1846 personally appeared before me David J. White one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the Sd County Mrs Martha MKenzie a resident of Carroll County Tennessee now on a visit at the Daughters in Sd De Soto County aged seventy one years 8th day January last who doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed July the 7th 1838 March the 3rd 1843 June the 17th 1844 and the joint resolution 23rd of January 1848 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of John M McKenzie who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum and drew his pension in Jackson State of Tennessee for services rendered during the Revolutionary War She further declaresthat she was married to the sd [said] John McKenzie as stated in a former Declaration made by her in 1843 on the twentyth day of December seventeen hundred and ninety two (1792) in Washington County State of Georgia that her husband the sd [said] John McKenzie died in Carroll County Tennessee and the fifth day of November on the fifth day of November eighteen hundred and forty two (1842) that since his death she has not intermarried and still remains the widow of him the said John McKenzie Desd [deceased] that she was not married to hm previous to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 to wit at the time above states she further declares that she has no documentary or record proof in support of her claim except an old work sample which is now at her residence in Carroll County which sample she had previous to her marriage and which contains the precise date of her marriage to the said John McKenzie
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Worked with a needle in letters and figured thus Patsey Bonner married the 20 day of December 1792 to Mr John McKenzie which she thinks is as well as she rekollects is the precise entry on said sample though it may not be word for word as above given but is the same in substance not having the said sample with her that when she was married she had said sample and made the said entry than on but a few weeks after she was married she also started to enter the date of the birth of her brother James Bonner but did not finish it and said sample has also the full alphabet worked on it both in large and small letters which alphabet she had worked on said sample before she was married she further states that after she was married her husband the said John McKenzie Kept a family record which did contain the date of her marriage & births of their children which record was accidently burnt upwards of twenty years ago she further declares that her first child Jeremiah H. McKenzie was born on the 6th day of November 1793 She further states that in teh year 1843 she did make a Declaration claiming a pension in right of her said Husband to which declaration she was qualified to in open Cort in Carroll County Tennessee and which was sent on with several affidavits in support of her claim to the department by her son Jeremiah H. McKenzie who has since informed her that the claim was rejected shealos attached hereto the Obituary indicating her husband's death 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year fist above written 
Marth McKenzie [seal]

David J. White
Justice of the Peace for
DeSoto County, Mississippi
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State of Tennessee }
Carroll County } 

Declaration of John McKenzie

in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, on this day appeared in open Court Col John McKenzie a resident of the county of Carroll State of Tennessee who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration

This declarant states that in the year 1776 - in the county of Halifax and state of Virginia declarant and between fifteen and twenty other young men the tract number not now recollected agreed to volunteer and join the Untied States troops then employed with the service of the United States - Declarant states that by this Company he was Elected their Captain and look up the line of March and went to Portsmouth at which place there was then stationed a number of Regiments this declarant and his young company was attached to the 5th Regiment then commanded by a Major Parker the Col. not recollected and mustered in the Company of Captain Talbott this declarant does not now fully recollect the whole of the officers in command then at that time, but recollects that the 6th Regiment was commanded by Col Buckner and the whole brigade commanded by General Lewis. as my company was not large enough in number to be kept as a separate company they were principly attached to the company of Capt Talbot and the General appointed this declarant touring commissary to the company in some time thereafter the army to which declarant was attached was ordered to march from Dartmouth and did so they marched to Springfield from thence to the Deep Springs from thence to Point Comfort & from thence to Williamsburgh. At this later place declarant became sick after sending a tower of twelve men from this point declarant returned home in the year 1777 and as well as Declarant now recollects he went into the State of South Carrolina and after being there some short time beingand  superintending the war works of HIll and Wayne he was in that year again elected Captain of a volunteer company in which capacity he served two years more - their company was commanded by Col Thomas Sumpter whom this declarant voted for for that office - Col Sumpter gave this declarant a commission wrote and signed by said Col at this period General Lincoln - commanded the southern division but during the service of this declarant in the command aforesaid Col Sumpter was elected or promoted to the command and title of General Sumpter and with him and under his command declarant in company of five or six regiments marched to Rocky Mount where the British and tories had a strong pact or fortified fort this place was attacked by the then command of General Sumpter but without effect as the American troops  were repulsed - in this attack Col Neal and many other brave men lost their lives after this Repulse the army crossed the Catawba for the purpose of Recruiting - after three or four days
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rest the line of March was taken up for the purpose of forming a junction with General Gates and joining his army. This was in the summer of seventeen hundred & eighty but before we reached him he and his troops were defeated at Camden by the British forces under the command of of Genl Cornwallis - in two or three days we were met by the British under the command of Col Talton an engagement took place which resulted in the defeat of the American troops the ameress troops then recrossed the Catawba retreating and recruited some forces and returned to the South in a marching whereto they had many engagements and skirmises one at the Hanging Rock one at Ridgely's miles at the later [crossed out "of"] place the American troops were successful and took many prisoners & in all which tour and service this declarant acted in the capacity of Captain - as there mills Declarant fell in company and got acquainted with Col. Wm Washington an other officers of the Continental Army.  After this Engagement declarant with his company was orderd by Genl Sumpter to go and quave the Iron Docks of Hillst Wayne at which place there was a large quantity of cannon that and other articles necessary and intended for the American Army - while at this station Declarant was attacked by a regiment of the British and tories commanded by Col Gordon and Capt Hook. Who after all the resistance that could be made defeated Declarant  & his company and destroyed the works - Declarant marched immediately and joined General Davidson in Macklinburgh County in the State of North Carolina - declarant acted under the command of Genl Davidson as contractor for Salibsury District and with an Epress agreement that Declarant was to act as Captain in any engagement which the forces under General Davidson might have with the Enemy in a short time after this appointment the forces under Genl Davidsons command met the British forces under Lord Cornwallis at Beaksford on the Catawbe River but which place an engagement took place which resulted in the defeat of the American Army and the loss of our Genl - who fell in the Engagement in this engagement declarant acted as Captain of a company. After the fall of General Davison the Command Tevolvea upon General Perkins who retreated with the army to widow Torencies seven miles from the battle ground we were pursued by Col Talton and overtaken where an other engagement took place where we were again compelled to retreat
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and give way to Superior Discipline and force here we last about one hundred of our men  in killed wound & prisoners - we than marched and joined the army under General Nathanael Green at Dan River this was same time in the beginning of the year 1781 Declarant continued under the command of General Green from that time until the Battle of Guilford - at this Battle this declarant acted as one of the aids of General Green in consequence of some indisposition of one of and the generals aids who was unable to act for him on that day this battle was fought in the month of March 1781. As well as declarant now recollects from this Battle ground the army under the command of General Green retreated for some miles and again drew up in order to give battle to the British who it was expected were in pursuit  of us - but we soon had information that the British army were on their retreat from their Battle ground - the army of General Green not then being in a situation to pursue the British as we were then Exhausted and out of military stores Declarant at that time was known in the American Army by the name of the Big Virginia Captain - General Green then and as soon as it was ascertained that the British were retreating sent for Declarant and gave him the command of five volunteers militia companies who volunteered their service with instruction to this declarant to keep the British forces ^under the command of Lord Rawdon at Camden in check or to anoy their march untill the whole American Army could be got in good order to over take them or going the companies thus given me. This declarant would [crossed out, illegible] at the state line his men refused to go any further here his pursuit ceased - at [crossed out] time that this Declarant parted from General Green General Green and his forces with the exception of these sent with Declarant were on their line of March after Lord Cornwallis  & his troops - when Declarant ascertained that the militia under his command refused to cross their state line he relinquished the command and immediately went to see his old friend and acquainted General Sumpter who at that time was confined in Charlotte by a wound which he had received in the shoulder same short time before - General Sumpter gave Declarant on his arrival a Captain's Commission in the State troops of light dragoons of South Carolina - Declarant immediately sit out and in about ten days enlisted one hundred men for ten months and immediately joined the main army under the command of General Sumpter then on the Congaree Declarant attached his company to the regiment then. commanded by Col Wm Hill the Regiment to which his declarant was attached marched in company with the Regiment's command
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commanded by Cols Lea & Washington against the Bri [British] outposts at at Newmarket and had an engagement at Camden also at Orangeburg and other places and took large quantities  of stores and munitions of war - when was deposited at Camden. Under the care of Capt Godfrey Adams - in some short time after this Declarant was ord [ordered] by General Sumpter to take command of the stores  at Camden at which place Declarant continued until the stores were disposed off when Declarant returned to camps - again at this time an account of the Number of men killed and many solodation took place amongst the officers of the army I had then in the army in which I was in service a Brother older than myself holding also the command of captain then known in Army by the name Capt McKenzie. Declarant saw that both himself and brother should not have commands as there were many valiant and brave men Equally Entitled Empelled by this motive declarant at this time bring desirous to promote his countrys cause and having been long in the habit of commanding companies and detachments of men Declarant tho [thought] he could in that situation render most benefit  he could in company with Capt Robert Tate and some other officers set out from the army of General Sumpter and again joined the army under General Green at Jackson being and joined a regiment commanded by Col Malmedy in which service declarant continued untill the army of General Green was disbanded or discharged in the year 1782 - as well as this declarant now recollects. This declarant states that from the beginning of the year 1776 untill the disbanding of the army of the South to which he was attached in year 1782 thw whole of this period with the exception  of about one year and one half was by this declarant spent in the plains and tented fields with his Brothers in arms defending his countrys wrongs - Declarant states that for about the space of five years he spent in the service of his country henever eas lower in command than as a Captain and when he acted in higher it was only for tempory or urgent responses - this declarant states that during the whole of his services he acted for his country as a volunteer in her service
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Interogatories put by the Court to the Declarant 

1st Where were you born and in what year
Answer: I was born in the state of Virginia in Albamord [Albemarle] County in the year 1757 on the 17th day of September

2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answer- 
I have had a book in which my age was written for the purpose of preserving the same but it was burnt by accident many years ago.

3rd When were you living when you were called into the army or service - where have you lived since the Revolutionary Wat and where do you now live-
Answer - in 1776 - when the cause of my country required my services I lived in Halifax County in the State of Virginia from which place I volunteered - after the army was discharged. I settled in the state of Georgia and continue to live there until 1816 of 1817 - at which time I removed to Murray [Maury] County Tennessee where I continued to live with my family untill 1828 when I moved to the County of Carroll and state of Tennessee where I now live. 

4th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were yo a substitute and if a substitute for whom -
Ansr- I volunteered and at no period during the war did I wait either for a ball or draft but attended and rendered my services then as now believing that my life could not be spent in a better cause. 

5th State the names of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect  and the general circumstances of you service - 
Answer: if was acquainted with general Marion-Pickins Col DeMalmady I was well acquainted with General Green Commander of the regular forces - I was also well acquainted with General Sumpter as was also acquainted with Col Wm [William] Washington commander of the house - and with all the foregoing officers I ahve at different times served during the Southern Campain and as to the general circumstances  of my service that is answered  by my Declaration - except services rendered from 1791 to 1795 for upwards of three years of this time I was employed in building forts & defending the county against the incursions & warfare of the Creek Indians at the United States Fort Racklanding - 2 sisters a fort built by myself and the man then under my command the Racklanding Fort was then 1791  - commanded by Col Gaither in the year 1792 I was bt Col Gaither put in command of the Rocklanding fort again the Creek Indians in the service and in building forts & other service I lost from the year 1791 until 1795 making the roll [words cut off] together with a hand five years in the militia anda number of which [illegible]
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6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so who has become of it?
Answer We had agreed to meet at New Market with state of South Carolina and at the time appointed I was the oldest officer beloging to the regiment of Col Hill to which i was then attached on that backend this declarant got no discharged - nor did declarant then did you ever receive a commission and if so what has been of it?

Answer I received two commissions one from General Sumpter to the command of Captain of a volunteer company in the year 1778 or 1779 . This Commission I lost - the other I received in the year 1781  and a is herewith transmitted Marked & this is all the documentary evidence of service which I now have of my service in the Revolutionary War But I have with produce the deposition of your honourable and respectable men each of whom are personally known to this  court - to wit the deposition of Col Edward given taken before Samuel Ingram Esqr the Chairman of this Court on the 16th day of Sept 1851. 

The deposition of James Greer taken before WW Foreman Esqr of Carroll County of the 16th day of Septr 1832

The Deposition of James Fergus taken in open court septemb [September] 13th 1832

The Deposition of Captn Benjamin Gilbert taken before Edm- MGee of the acting justices of the Bowen & for the car- bearing date 12th of January 1832 - the foregoing named gentlemen Declarant met at different places during the hour in the Southern Army of the Revolution and as their standing and caracter is known to this court and the city generally it is hoped that court will certify their opinion of the Declarant 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 any state or service sworn to and subscribed in open court 

John McKenzie [signature] 

We Robert Baker clergyman residing in the county of Carroll and State of Tennessee and Edmond McGee & Edard Gee living in the County and state aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Col John McKenzie who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration that we believe him to be of the age of seventy five years that he is generally reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been an officer of the Revolution and that in concur in that opinion

Sworn to in open court the day & year here written

Robt Baker [signature]
Edward McGee [signature] 
Edward Givin [signature]
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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the Matter and after puting the Interogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary officer and Served as he States and the Court further Certify that it appears to them and that they know that Robert Baker who Signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman Resident of Carroll County and state of Tennessee and that Edmond W G L Edward Given Who has also signed the same is a Resident of in the County of Carroll and State aforesaid is a credible person and that their Statement is Intitled to Credit and the Court do hereby
further Certify that the depositions of Edward Given Senior
James Greer James Fergins and Benjamin Gilbert which is
here Produced in Court as part of Declarants Proof is intitled
to full faith and Credit and that the Persons who Swore to
and Signed each of Said Depositions were Credible Persons
and that their and Each of their Statements are Entitled to
Credit and the Said Court further Certify that Each of Said witneses
 were at the time of Signing said Depositions very old men in age
Some where between Seventy & Eighty year each March term 1833
Edmond M. Gee
Saml Ingram Clerk
of Carroll County
Court
Henry Wright Justice of the peace
Wilson Nesbett Justice of the p
Wm [illegible] Justice of the peace
of Edward Gwin Clerk of the Court of Plias and Quarter
Sessions in and for the County of Carroll in the State of
Tennessee do hereby Certify that the foregoing Six pages &
4 Depositions Contain the original Proceedings of the Court
in the Matter of the application of Col John McKenzie of Carroll
County for a pension under the act of Congress passed June
7th 1832
 The Testamony whereof I have hereunto Set my
hand and Seal of office
at office this
13th day of March 1833
Edward Gwrn clerk
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John McKenzie 
24401
A
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nothing to transcribe
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[text knitted onto cloth]

ABCCEDDEFGHIJKLMNNOPQR
SSTTUVWWWXYZ 1234

W W W W W X Y Z

PB her sampler, she -------- J775
Va., born in the year of our lord
PILS 26 B48829 BC2862 Bannd

Banner Xer Sampler
She was born the 6 Day of January in the year 1776 and also married the 20 day of December [burnt out text] John McKenzie

James [burnt out text] the Patsey McKenzie
2 day of [burnt out text] John McKenzie
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Rev. and 1812
War Section. 

AWJ 
Au

May 22, 1924. 

G.S. Lannoon,
Humboldt, 
Tenn. 

Sir;

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 1049, it appears that John McKenzie was born on September 17, 1757, in Albemarle County, Virginia.

While residing in Halifax County, Virginia in 1776 he was Captain and Issuing Commissary for one year under Major Parker in the Virginia Troops. 

In 1777 or 1778 he was Captain in Colonel Thomas Sumter's South Carolina Regiment, was also Contractor for Salisbury District under General Davidson. He was Captain of Light Dragoons in Colonel William Hills' South Carolina Regiment and Captain in Colonel Malmedy's North Carolina Regiment, he was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Hanging Rook, Camden, Rugley's Mills, Ironworks, Torrence's Tavern, Guilford, New Market, Beatties Ford and Orange-
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burg and was discharged in 1782.


From 1791 to 1795 he was on guard duty against the Creek Indians.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 13, 1833, while a resident of Carroll County, Tennessee and he died there November 5, 1842.

Soldier married December 20, 1792 in Washington County
Georgia, Martha (Patsey ) Bonner, who was born January 8, 1775 and she was allowed pension on her application executed October 3, 1843, while a resident of Carroll County,Tennessee.

Two sons were alive in 1843- Jeremiah H. born November 6, 1793 and Alexander A. aged forty four years.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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[handwritten]
John McKenzie W. File 1,049

Linen Sampler made by Patsey (Martha) Bonner, on which is worked the date
of her birth, and her marriage to John McKenzie, etc., has been removed from the
case and locked up in the Record Division. REV. WAR SECTION
I. S. C.
July 5,1910.
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Rev War WIDOW, &c. 

File No. 1049
Martha McKenzie
widow
John McKenzie
Cpat, Cav, Rev War. 

Act: Feb 2, 1848
Index: -- Vol. M Page 17
(Arrangement of 1870.)

[Left side of document, some text is partially cut off]

Sellard- that the request for death of both pensioners must come be used in litigation, or if not to be the object for the request + if under authority from this that are Prior

urray,  Carroll C " letter 3d Auditor for certificate death Prior

McKenzie to apply to 3d date of deaths-

1910 July 5. Hist. to Mrs. John Fitt + ,
1919 Apl. 22. Hist. to Miss Louise Scates +

1922, Apl. 20 Hist to Miss Mary E. Timberlake - Eu.

1924 - Mch 21- Date of [illegible] death military Hist. sent R. L. Foster CWF:

1924-May 22 Hist to G. S.
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Tennessee 10,046.
---
Martha McKenzie
Widow of John W.  McKenzie
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 5, Nov. 1842
of Carroll Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a Capt. Cavy [Cavalry], in the
---
commanded by Captain
---
of the regt.
commanded by Col. Buckner in
the
line for
---
inscribed on the Roll of Jackson
at the rate of 200 Dollars -----
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of
Decr. 1846, and sent to M E Jones
Present
---
Total amount,
$_________________
(Act July 7, 1838.)
Recorded by D, Brown
Clerk,
Book D.
Vol 1. Page 351
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[handwritten]
Martha McKenzie
and one of John McKenzie, Captain Cavalry
-
$200 per ann
acts
-
38
43 & 
44
quant
1302
---
married Dec. 20, 1792.
husband died 5 Nov. 1842
---
Tennessee Roll
Jackson Agency
Cert: to
W. E. Jones Esq
of Tennessee
Present
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[handwritten]
Increase
John McKenzie decd
Tennessee
Act 7 June 32.
Adm 2 yrs Capt Cavl [Cavalry] $600.
per an: from 4 March 31
to 5 Novr. '42 when he de [died]
former paymts to be
deducted.
Payable to Martha
McKenzie his widow.
Cert to
R. W. Young
Present
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[handwritten]
Increase
Martha McKenzie
wid of John.
Tennessee
Act, 7 July 38.[crossed out] &c. &c.
[illegible] 2 yr Capt Cavalry $600
per an from [crossed out] 5 Nov '42 when he died [/crossed out]
4 March '43
Former payments to be deducted
payable to her.
Cert to
R. W. Young
Present.
Page 29

8041.
Tennessee Jackson
Martha McKenzie
widow of John McKenzie
who was a
Captain of Cavalry
Va. N. C. S. C. Continental
in the Revolution
husband died 5th Nov. '42
---
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
480 Dollars---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of Jany '49.
and sent to
Hon. D. Graham
Treasury Dept.
Acts of March 3, 1843, and June
17, 1844.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2
Page 194
Increased from $200. Deduct
all former payment.
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1558
West Tennessee
John McKenzie
of Carrol Co in the State of Tenn
who was a Captain in the____
comma[nded]
by Captain --- of the Regt --- comman[ded]
by Cole Sumpter in the Va
line for 2 years
S. C.
N.C.
Continental
---
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 480 Dollars Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of May
1833 and Sent Edward Given
Huntingdon
---
Arrears to the 4th of March 960.0 [960.00]
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 240. [240.00]
____
$1200.00
Book E
   Revolutionary Claim,
⎨ Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk,
Book E
Vol. 7
Page 88
See letter 13 July 1853 to Agent
[text missing] officer [illegible] to Hon. J. Grundy
June 25. 1836
let: 21 Dec 40 Hon
W. B. Campbell (see origl
Corresp)
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Jack 2960
Tennessee
Martha McKenzie
widow of John McKenzie
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Capt. of Cavy
Va. N.C. S.C. Continental 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
480 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848

Certificate of Pension issued
11th day of Jany 49 
and sent to Hon. D. Graham,
Treasury Dept 

Recorded on Rolls of Pensioners on
February 2, 1848, Page 294, Vol 3

[illegible] 
D. Graham Jany 1849 
Sent to J.W. Campbell
March 27, 1849
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
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8041
Tennessee
Martha M Kenzie
widow of
John
who was a Capt of Cav. [Cavalry]
in the
Revolution
Va. N.C. S.C. & Continental
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 600 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Increased from 1480.
---
Certificate of Pension issued
the 23d. day of June 1851
and sent to
R. W. Young
Present
-----
(Acts of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844.)
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2
Page 174
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8041
Jackson Tennessee
---
Martha McKenzie
widow of John McKenzie
who was a captain of Cavalry
in the Revolution
Va
N.C.
S.C.
Continental
---
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
200 Dollars---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
---
Certificate of Pension issued the
15.th day of December 1846.
and sent to W. E. Jones, Esq.
Present

Vol.
22.
(Acts of March 3, 1843.
& June of 1844)
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2. 
Page 194.
Reported
Let. to Hon. W. Barrow
August 22 '48
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10046
Tennessee
Martha McKenzie
a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 5 Nov. 1842
of Carroll in the State of Tenn.
who was a Capt of Cav [Cavalry] in the---
commanded by Captain ---
of the---commanded by---
in the Revolution line
for 2 years
Va. N. C.  S. C. & Continental
---
Inscribed on the Roll of Jackson
at the rate of 480 Dollars---
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.
2 [illegible]. 25 Jany
1845 & 1 July, 1848.
---
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of
Jany. '49 and sent to Hon.
D. Graham
Treasury Dept
Total amount, $__________
(Act July 7, 1838.)
Recorded by 
Th Lumpkin Clerk,
Book D
Vo. 1
Page 357.
Increased from $200. Dedu[cted]
all former payments.
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[handwritten]
The enclosed
Commission was
found in mutilated
condition when case
was opened by me
Dec 17, 1910
LH
Page 36

SOUTH CAROLINA.
By his Excellency JOHN RUTLEDGE, Esq, Governor and Commander in chief of the field Rate.
To John McKenzie Esq
I REPOSING special trust and confidence in your courage, good conduct, and in your fidelity and attachment to the united States of America, have commissioned and appointed, and by these present do commission and appoint, you field [illegible] to be [illegible due to heavy water damage]

This commission to continue during pleasure [water damage]
Given under my hand and seal, this
Anno Domini 1784 and in the [water damage]
America.
By his excell[ency] [missing text] command
Secretary
[illegible] the United States of AMERIC[A]
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[handwritten]
Martha McKenzie
Widow of John
on the Tennessee
Roll under the
Act of 1838-
Ex B
R. W. Young
Present
May 15-51
Page 38

[handwritten]
the Hon J L Edwards
Sir
Commissioner of Pensions
You will be pleased to allow my Agent
R. W. Young Washington D.C. to examine the papers
on file in your office, upon which a pension
was originally granted to Martha McKenzie
widow of John McKenzie and &C. April 4th 1851.
Hon & J L Edwards Commission[er]
of Pensions
Martha McKenzie
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[handwritten]
State of Tennesse    
Carroll County        ⎬  Personally appeared
before me William W. Forman one of the
acting Justices of the peace in
and for said county Lewis Gen
and being sworn as the Law directs
deposeth and saith that he was
acquainted with Col John McKenzie
and that said McKenzie did serve
in the Revolutionary War, in the State of
South Carolina in Orangeburg and
Charleston
Sworn to and subscribed 
before me this Sept
13"th 1832
W W Froman JP
Page 40

[handwritten]
State of Tennessee
Carroll County
this day appeared in open Court
James Fergus
made oath in due form of law and saith
that during the same time in the year
Seventeen hundred & Seventy nine & Seventeen hundred and Eighty
this affiant personally knew Col McKenzie
to have been engaged in the Revolutionary
War in Defence of his Country as an officer
affiant is now about seventy six years of age
and knew Col. McKenzie when
the service in South Carrolina [Carolina] Sworn to
in open Court September 18th 1832-
Edward Given Clerk
James Fergus
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P. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten]
Planters & Mechanics Bank of S C
Charleston 6 April 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions}
Sir
I forward Voucher of James
Mosely Jr or a pensioner under act
June 1832.
Allow me to refer you to your favor of
11th Decr. '35 which returned voucher of same
applicant refusing authority to pay for the
reasons therein specified
I am Respectfully
Your Obed Svt
F. Lawrence
Pension Agent
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[handwritten]
Pension Office Jackson Tennessee
29 January 1849
Sir,
Yours of 11 inst is recd. informing me that the pension
of Martha McKenzie, widow of John McKenzie, had been increased
under the Acts of 1838, 1843 & 1844, from $200. to $480. per ann.
and instructing me to pay her at the increased rate, under each
of said Acts, deducting all former payments.
John McKenzie received his pension at this office up to 5 November 1842, the time
of his death, at the rate of $480. per ann. - Martha McKenzie received
her pension at this office, under the Act of 7 July 1838, from 4 March
1836, to 4 March 1841, at the rate of $200. per ann. - does she
receive $280 per ann. in addition for those 5 years? John McKenzie having received
his pension up to 1842, and Martha McKenzie, his widow, a pension during the same time - Is there not an error in this? 
Under the Acts of 1843, & 1844, she received a pension from 4
March 1843 to 4 March 1848, at $200 per ann. - under these Acts
I suppose she received an increased pension of $80 per ann. John
McKenzie not having drawn any pension during that time.
In making my statement, showing the amount of funds that
would probably be required to pay pensions during the year ending
September 15. 1849, these increased pensions were not taken into consideration
since that time, the Act of 2 Feb 1848 has been passed, and several
pensioners placed on the Roll under that Act-- also some arising
from the Mexican War - none of which were reported - so that a much
larger sum will be required to pay the pensioners at this office,
on the 4th of March next, than was anticipated at that time.
Very Resplly [Respectfully]
[illegible] Commissioner
Pen Agt.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.
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[handwritten]
Washington April 18th 1857.
Hon James E Heath
Com of Pensions      ⎬
Sir
As the agent of Martha
McKenzie, Widow of John, I respectfully ask, that
her claim an increase of Pension may be considered
It will be seen that McKenzie was a Captain [illegible]
therefore his widow is entitled to a pension of
$600. per Annum.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Svt 
R.W. Young
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[handwritten]
Washington City
May 30th 1849.
Col. J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir In the case of Mrs Martha
McKenzie to whom you allowed an increase of
pension of $280. per year in January last. I have to request that
you will again refer to her case as the pension again
J. M. Campbell of Jackson Tennessee refuses to pay the old
Lady as much as you allowed her upon the ground that a
part of the amount extended back for the same period that
her husband had received a pension and Mr Campbell says
that he wrote to you about the last of January upon that
subject but which letter you had not answered nor will he
pay the old Lady Mrs McKenzie any further until he receives
an answer from you. therefore as she is anxious to get the
amount which Mr Campbell withholds I request that you
will refer to his letter of January and answer it so that
Mrs McKenzie can get her mony [money].
Very Respectfully
your obt Servant
Wm E. James
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[handwritten]
H. R. April 15. 1846
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dr. Sir,
Will you be so good as to answer the inquiries of the letter enclosed herein as early as convenient and much oblige[d]
Yours most respectfully
Milton [illegible]
Page 47

M 9778
14 Oct 1848

Ten. Martha McKenzie
Act 1868 

L.Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions 
Office Washington City
Page 48

Sgt. Edward will please act on this claim early as covenant and inform me the result by letter to Trenton Gibson County Tennessee and oblige  Yours Respectfully 3rd October 1843
J.H. McKenzie
Page 49

Washington City
12 January 1849

To the Commissioner 
of Pensions

The last portion of this letter refers to an application of Martha McKenzie which I filed on 11 November last, with a long explanatory letter from Wm D Jones the write of this. 

Very Respectfully, 
Daniel Graham
Page 50

Washington City
June 28th 2849

Col J.L. Edwards

Dr Sir your letter relative to the money due Mrs Martha McKenzie widow of the later Capt John McKenzie decd which is withheld by John W. Campbell pension agent at Jackson Tenn has been received; in which you state that in March last you directed Mr Campbell to pay over to Mrs McKenzie the whole amount of her pension due her as for certificate H. 

And in reply again I would suggest that on the 18th of May last I received a letter from a friend of Mrs. M.K. who informed me that up to that time the agent at Jackson had not received any such instructions will you therefore address him again on the subject and direct him to pay the full amount due her as per her certificates, as I suppose your letter to him of March last must have miscarried; your immediate attention to this will do Mrs McKenzie a particular favour ; - 

I am Very Respectfully &c,
Wm E Jones
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State of Georgia
Washington County

Clerks Office Court of Ordinary

I Haywood Brookins Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in and for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that I have examined the records of marriages had in this county for the record of the marriage of John McKenzie to Martha Bonner who was married in this county in the year seventeen hundred and ninety two, which record I cannot find, and the records of this court was very imperfectly kept in that time. I find that a part of the records have been lost I find on examinations of said records that a part of one of the record (Book C) in which marriage licens [license] were recorded has been torn or lost, for that book, which book contains marriages of a very ancient date, and it is very possible that John McKenzie marriage above refered [referred] to was recorded on that portion of the book that was destroyed. 

Given under my hand and seal of office in Sandersville this twenty fifth (25) day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six (1846)

Haywoof Brookins Clk
Page 52

Huntingdon, Tennessee

J.L. Edwards Esqr

Sir

The last session of Congress passed a law extending pensions of the widows of Revolutionary soldiers Col John McKenzie joined the army of the Revolution in 1776 at Portsmouth Virginia and was discharged 1792 he got a certificate of pension and drew the pay of a Colonel until his death which was about 3 years ago his widow who is still alive drew what was due him until his death but has never drawn any since she wants to know whether she comes under the provision of law extending pensions to widows or whether she would be entitled to draw pay as a widow and what is necessary to bring her within the provisions of the law if she is entitled to pension please instruct me what steps to take to enable her to receive her pay for she needs help and if thereis anything due her ought to have it sometime in the year 1791 or 2 Col John McKenzie had two negros to run away from him when he
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lived in the State of Georgia and went to the Creek Indians and were lost to him entirely Congress appropriated money to pay for the negros and he received one thousand dollars at Milledgeville in Georgia some 15 or 16 years ago and some 6 or 7 years after there money was appropriated to pay the interest on such claims and that was forwarded to Milledgeville but John McKenzie did not apply in time but when he did apply he was told that the money was sent back to the seat of government I presume you are not the proper person to drive that information from but as I had to write to you you will please enquire at the proper office and will find out if there is any money & how to proceed to get the same for his widow. 

Please answer this as soon as possible.

I am sir Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J.A.N. Murray
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Jackson Tennessee
14 Septemr [September] 1848

Mrs. Martha McKenzie

Madam, 
In reply to yours of 11 inst, now before me, I have to say that no instructions have been received here to pay the Class of Pensioners to whom you belong. -

Under the Act of 2 February 1848, extending pensions to Widows &c I presume you will have to make application to the Commissioners of Pensions at Washington City. What the form of that application must be I am not able to say, not being furnished with any by the Pension Office. You will have to make application to Commissioner of Pensions before your name can be placed in the Roll at this place. 

I remain 
Yours resply [respectfully]
J.W. Campbell Agent
By Jno Riddall
Page 55

Washington City
17 Nov 1848

Th the Commissioner
of Pensions - 

The accompanying vouchers are sent by Mrs. Martha McKenzie of Tennessee to obtain the being of the act of last session passed 2d Feby [February] 1848. Page 62

You will also perceive from the letter of her agent Mr Jones that she claims a re examination of her case under the Acts of 1838. 43 & 44 send results to one of you please. 

Very Respectfully,
Daniel Graham
Page 56

Washington May 16th 1851

Hon. Jas E Geath 
Comr. of Pensions } 

Sir

On the 15th April, as the Agent of Martha McKenzie widow of John, who was a Captain of Cavalry in the War of the Revolution. I filed a letter of authority from her, upon which I asked a re examination of the Claim, upon the ground that her husband services, as a Capt of Calvary for 2 years, would entitle his widow to the highest of Pension, instead of the Amt she now receives.

I now ask that a certificate may issue accordingly.

Very respectfully
Your Obt Svt 
R.W. Young
Page 57

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

This day appeared before Samuel Ingram one of the acting justices of the peace in and for the County for Carroll Col Edward Given Sinclair and made oath in due form of law and saith that he is well acquainted  with Col John McKenzie a citizen of the county of Carroll and state aforesaid that he knows of his own knowledge that the said John McKenzy served under General Green in the Southern army of the United States in the Revolutionary War this affiant states that he knew the sadi John McKenzy to have acted as one of the aids of General Green at the Battle of Guilford and also knows of his own knowledge that eh said John McKenzy  was detailed as an officer by General Green to attend to command and fight the enemy of the County at other posts sworn to and subscribed this 16th day of September 1832 
Saml [Samuel] Ingram [seal] 
Elpum
Page 58

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I Edward Gavin Clerk of the County of pleas and quarter sessions in your said county & state aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Ingram Esquire whose name is subscribed to the within affidavit is & was at the time of subscribing the same an acting justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and qualified as the law directs and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such. 

Given under my hand at office in Huntington this 23rd of September AD 1831

Edward Gavin Clerk
Page 59

The State of Mississippi 
Desoto County

I George Foote Clerk of the Probate Court of the County of Desoto in the State of Mississippi do hereby certify that David J. White whose name appears officially to the within declaration and certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected qualified and commissioned that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine and that all of his acts in the premises are and ought to be entitled to full faith and credit

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at office in Hernando Missi the 27th of October AD 1846 and the 71st year of American Independence

George Foote Clerk
Page 60

The State of Mississippi
DeSoto County

I David J. White do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Martha McKenzie of Carroll County Tennessee who is now on a visit to her daughters in DeSoto County state aforesaid who has this day appeared before me David J. White one of the acting justices for said County and made oath to the within declaration, that she a woman of truth and veracity and that full faith and credit is due and of right ought to be given to all her statements.

I further certify that from old age and bodily infirmity she is not able to attend attend at the court house of her county in order to make the declaration in open court without interest ongoing and fatigue. 

In testimony hereof I have put my hand and seal this 26th day of Octr AD 1846

David J. White [seal]
Justice of the Peace
DeSoto County, Mississippi
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D
Page 62

State of Tennessee 
Gibson County

On this 28th October 1846 personally appeared before me R.F. Kong an acting justice of the Peace in and for said county.

Jeremiah McKenzie a resident of said county aged fifty three years the sixth day of November Eighteen Hundred and forty six and makes oath in due form of law that he is the first child of Patsey McKenzie and of her late husband Capt John McKenzie of Carroll County Tennessee Dad who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, that agreeable to the entry upon the original family record which was kept by and in the hand writing of the said John McKenzie strong the date of this marriage and the birth of the children, that agreeable to the entry upon said record this affiant and born the sixth day of November [crossed out] in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three 1793. This affiant further states that his mother the said Patsey McKenzie did in the year 1843 or 1844 make application for a pension in write of her late husband decd which declaration and papers was forwarded to the department by this affiant and this affiant further states that he was formilure [familiar] with and has often examined said family record from his earliest recollection until some upwards of twenty years ago when said record was accidently destroyed by being burnt that previous to its being burnt this affiant coppied there from the date of his own birth as above stated and about that time married aged moved to himself, this affiant does not know when his father ever made out another record or not but recollects distinctly seeing his mother Patsey McKenzie have an old worked sample upon which she had the date of her marriage worked in with a needle which sample this affiant has frequently seen in his mothers profession from his earliest recollection and has often heard her say that she was at work on said sample at the time she was married to this affiants father John McKenzie and that the date of the marriage as given on said sample was in the year seventeen hundred and ninety two. 

This affiant further states that since the application of his mother the said Patsey McKenzie for a pension she has not intermarried but still remains the widow
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of the said John McKenzie Decd and is still a resident of Carroll County Tennessee. Tho she spends part of her time with some of her children in DeSoto County State of Mississippi where she is at this time on a visit altho she is old very infirm having to be hated to and from

Sworn to and subscribed before me the date above written Jeremiah H. McKenzie [seal]

Rufus F. King
Justice of the Peace
for Gibson County

State of Tennessee
Gibson County }

I Rufus F. King an acting justice of the peace in said for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jeremiah H. McKenzie who has this day appeared and made oath to the above affidavit before me that he is a man of truth and veracity and high respectively and standing and that full faith and credit is due and of with ought to be given to his statements in testimony where of I have unto set my hand and affix my seal this 23d day of October 1846.

Regus F. King [seal] 
Justice of the Peace
for Gibson County

State of Tennessee
Gibson County }

I Allen C. Nimmo Clerk of Gibson County Court do hereby certify that Rufus F. King whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit & certificate ans was at the date there an acting justice of the peace for said county duly commissioned and qualified - and full faith and credit is due to all of his official acts 

Witness my hand and seal of said court at office in Trenton this 23d day of October 1846 and 71st year of American independence

A.C. Nimmo Clerk
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Jackson  Tenn.    October 24, 1846

I am acquainted with Jeremiah H. McKenzie whose name is signed to the foregoing affidavit.  He is a man of standing and character and entitled to full credit as such.  I also with pleasure state that Capt. John McKenzie in his life time was a man of standing and character and my information has always been that his surviving widow is of the first respectability and in all respects entitled to full credit.

Milton Brown, M. C.
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Increase Martha McKenzie
Wid of John
Ten
Act 7 July 1838 put
resolution of 23 Jany 1845
and 1t July 1848

Admo 2 years Capt
$480 pm
pm 4 March 1836 
4 March 1841 deducting
what has been paid at the
rate of $200. per annum for
same year

Admo 43144
$480 per annum
per 4 March 1843 deducting
what has been paid
Adm 2 July 48

$480 
Daniel Graham Esq
Refreshed January
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

On this 30th day of October 1848. Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Mrs. Martha McKenzie resident of said county age seventy three years who in her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress past on the 2d day of February 1848 continuing the pensions of certain widows and also the benefit of the provisions of the 2d section of the Act of Congress past 26th June 1848. Making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensions that she is the widow of Captain John McKenzie decd who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum for services rendered during the war of the Revolution she further declares that she is the identical Martha McKenzie who drew a pension of two hundred dollars per year under the act of 7th July 1838 of 3d March 1843 and 17th June 1844 she further declares that since the death of her husband the said John McKenzie she has not intermarried but remains his widow that she makes this declaration in order to recover under the 2d Section of the Act of June 26th 1848 and the resolution of 1st July 1848 the difference between the two hundred dollars a year which was allowed to her and the four hundred and eighty dollars which was originally allowed to her husband per annum ebing two hundred & eighty dollars from the 4th March 1836 to 4th March 1841 under the act of July 1838 and from 4th March 1843 to 4th March 1844 under act of March 3d 1843 and from 4th March 1844 to 4th March 1848 under Act of 17th June 1844 and also to be allowed a pension of four hundred & eighty dollars per
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annum under the act of 2d February 1848 from 4th March 1848 during life which amount was originally allowed to her husband the said John McKenzie decd. 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the dae above written.

Martha McKenzie [seal and signature]

Col. McNeill.L.P.

State of Tennessee
Carrol County}

I Leonidas J. McNeill a justice of the peace in and for said county hereby certify that I am well acquainted  with Mrs. Martha McKenzie who has this day appeared and made oath to the above affidavit before me that she is a woman of truth and veracity that full faith and credit is due and of right ought to be given to her statements I further certify that she is the identical Martha McKenzie who drew a pension of two hundred dollars per annum under the act of Congress of 17th June 1844 in right of her deceased husband Captain John McKenzie and that she is still a widow given under my hand and seal this 30th day of October 1848

L.J. McNeill L.P.
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State of Tennessee } SS 
Carroll County 

I young W. Allen Clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that Lenidas J. McNeil Esqr whole name appears to the foregoing declaration & certificate is and was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county at the time of signing the same duly commissioned and qualified and his signature is genuine, as such full faith and is due and ought to be given to all of his official acts 46. 

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at office in the town of Huntigdon this 31st day of October AD 1848. 

J.W. Allen Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County } 

On this the 28th day of November 1846 personally appeared before me Needham Green one of the acting justices of the Peace in and for said county James M McKenzie is a resident of said county aged twenty seven years and makes oath in due form of law that he is the youngest son of his father John McKenzie and his mother Patsey McKenzie who is now the widow of the said John McKenzie deceased and who is now on a visit to her daughter's in Dissoto County Mississippi and who did make application for a pension in right of her husband sometime in the year 1843 or 1844. This affiant further states that the old worked sample which is hereto attached and which contains as this affiant had always understood the date of the marriage of his father and mother and which sample this affiant has seen and been acquainted with since his earliest recollection. This affiant also attaches here to ten old powers of attorney which his father John McKenzie seems to have made in gis lifetime in order to draw his pension which powers of attorney he finds among the old papers of his fathers since his. death being the administrator of his estate

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above 

Needham Green [seal]
James M. McKenzie [seal]

State of Tennessee Carroll County

I Needham Green acting justice of the peace in and for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with James M. McKenzie who has this day offered and made oath to the above affidavit before me that he is a men of truth and veracity and that dull faith and credit is due and of rite ought to be given to his statements
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I young W. Allen Clerk of the county and Court of said county do hereby certify that Needham Green whose name appears to the within affidavit and certificate and was an acting justice of the peace in and for said county at the time the same purports to bear date duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his are genuine. 

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and office the seal at office on the town of Huntingdon this 2nd day of November AD 1846

J.W. Allen Clerk

[illegible seal]
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Flemings Post Office Weakley County
Tennessee July the 14th 1844

Dear Sir same time during the year 1848. I made the best proof then in my power of my being the widow of Colonel John McKenzie deceased (who had been for many years, and was at the time of his death a pensioner he rew annually $480) with the exception of the testimony of Johnathon M. Gilbert who is named in the declaration, his affidavit was left blank owing to his not getting to the town of Huntingdon till after the court had adjourned, and it was thought by the man who had the management of the business that it would make no material difference, therefore the papers were sent on from Huntingdon without his testimony, not having heard anything, from Washington or the fate of my claim as the widow Colonel John McKenzie under an act of Congress giving pensions to the widows of Revolutionary War soldiers and officers got Dr. Winn to address a letter to the pension Agent making inquiries about my claim and he also not receiving an answer i again write you on the same subject making the same ongoing. If the papers have been received, examined, and disposed of, please let me know the results; if there is any object please send the claim back with papers of information that I may have the defect remedied and send back to you for if there is anything coming to me from the government, I want it for I am poor, need it. I am yours respectfully &c 

Martha McKenzie

To the Pension Agent
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Certificate of Camphall
for Capt John
McKenzie
Carroll County Tn
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Comptroller Genl's Office
Columbia So Ca.: November 26th 1846

 [to the left, in margins "The account from which this indent was isseud is lost"]

Book M 
Indent 159

Issued the 1st October 1784 to Mr. John McKenzie late Captain Supernumery in Hills Regt Sumter's Brigade S Troops for Ninety four
pounds sterling bring amount & pay & bounty due him for services in that troop together with interest theron from first April 1782 to date hereof agreeable to Resolution of General Assembly Eleventh march last

Print 294.00 Int. L6: 11: 7 D

I certify the above to be a true copy from the Records for Comptroller Genl. 

J Aug Black

Mr. Jones will see that the copy above has reference to the service of John McKenzie in Sumter's Brigade alone. His name nowhere appears on Records for duty under Genl. Lewis Major Parker or Capt Talbot in this office - In fact those officers do not appear from all I can collect from the Records in the office to have  belonged to teh So-Ca Line of Regulars or militia. I think it likely that they were of the Georgia & No. Carolina Line

Respectfully 
J. Aug. Black
Deputy
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[to the left, written in the margins "Matthew Brown"]

A.W. Crocket was very sanguine of success of the pention, but no information has been recd of it has failed I would like to know what was looking we will try again

J.H.M.
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Trenton, 23rd February 1844
Judge Milton Brown
Dear Sir

I claim your assistance at the in behalf of my mother, the widow of my father Col John McKenzie late of Carroll County decd the familly of which you are acquainted with. he was an old revolutionary officer and at his death was drawing a pention of forty dollars per month and in Sept or October last Brother John W. Crocket drew a declaration for my mother and the best proof she was enabled to make, as to the legality of the marage of my father & mother which took place in the year 1792. in the state of Georgia near when Party now is in Hancock County. but that county was not known at the date of her marage the county have been so subdivided since her marage we cannot precise the lives if they were were ever returned by the Justice of the Peace whose name my mother states whas Hunter, we have made out the best evidence the nature of the case admits of and which Crocket stated he thought would satisfy Sgt. Edwards on the subject, the records of the marage by my father & the ages of the children is the best we can produce on the subject. I mailed the declaration H at Huntingdon amediately [immediately], requested Sgt. Edwards on the development to write me the Isher, but we have recd no answer, as you are acquainted with the family & was with my father also, I would by thankfull you would personally talk to Sgt. Edwards and write to me amediately then old mother is ready, and as much entitled to her pentionunde the act granting pentions & half pay to certain widows, as you are to any property you hold I have no doubt. The act qas pasd the 7th day of June 1832. and was approved July 7th 1838 it has been so long since the marage all the old people nearly is dead Quat GIlbert, the mother of Sgt. John M. Gilbert & Robert Gilbert near my father old place in Carroll is the only one living that has any knowledge about it her evidence was taken and forwarded please inquire.
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Into it of the pention agent & write to me it may be her declaration was miscarried by some means and greatly oblige a ready widow as well as your

Humble Servant, 
J.H. McKenzie 

Judge Milton Brown

J.W. Crockett was very sanguine of success as the pention, but no information has been recd as it has faild I would like to know what was looking we will try again

J.H.M.
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J.L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Dept

Washington City

Ed Clemson
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Dear Sir

Carroll County Tenn. Dec 17th 1834

The bearer Ed. E.B. Clemson inthe transaction of some business for me with the Governor of Virginia may have occasion for copies of some of the papers on file in your office for the establishment of my pensions. I have to request that you will furnish him with such copies of said papers as he may require or the originals of such as you may not have occasion for or do not wish to remain on file yr office. 

Yours Respectfully his
Your Ob" the 
Jno McKenzie

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Dept

I such of my commissions as you may not wish to keep on file in your office and other papers I will tank you to hand to Col. Clemson. 

Jno McKenzie
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

Be it know that before me Nathan Williams a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared John McKenzie and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical John McKenzie named in an original certificate in his possession of which I certify the following is a true copy. 

War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United Staes of the 7th of June 1832 John McKenzie of the state of West Tennessee who was a captain in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive four hundred and eighty dollars and __ cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi annually and the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this twenty third day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. 

Lew Cass 
Secretary of War

Examined and 
Countersigned 
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

That he now resides in Carroll County and resided therein about nine years previously in the county of Maury in middle Tennessee

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of September 1839, 

Nathan Williams Justice of the Peace
Jno McKenzie

State of Tennessee
Carroll County 

I Nathan Williams a Justice of the Peace in the county above named do hereby certify that from my own knowledge and the oaths of Henry F.. Murray, James A.N. Murray that John McKenzie who has this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity is the identical person named in the pension certification which he had exhibited before me and bearing date at the War Office the 24rd fay of May 1833 and signed 

Lew Cas Secretary of War
Nathan Williams  Justice of the Peace
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I know all men by these presents that I John McKenzie of Carroll County of State of Tennessee pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint [illegible, faded out text] of the County of Maury and state of Tennessee, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in the town of Jackson state of Tennessee my pension from the 4th of March 1839 to the 4th of September 1839. 

Witness my hand and seal this day of September 1839. 

Harry F. Murray 
J.A.N. Murray 
Jno McKenzie

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

Be it knowing that on the 25th day of September 1839 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county aforesaid personally appeared John McKenzie  above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed & for testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above named. 

Nathan Williams Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee 
Carroll County

I George Hem Clerk of the Court of Carroll County certify that Nathan Williams as a magistrate as above that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affized my seal of office subscribed my name of this 25 day of Sept. 1839

George Hem Clerk of Carroll County, Clerk
By J.R. Smith Dept Clerk
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State of Tennessee
 Carroll County

Be it known that before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid appeared personally John McKenzie and and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical John McKenzie named in an original certificate in his possession, of which I certify that the following is a true copy.

" War Department Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832. John McKenzie of the State of West Tennessee who was a Captain in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive four hundred eighty dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year on.

Given at the War Office of the United States, ths twenty third day of May one thousand, eight hundred and thirty three. 

Lew Cass 
Secretary of War
Examined and countersigned 
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

That he now resides in Carroll County and has resided therein about eight years, previously in the County of Maury in middle Tennessee.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of October 1837
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I Justice of the peace in the County above named do hereby certify that from my own knowledge and the oaths of  that John McKenzie, who has this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity is the identical person named in the pension certificate which he has exhibited before me and bearing date at the War Office the 23rd day of May 1833. and signed
Lew Cass Secretary of War

Know all men by these presents that I John McKenzie of Carroll County, State of Tennessee, pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint of the county aforesaid, my true and lawful attorney for on and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in the town of Jackson State of Tennessee my pension from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of September 1837. 

Witness my hand and seal this attest day of October 1837.

State of Tennessee 
Carroll County

Be it known that on the __ day of September 1837 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared John McKenzie above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand this day and year last above mentioned
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

Be it known that on the __ day of September 1837 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared ____ the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension therein authorized to be received by him. 

Sworn to and subscribe the day and year last above mentioned. 

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I ___ Clerk of the County Court of said county or Carroll hereby certify that ___ is a magistrate as above; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this __ day of __ October 1837.
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Weakley County Tennessee
Near Winston

April 17th 1844 

Honored Sir, 
Some time in the Autumn of 1843 Mrs McKenzie widow of Colonel John McKenzie deceased, (who had been for a considerable long time a pensioner) made the necessary proof to entitle her to a pension at certain pay during life under an oath of Congress, all of which was sealed and directed to your office. it was mailed at Huntingdon, Carroll County, Tenn, she has not heard a word from it since it was mailed, she desires to know if her claim and proof was received at your office, and if it was what disposition was made of it, she feels great anxiety about it as she is very old and needy. The Colonel her husband during his life drew a pension of $480 per annum, he acted as aideddeccamp [aide-de-camp] to General Green at the Battle of Guildford in the revolutionary War, was a good officer & a brave soldier during that memorable contest for the receipt of this please give the information asked above and direct to any address at this place or to the old lady of Flemings Post Office in this county. Her Christian name is Patsey (Martha) 

Same Sir yours very respectfully, 
Samuel Winn M.D.

Honorable 
Pension Agent

Recd October 14, 1844
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State of Tennessee
Gibson County

On this the 16th day of November Eighteen Hundred and forty six personally appeared before me Rufus F. King one of the acting justices of the peace in and for said county Doctor Samuel Winn a resident of Weakley County Tenn. aged fifty one years and makes oath in due form of law that he was well acquainted with Captain John McKenzie and his wife Patsey McKenzie of Carroll County, Tennessee, that his first acquaintance with them was in the state of Georgia about thirty three or four years ago. That at that period the said John and Patsey McKenzie was living together as man and wife having several children. The oldest of which was Jeremiah H. McKenzie, that this affiant being well and intimately acquainted with sadi familly living a part of the time in the same house with them recollects that himself and the said Jeremiah H. McKenzie has frequently conversed together about their ages and always understood from the said Jeremiah and his father and mother the said John and Patsey McKenzie that the said Jeremiah H. McKenzie was some two years older than this affiant and further recollects to seeing and frequently examined whilst conversing about our ages the old familly record of the said John McKenzie and that the date of their first child the said Jeremiah H. McKenzie was in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three, and also recollects that the date of the marage of the said John & Patsey McKenzie was entered on said record which was in the year seventeen hundred and ninety two. This affiant further states that some where about the year eighteen hundred and eighteen whilst it was at the house of said John McKenzie he removed from the state of Georgia to Maury County Tennessee during the night whilst I was there a book or trunk by accident took fire which created considerable alarm this affiant understood at the time that there familly bible which contained said record with a number of other books & papers were burnt, and have frequently herd them speak of it since. This affiant further states that some time after this occurrence the said John McKenzie removed from Maury County to Carroll County Tennessee where he remained until he died which was some time in the year 1848. That previous to his death he was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars per month she believes. That since since his death his widow the said Martha has not intermarreid but still remains his widow
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and who is this affiant understands has made application for a pension in write of her said husband that he knows of no family he has been as interest with for the last thirty years as he has been with the said John McKenzie as who has raised a large family of Respectable children and he has no doubts upon a comparison of the age of the oldest child the said Jeremiah H. McKenzie with his own that the said Jeremiah must be fifty three years old

Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and date above written

R.F. King 
J.P. for Gibson County

Samuel Winn 

State of Tennessee
Gibson County

I Rufus F. King an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Dr. Samuel Winn who has this day appeared and made oath to the above affidavid before me that he is a man of intelligence and standing truth and veracity and that full faith and credit is due and of right ought to be given to his statements.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this 16th day of November 1846

R.F. King
J.P. for Gibson County

State of Tennessee
Gibson County

I Allen C. Nimmo Clerk of Gibson County Court hereby certify that R.F. King is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to tbe his are genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal office this 17th day of November 1846
A.C. Nimmo Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

12th Jany 1832

Personally came Capt. Benjamin Gilbert of Weakley County and State aforesaid & being duly sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he this Deponent was.at a genl muster in Carroll County in Campbell County in the state of Virginia sometime in the old Revolutionary Ware and then and thear saw Col John McKenzie whom I had no acquaintance with nor had ever saw him before I understood he was a recruiting office from the southand of the recruiting service and appeared Mary Kensey on that subject and was dressed in a military youniform and wore a sword  I recollect and bore the title of Capt there he met with some gentlemen of his acquaintance that was from Portsmouth or some place in that quarter where. Our Army lay and they agreed mete with grate satisfaction and had formaly ben in the Army together and report said that McKenzie bin in the service of his country most all the Revolutionary War I heard my brother Capt. McKenzie Gilbert say after the Battle of Guildford that he had  got badly wndf Capt McKenzie in that battle and that he had at badly [illegible] thear in the battle and lost his Negro boy and Portmanteau and all his close [cllothes] and horse laslost worth thousand dollars he said then & recollect
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when the war was over. This department removed to the state of Georgia and recd in the same county where Col McKenzie lived wom was a member to the Genl Assembly and acted in the Comission [commission] of the Peace and as Col of a ridgement of March and then a Judge of a county court and a man of Walth and of good property and of late it is said by his being seventy he has got nearly broke but the grate lengtht of time and not ever exported to be caled on and a bare whave I am in no wise interested has obliterated from my recollection a number surec oomtances [circumstances] that might be more permanent to the case and this Deponent further saith not sworn to before me the day and date above
Benjamin Gilbert
Edmund MGee JE

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

I Edward Given Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in & for said county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Edmond McGee whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned & qualified as the law directs and that full faith and credit due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such

Given under my hand at office in Huntingdon this 14th ady of January AD 1832. 

Edward Given Clerk
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9778
Martha McKenzie
Tenee
Act July 7th 38
C
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"

State of Tennessee
Carroll County

On the third day October in the year eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the worshipful County Court of said county and state in open court Martha McKenzie a resident of said county of Carroll aged sixty eight 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 pension made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half-pay and pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of John McKenzie, who was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. She states that her said husband the said John McKenzie was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Four hundred and eighty dollars per annum for some ten or eleven years before his death as well as her memory serves her and drew his pension at the Agency for paying pensions at Jackson in West Tennessee for several years before his death. For the evidence of her said husbands services and rank in the Army of the Revolution the company he commanded and the regiment brigade or troop to which he belonged, she respectfully refers to his declaration and the accompanying documents and proof in file in the War Department. She further declares that she was married to the said John McKenzie on the twentieth day of December seventeen hundred and ninety two, and that her husband the said John McKenzie  died on the fifth day of November eighteen hundred and forty two; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen
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hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. She further states that she has not been able to obtain any documentary evidence of the date or legality of her marriage. That she has sent to the Clerk of the County Court of Washington County in the state of Georgia for an authenticated copy of the marriage license by virtue of which she was married to the said John McKenzie but could not obtain it. She states that at the time of her marriage that part of Georgia was on the frontier and not many of the counties organized, and she supposes the record has been lost or destroyed. But she states positively that she was married  to the said John McKenzie at the time above stated by one Hunter an acting Justice of the Peace by authority of a license and according to the forms and ceremonies generally in use in that day. She further states that she knows of no person now living who was present at her marriage and by whom seh could prove it. She states that she only knows one person viz: Emily Gilbert who was in the neighborhood at the time and was at her in fact. She further declares that the family record kept by her said husband  containing the date of his own and her births and of their marriage and of the birth of their children in his own handwriting was destroyed by fire some twenty years ago or more but she remembers the date of her marriage with John McKenzie from a sample of her needle work which she worked the same year she was married and on which she worked  the date of her marriage, and this sample she still has. She further declares that she is still a widow - and has not been married since the death of her husband, the said John McKenzie.

Sworn to & subscribed on the day above written

Martha McKenzie
E.L. Woof 
G.W. Holliaday
John Scott

Presiding Justices of Carroll County Court
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County

On this third day of October eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the worshipful County Court of said County Jeremiah H. McKenzie a citizen of Gibson County in said state aged forty nine years, and Alexander A. McKenzie a citizen of said County of Gibson aged forty four years  who being first duly sworn in open court according to law depose and state that they are the sons of John McKenzie and Martha his wife who has this day appeared before said court and made the foregoing declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the pensions of the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled the act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. They further state that they have a distinct recollection of the family record to which she refers in her said declaration, and that it was in handwriting of their father, the said John McKenzie, and contained the record of his marriage with the said Martha on the twentieth day of December seventeen hundred and ninety two. and the said Alexander A. McKenzie further states that he was present when said family record was destroyed by fire in the county of Maury in said state twenty years ago or more - And the said Courty do certify that said Jeremiah H. and Alexander A. McKenzie are men of respectable standing and credible witnesses.
J.H. McKenzie
A.A. McKenzie

Sworn to and subscribed in open court on  the day & year above written

C.S. Woods C.P.
G.W. Holladay
John L. Scott

Presiding Justices of Carroll County Court
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State of Tennessee
Carroll County SS

On this third day of October eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the worshipful County Court of Carroll County in open Court Robert Gilbert a citizen of Weakly in said state aged forty eight years and J.M. Gilbert a citizen of said County of Weakly aged forty three years, both of whom are men of high standing and credible witnesses who being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that they have been acquainted with John McKenzie late of Carroll County Tennessee and Martha M McKenzie his widow who has this day appeared before said court and made the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows- That said John McKenzie was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum for about ten years before his death which occured on the fifth day of November eighteen hundred and forty two. They further state that they have been acquainted from character with the said John McKenzie and his said widow from their earliest recollection dispersonally some twelve to fifteen years that they have during their whole acquaintance with them, been reputed to be man and wife and have reared a highly respectable family of children among whom are Jeremiah H. and Alexander A. who have been sworn to and subscribed the foregoing deposition - that the said Martha McKenzie has always born and now sustains among her acquaintances the most unblemished character and they would believe her statement on oath as soon as that of any other person within the circle of their acquaintance - They further state that said Martha McKenzie is still a widow and has not been married since the death of her said husband, the said John MKenzie.
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The foregoing deposition of Robert Gilbert and J.M. Gilbert was sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year above written

R.R. Gilbert

C.S. Wood [signature] C.P.
G.W. Holladay [signature] 
John L. Scott [signature] 

State of Tennessee
Carroll County  SS

On this third day of October eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the worshipful County Court of said County in open court Emilly GIlbert a resident of the County of Weakley in said state aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she is the sister of John McKenzie late of the county of Carroll decd and that he had been for several years previous to his death, which took place on the fifth day of November eighteen hundred and forty two a pensioner of the United States at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum. That Martha McKenzie who has this day appeared before said court and made the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress of July 7th 1838 entitled, "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows" has been reputed to be his wife about since the twentieth day of December seventeen hundred and ninety two. She further states that she was at the house of the said John McKenzie  her brother at the time of his reputed marriage with the said Martha and at his request superintended the arrangements for the en fiar which took place on about the twenty-first of December seventeen hundred and ninety two and this circumstance prevented her from being at the wedding, but she states that her
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brother, the said John McKenzie brought the said Martha home with him on the day after their reputed marriage and introduced her as his bride - there were several persons at the afair who professed to have been at the wedding, and she had never heard the fact or validity of their marriage denied from that day to this; and she further states that notwithstanding she did not witness the marriage of the said John McKenzie with the said Martha, from all the circumstances she as fully believes they were lawfully married at the time aforesaid as if she had seen it. She further states that they have lived together as man and wife from the date of their reputed marriage  until his death, and that they reared a large respectable family of children. 

Emilly Gilbert

Sworn ot and subscribed in open court the day and year above written 

C.S. Woods
G.W. Holloday
John L. Scott
Presiding Justices of Carroll County Court

State of Tennessee
Carroll County
SS

I Young W. Allen Clerk of the County County Court of said County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court upon the application of Mrs. Martha McKenzie for a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress of July 7th 1838. That Citizen S. Woods Geo W. Holloday & John L Scott whose official signatures appear to the foregoing declaration and depositions are presiding Justices of said Court, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony where of I hereunto set my hand and affix
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the seal of said court at Office in Huntingdon this third day of October AD 1848

J.W. Allen Clerk
of the County Court of Sd County
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Humboldt, Tenn.
April 16, 1924.

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Please send me a copy - John McKenzie of Virginia Revolutionary War Record.  See File 1049.

Yours Truly
G. S. Lannom

U.S. PENSION OFFICE
E
APR 18 1924
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McKenzie, Tennessee
July 19th 188.

Hon. Com. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Dear Sir: 

Will you please examine your pension records of Revolutionary soldiers and give me date as near as possible. When the pension of Martha McKenzie widow of John MKenzie of Tenn. ceased. Mrs Martha McKeznie died about Oct or Nov 1850. The exact date of her death is a very important matter to me. 

Kindly furnish 
me the information as soon as possible. I am greatly in need
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of it 

Very Respectfully
Mrs, Willie McKenzie
MKenzie
Carrol Co,
Tennessee

[black stamp that reads "PENSION OFFICE JULY 23 1888"]
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CENTRAL LUMBER COMPANY 
DEALERS IN 
LONG LEAF YELLOW PINE LUMBER
BOTH TELEPHONES 909 

ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION
520 EAST COLLEGE STREET

JACKSON, TENN. June 20/10

Commissioner of Pensions
 Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:- 

I am asking information in regard to the military services of John McKenzie of Revolutionary Army, for the purpose of joining the D.A.R. 

I have been told he drew a pension his life time, and at his death, his wife, Martha McKenzie drew one until her death. Can you give me information i n regard to his birth, marriage or death, or for what services he drew a pension, and was he Colonial Army in the war of 1776?

Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to give, I am

Very sincerely,
Mrs. John Foite, Jackson Tenn 
462 College St
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OFFICE OF
B.F. Willard
Attorney at Law
And SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY

Murfreesboro, Tenn. Nov. 11 1885

Gen. Block Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir, 

I want to ascertain the dates of the death of John McKenzie and of his widow Martha McKenzie. John McKenzie was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and died about or near the year 1840 in Carroll County Tennessee and probably belonged to the Georgia volunteer or troops his widow Martha died sometime between 1850 and 1855 in Carroll County Tennessee and was on the Pension Roll.

If their names are not on the Pension Rolls of those dates for the Revolutionary War, they are on the rolls for the soldiers of the War of 1812, but i have been informed that he was in the Revolutionary War, I would be pleased to have a certified statement of the dates of their respective deaths, as they appear on the Pension Rolls, at as early day as possible

I have the honor to be your obedient servant,
B.F. Lillard
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Rev. Sea. M. 

Memphis, Tenn. 
1791 Peabody Ave
April 9, 1919

Agent of Pension Bureau,
Washington D.C.

[black stamp that reads "U.S. PENSION OFFICE APR 18 1919"] 

Dear Sir:- 
In tracing my lineage I learned that one of my ancestors, Capt. John McKenzie received a pension from the U.S. government for services rendered
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dered in the Revolutionary War.  I am informed by the registrar that a copy of this pension must be filed before I can secure a membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Can you supply me with necessary papers?  If not, please advise me in regard
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to the matter.

yours truly,
Miss Louise Seates
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Rev Son as

Jackson-Madison Chapter
Jackson, Tenn. 
March 15th 1922

Pension Bureau
Dept of Interior
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:-

Will you please send me a copy of certificate showing Capt John McKenzie applied for pension 1833 and that his widow applied for Pension and her claim was allowed. See Wid File 1049. Carroll Co. Tennessee

Thanking you in advance.

Respectfully,
Miss Mary E. Timberlake

601 E Main St
Jackson, Tennessee
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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
WASHINGTON

March 13, 1924.

IN REPLY REFER TO QM 293 A-C
McKenzie, John

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

In order that a headstone may be provided for the grave of the decedent appearing below. The Quartermaster General requests that the correct military service and the spelling of the name be supplied from the records of the Pension Bureau:

Captain John McKenzie,
Light Artillery in 1781
under Col. Wm. Hill S. C.
Discharged 1782.
Applied for pension March 13, 1833.
Widow's File 1049.
Died: November 5, 1842

Very truly yours,
R L Foster
R. L. FOSTER,
Assistant.

U. S. PENSION OFFICE
E
MAR 15 1924
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March 13, 1924.

QM 293 A-C
McKenzie, John

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

In order that a headstone may be provided for the grave of the decedent appearing below. The Quartermaster General requests that the correct military service and the spelling of the name be supplied from the records of the Pension Bureau:

Captain John McKenzie,
Light Artillery in 1781
under Col. Wm. Hill S. C.
Discharged 1782.
Applied for pension March 13, 1833.
Widow's File 1049.
Died: November 5, 1842

Very truly yours,

R. L. FOSTER,
Assistant.

U. S. PENSION OFFICE
E
MAR 15 1924
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Old War Div. 
Ins. Ex'r. 
No. 
Co. 
Regt. 

Department of the Interior 
PENSION OFFICE

Return this letter with your reply. 

Washington, D.C. 
November 21st, 1885

Sir, 

Yours of the 11th Inst is received requesting a certified statement of the death of John McKenzie and his widow Martha both formerly living in Carroll County, Tenn., who it is supposed, received pensions on account of his services in the war of the Revolution. An examination of the records of this office show that applications for pension wer e received from a Revolutionary soldier and his widow while living in Carroll County, Tenn who bore the  above names, but the soldier does not state taht he belonged to the Georgia troops, although after the war he resided in that state. 

If it is desired to use the certified statement of their death in litigations or in a case in a court, the request for the same should be made by the Clerk of the Court, but if it is not to be used, you will please state your objection obtaining it, and if you are not a descendant of the soldier, proper authority from those that are descendants, specifying their relationship should be filed. There is an authenticated statement of the pensioner John McKenzie [crossed out "decease"], but not of his widow, perhaps, the certified statement could be obtained, on application to the Third Auditor, who is the custodian of the of the vouchers on which payment are made to pensioner -

Very Respectfully,
B.F. Lillard Esq
Attorney
Murfreesboro
Tenn 

Commissioner
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In reply to your request of ____, received ___ for a statement of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application ofr pension on file in this Bureau. 

MS. File 1049

[typed table with handwritten responses]

[DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE. ] 

 1776 | 1 year | Captain | Issuing Commissary | Major Parker | Va. 

1777 or 1778 | 2 years | Captain | - | Col. Thomas Sumter | S.C. 

- | - | Captain | - | - | -

- | - | Captain | Contractor for Salisbury Dist. | Gen. Davidson | N.C.

| - | - | aid de camp | Genl Nathl Greene in battle of Guilford | - | -|

1781 | - | Captain of Light Dragoons | - | Col Wm Hill | S.C.

[illegible] | [illegible] | Captain | - | Malmedy | N.C. 

1781 and was discharged in 1782 

1791 to 1795 | on guard duty against Creek Indians

Battles engaged in Rocky Mt Hanging Rock,Camden, Rugeley Malls, Ironworks, Torrence's Tavern, Guilford, New Market, Beatties Ford, Orangeburg

Residence of soldier at enlistment Halifax Co, Va. 

Date of application for pension March 13,1833 his claims allows

Residence at date of application Carroll County, Tenn. 

Age at date of application b. Sept 17, 1757 in Albemarle Co, Va; He m. in Washington Co., Va. Dec 20 1792

Remarks: Martha (Patsey) Bonner b. Jany 8, 1775; he died Nov. 8, 1842 in Carroll Co, Tenn., where she resided when she applied for pensions Oct 3. 1843. Her claim was alld [allowed]. Pensioner were alive in 1843 Alexander A. 44 yrs of age & Jeremiah H. who was bo. Nov 6, 1793

Sol Capt Mm McKenzie

Very respectfully,
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AWS

Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section

March 21, 1924. 

R.L. Foster, Assistant, 
Office of the Q.M. General, 
Washington, D.C.

Sir; 
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 1049, it appears that John McKenzie was born September 17, 1757, in Albemarle County, Virginia. 

While residing in Halifax County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1776 and served as a Captain in the Virginia, North and South Carolina Troops until 1782. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 13,1833, while a resident of Carroll County, Tennessee, and died there November 5, 1842. 

Respectfully, 

Commissioner.