Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6956, Francis Day, Ga N.C.
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE 
Ga
N.C.

NUMBER
W. 6956

Day, Francis
Jane

CONTENTS
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4613
North Carolina
Jane Day
widow of Francis who served in the Revolutionary  war, as a Private

GA & Nlina

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 30 Dollars [BLANK] Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Mch 1849 and sent to James Huske 
Fayetteville
N.C

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 207 Vol. 1.
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8829
Jane Day
N. Carolina
Act of 7th July 38
Aomd
9 mo pri
30$

Declaration
Jane Day

C H Jordan
Roxboro
PersonCo [County]
N. C.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows,
State of North Carolina
Person County
On this 6th day of March Eighteen hundred and forty three personally appered before
me Clement H. Jordan a justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Jane Day a resident of said County aged Seventy 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 provisions of the act of Congress passed the 7th day of July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Francis Day late of this County who was a revolutionary soldier; that he the said Francis Day belonged to a Volunteer ridgerment [regiment] formed in Granville which was commanded by Col Archibald Leighth [Lytle]. That said ridgerment [regiment] met at Granville Court-house now the town of Oxford in said County in this state that she is not certain who his Captain was - She belives this enlistment was for six months: that her said husband marched from Oxford to Hillsborough from thence to Greensborough of Guilford Court-house, from thence to
Salisbury and thence to Meclenburg Court-house all in this state where they remained but a short time and were thence marched into South Carolina - She further states that he served an other tour in the State of Georgia as
she now believes under Col Thos Farmer who was an own Cousin of hers, she is not certain as to the length of this tour but is confident it could not have been less than three months and might have been six. She is of opinion one of these tours was served in 1778 and the 
other in 1780 or 1781, but of the date she cannot be certain having no record of them.
She further declares that she was married to the said Francis
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Day by John Womack Esq in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty Seven and that he the said Francis Day died on the 20 day Th of February in the year Eighteen hundred and Sixteen, that he [she] was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1796 to wit at the time above stated.  She further states upon her oath that her husband never received any pension in his life time.
Sworn to and subscribed day and date above written in presence of 
Jane Day her X mark
C. H. Jordan J.P.
State of North Carolina
Person County
 I certify that I am acquainted with Jane Day the above declarant and she is respectable
and to be believed upon oath. Given under my hand this 6 day of March 1843.
C.H. Jordan J. P.
I further certify that from bodily infirmity she is unable to attend North Carolina Court Person County 
C.H. Jordan J.P
On this 25th day of March Eighteen hundred
and forty three personally appeared before
me Clement H. Jordan a justice of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions in and for said County John Bumpass one of the justices
of the peace in and for said County and a resident of the same aged 75 years and John Hicks also a resident of the County
aforesaid aged 67 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon their oaths state that they both knew Francis Day and Jane Farmer before they were married and after they were married, that they knew them as man and wife for fifty years or upwards and that notwithstanding no record can be found of their marriage they have no hesitation in
saying they were legally married for they were too respectable to have lived together in any other way 
Sworn to and subscribed day and date as above, before,
C.H. Jordan JP 
John Bumpass 
John Hicks

I certify that I am well aquainted with both the above deponants and that they are respectable and be believed upon oath
C H Jordan JP
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State of North Carolina Person County
I Charles Mason Clerk of Person County Court of Pleas and Qarter Sessions, hereby certify
that C.H. Jordan Esqr whose signature appear to the foregoing Declaration and Deposition is a Magistrate as above and the foregoing Signatures purporting to be his are genuine. And I further certify that there is in manner of doubt, but Francis Day and Jane Farmer were legally, married, and that Francis Day was a soldier of the Revolution.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
my State of Office and subscribed my name
office in Rosboro. March 25th [1843 - ILLEGIBLE]
Charles Mason Clerk
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No 8829
Jane Day
N. Car
Suspended
Let to C. H. Jordon May 17. '43.
" " " " " July 14 " [1743]
" " " " " " 26 " [1743]
the Act 7 July 1832
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6956
Jane Day
Wid
Francis Day
Pri Rev. War
Act: Feby 2 [ILLEGIBLE] #8
Index: -- Vol. A [or H], Page 167
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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North Carolina 34'15
Jane Day widow of Francis Day who was a Private in the Georgia & N. Carolina line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Thirty Dollars [ZERO] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the Eighth day of December 1843 and sent to C.H. Jordon Rosboro
N. Carolina 
Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 200
Set to the Agt, 10 June 18
Reported
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Roxboro NC
[Mon 97?]
Free
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
War Department
Washington City D.C

8829
[ILLEGIBLE] 1843
NC
July 7 1838
Jane Day
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Roxboro Person County N.C.
25 March 1843
Dear Sir
Owing to the division of the County after the marriage of Francis Day and Jane Farmer the present Declarant (Jane Day) the marriage bond was no doubt lost, and from the fact of both being entirely literate they had no family record. You will please inform me as soon as possible what disposition you make of them
Yrs respectfully
C.H. Jordan
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S. R. Ellington
Black walnut
P. Office
Harain Va
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State of Virginia
Halifax County Towit: On this 19th day of January one thousand Eight hundred and forty three, appeared before me William L Owen a
Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, John Fitts, a Revolutionary pensioner, aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn [FIRST PART OF WORD ILLIGIBLE]ing to law doth upon his oath say that, he was acquainted with Francis Day, late of Person County North Carolina, who was a soldier of the Revolution that he knows that the said Day was in that service. That he saw him in service in the army both
before and after the battle of Guilford. That he does not know the length of time that he served, but is of opinion that he served a
nine months tour. He is also of opinion that he served under Capt William Gill as they lived near each other and as he knew them to be very intimate
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written
Wml Owen JP
John x his mark Fitts

State of Virginia
Halifax County Towit:
I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with
the above Deponent, John Fitts, and that he is believed to be a man of respectable standing and is entitled to faith and credit when upon oath.
Wml Owen JP
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State of Virginia
I William Holt Clerk of Halifax County Court do
certify that William L Owen is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned
and Sworn and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his genuine.
In testimony whereof: I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and Subscribed my name this 26th day of January 1843
W. Holt Clk
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State of North Carolina Person County
On this the 27th day of February Eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me Clement H. Jordan a justice of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County above named John Wilkerson
revolutionary pensioner aged Eighty two years a resident of said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath state that he was acquainted with Francis Day late of this County who was a revolutionary soldier that he the said Day belonged to the same Regiment to which the said Wilkerson belonged  he states that he is of opinion that he enlisted as he himself did believing that the tour was to last but five months but says they were out six months; they were commanded by Col Archibald Leightle [Lytle] and formed 
a part of the volunteer ridgement [regiment] made up at Granville Court house in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight. From Granville Court house they marched to Hillsborough from thence to Guilford Court house and from thence to Salisbury and to Mecklenburg Court
house where they were stationed a short time; they were then marched on to South Carolina and stationed at the Ten Mile House, which is ten miles on this side of Charleston, here they remained some two or three weeks and were then marched to Purrysburg on Savannah river
in consequence of receiving information that the British had reached Savannah in the State of Georgia 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above written in presence of C. H. Jordon J.P
John his X mark Wilkerson

Person County N. Carolina 
This is to certify that I am acquainted with 
John Wilkerson the above deponent and that he is respectable and to be believed upon oath. 
This 27 Feby 1843 C H. Jordan J P.
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State of North Carolina Person County 
 I Charles Mason Clerk of Person County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, hereby 
Certify that C.H. Jordan Esq. whose signatures appear to the foregoing Declaration and certificate is a Magistrate as above duly commissioned and qualified, therefore full faith
and credit should be given all of his Official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my
Seal of Office and subscribed my name at Office
the 3rd day of March 1843.

Charles Mason Clerk
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Deposition of John Wilkerson - for F Day
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3451
Jane Day
30$
3475
Nov 
C H Jordan
Roxboro NC
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838.
State of North Carolina Person County

On this Twenty Eighth day of August 1823
personally appeared before the subscriber one of the justices of the peace for said County, Jane Day a resident of Person, State of N. Carolina in the County of aged Seventy Eight years, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war, that she is the
widow of Frances Day who was a Private in the war of the revolution. And that she received Thirty dollars per annum under the act of July 7th 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow of Francis Day. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before C. H. Jordan J P. Person County
State of N. Carolina 
Jane her mark Day
I certify that I am well acquainted with Jane Day the above deponant. That she is the widow of Francis Day decd, that she received Thirty dollars per annum under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838. And that she is respectable and entitled to credit upon oath. Given under my hand this 28 day of August
1843.
C.H. Jordan J.P.
Person County North Carolina
I Charles Mason Clerk of the Court of Pleas &
Quarter sessions in and for the County above named certify that C.H. Jordan is a justice of the peace for this County duly commissioned and qualified and that all his act and deeds
as such are entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony
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whereof I have hereunto affixed seal of my office. At on the 28 day of August 1843
 
Charles Mason Clk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848 Entitled, "An Act making further provisions for surviving widows of soldiers of the Revolution"
State of North Carolina
Person County
On this the 15th day of March 1849, personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Justice
of the Peace, in and for said County, Jane Day, a resident of Person County Aged 83 years ??who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision, made by Act of Congress passed on 6 Feby 1848, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the Widow of Francis Day, who was Private and that she received a pension of Thirty dollars per Annum under the Act 17th June 1844, She further declares that she is still a Widow Sworn & Subscribed on the day & year when written,
before me
T. J. Farrar J Peace
Witness Jane Day
her x Mark
Seal
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I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the identical person as represented by her, in the annexed declaration
J.P. Farrar J.P. Seal
State of North Carolina Person County

I Charles Mason Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Person County Certify that T. J. Farrar is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, are genuine. 
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto R affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name the 15th day of March 1849.
Charles Mason
Clerk of Court of Person County
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Proof of
Jane Day's Marriage
Addl proof
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State of North Carolina
Person County
On this 20th day of May Eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Augustin Vanhook one of the justices of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions in and
for the County aforesaid Ann Hawkins aged seventy four years a resident of said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath state that she is acquainted with Jane Day widow of Frances
day that she was present at the time and saw the said Francis Day married to the said Jane Day then Jane Farmer by John Womack Esq who was then a magistrate in this County. The precise time of the marriage she does not
recollect but says it was some two or three years before she was married herself and must have consequently been from fifty to fifty five years ago.
Ann her X mark Hawkins
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above written before
A Vanhook J.P

State of North Carolina
Person County
I certify that I am acquainted with Ann Hawkins the above deponant [deponent] and that she is respectable and to be believed upon oath
Given under my hand this 21 day of July 1843
A. VanHook
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I Charles Mason Clerk of the Court of the pleas and quarter sessions for Person County, certify that A. Vanhook is a magistrate as above,
and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In testimony to hereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office, and subscribed my name this 20th day of May in the year 1843.
Charles Mason Clerk of the Court of Person County
State of North Carolina
Person County 
I Charles Mason Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Person County, certify that A Van Hook whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate is a Magistrate in and for said County, and the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine, and I further certify that Frances Day Recognizes Jane Day as his widow in his will as appears of record in my Office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
Seal of Office, and subscribed my mark of office
July 24th 1843
Charles Mason Clerk
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1533
North Carolina
Jane Day widow of Francis Day 
[who was pensioner under the Act of [sentence struck out]]
and who died on the 20th Feb. 1816 of Person [County] in the State of N. Carolina who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [BLANK] of the [cutoff by scanning] Regt commanded by Col Farmer in the Georgia [ILLEGIBLE] line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 30 Dollars [no] cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of 
August, 1843 and sent to C. H Jordan, Roxboro. Person Co N.C.
Whole amount due $150.
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thomas [Chumpthis?], Clerk
Book A Vol. 2. Page 186

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10
[ILLEGIBLE] 3 '16
[Mr Evans?]
James L Edward Esque
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Pension Office
Fayetteville  June 9 1846
James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
[ILLEGIBLE]
Please direct the payment of Jane Day for [ILLEGIBLE][ILLEGIBLE] Act of 1844. 12 Mo. 30
[ILLEGIBLE] respectfully
[ILLEGIBLE] [ILLEGIBLE]
[ILLEGIBLE]
[ILLEGIBLE]
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FREE
[Postage stamp] Fayetteville N.C. Mar 21
James L. Edwards Esq
Pension Agent
Washington City
D. C.
important
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Fayetteville March 20 1849
James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
been in
[ILLEGIBLE] you Enclosed, Mrs Jane Days, 
Declaration, for which you will send me,
a "Certificate", with as little delay as practical,
[ILLEGIBLE], some time in September,
caused to be Executed [ILLEGIBLE] Certificates.  to obtain Old Daniel McSellars a Certificate,
in lieu of one lost - I have known the old man
for several years. I have for him his pension,
he called a few days since to know how 
the matter stood, would you be good enough 
to look up these papers, & send the old
man's certificate to me-- He is very needy
& it would be a real act, of kindness to
be [ILLEGIBLE] in this matter-- Great Complaints are made all over the state, about the Pension Department at Washington City & not without Some cause
Yours respectfully
James [ILLEGIBLE]
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Free
Roseboro, NC
Aug 29
J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington City
D.C.

3451  
Sept 4 1843
Jane Day
March 3 /43
NC
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Roxboro Person Co. N.C.
28th Aug 1863
Dr Sir
When you grant a certificate for this pension you may direct to John Day (her son) at this place.
Yrs respectfully
C. H. Jordan

What have you done with the cases of Ann Wade, Sarah Steward and Catharine Brown and Margaret Mitchel?
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Roxboro N.C. 
22 July 1863

Dr Dir
I have had the paper of Jane Day and Margaret Mitchel attested according to your directions and return them with as little delay as possible.

Jane Days marriage never can be established by any documentary or record proof but I think there is proof enough before the department to satisfy any man or any jury of twelve men that they were legally married.
Turn your attention again to the depositions of John Bumpass (a justice of the peace) and John Hicks an old a respectable citizen of our county, to the deposition of Ann Hawkins swearing that she saw them married to the present and former certificates of Charles Mason our county court clerk and to the certificate of Abisha Slade clerk of the county court of Caswell and if they do not satisfy your mind in relation to the marriage I despair of ever doing it. The services of Francis Day as I remarked in my letter of yesterday are proven by the deposition of John Fitts and John Wilkerson beyond a doubt. There can be no doubt but the allusion made by John Fitts to seeing him (Fr Day) in Savannah Ga. was during the three months service which he rendered under Col Thos (Thomas) Farmer (an own cousin of Jane Day) whose rigiment (regiment) it is known went to Georgia.
The marriage of Margaret Mitchel I expect can be further established. The services of James Mitchel can be further cleared up in this way if it will avail any thing. John Dickson will say that George Duncan a former pensioner now dead, who served in Col Leightle's Corps with James Mitchel always blamed Mitchel for getting too drunk on the day his own papers were acted upon by the court to attend to his (Mitchel's) and often said if he had have acted differently he might have obtained a pension.
Yrs respectfully
C. H. Jordan
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Roxboro NC
July 5
Free
J.S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City D.C.
Jane Day's
July 10 '43 NC
Jane Day
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Roxboro Person Co. N.C.
4th July 1863
Dear Sir
Your containing instructions in relation to the claim of Jane Day was duly received. I have made three applications to the clerk of Caswell Co for a certificate that there was no record in his office of the marriage of Francis Day and Jane Farmer (the present Jane Day) and he has been so remiss in duty that I have not been able to procure it. I know however that here is no such record there for I made a close examination twice last winter for the marriage bond but could find none. I applyed (applied) to secr.y (secretary) of state through a friend to know if the name of Francis Day was on his rolls and he informed me he had none but the names of the regulars.
I think you ought to be satisfied with the proof of (?) Days services for John Fitts of Halifax Co Va. swears that he was well acquainted with Francis Day and that he served nine months which includes the three months spoken of by Jane Day in her declaration under Col. Farmer. John Wilkerson swears that he served, in company with himself, a tour of six months under Col. Leightle or Lytle. Both of these depositions are from respectable men. You will find the deposition of Anny Hawkins in the last papers forwarded from this office swearing that she was present and saw Francis Day married to Jane Farmer the present declarant. With all this proof I think there cannot be the shadow of a doubt, but that the claim is a valid one, and one that ought to be allowed.
The papers of Ann Wade were returned about two months ago, with the approval of the court as you directed, the proof of the length of service I have been unable to obtain though I have made diligent serch (search). Judge Saunders informed me his (Robt Wade's) name was to be found on the rolls in the war department at Washington. I have also learned that it was on the rolls at Richmond and I have written to the secretary of the commonwealth for a certificate but he like the clerk of Caswell has failed to furnish any. Every man here that knew Ro Wade is satisfied that he enlisted for the whole war and served three or
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four years in fact I have a deposition to this effect which will accompany this communication.  The widow is willing to compromise at two years rather than wholly miss what she considers herself so 
justly entitled to - She is poor and much afflicted and if you can do any thing the sooner the better for her.
Please inform me soon what disposition you make of her case and also the others that were sent on with it.
A case accompanys [accompanies] this which stands upon the same footing of Jane Day's it is the case of Sarah Steward - You need
not be surprised that [ILLEGIBLE OR SCRATCHED OUT - documentary?] evidence of marriage should be so hard to procure if you knew as well as I do now loosly [loosely]it was conducted in old times. Magistrates used to keep blank licences [licenses], take the usual bond -  marry the couple and after neglect entirely to return the bond to the office. I doubt very much if one man in ten married about the times that Francis Day and Thos [Thomas] Steward were by a magistrate, could now prove that marriage by [documentary] testimony.
Yrs respectfully
C. H. Jordan
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Roxboro NC Free
July 21
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
July 25 1863
N.C.
Jane Day
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Roxboro N.C. 21st July 1863
Sir
Yours of the 16th July is at hand and the requirements complyed (complied) with. Your Day is Jane Day's case. "If the date of the marriage should be established with the requisite certainty no proof of service has adduced." I would respectfully ask what you call the deposition of John Fitts and John Wilkerson appended to that declaration? John Fitts lived in an other state and his deposition was take by an officer wo could not by any fair rule of construction be said to "unite in himself the powers of a judicial officer and the interests of any attorney in the case." John Wilkerson would not swerve an inch from the truth for any man even though he might "unite in himself the the powers of a judicial officer and the interests of an attorney in the case." so date of marriage can be established. The deposition of John Dickson has been read again in the presence of an other magistrate, in his hearing he swore to it by one "who may not unite in himself the powers of a judicial officer with the interests of an attorney in the case" Col. Leightle or Lytle commanded a volunteer corps raised at Oxford (Granville ?) a number of whose soldiers have been pensioned by the department among whom are Ephraim Hawkins and John Wilkerson, as I am informed. These facts apply as well to the case of Jane Mitchel husband of Margaret Mitchel as to Francis Day.
It is probable that improper terms may have been sometimes used in endeavoring to specify the particular service rendered I am no military man and profess to know but little of the terms. Margaret Mitchel's case I expect will have to rest solely upon the facts set fourth (forth) in her declaration before the court, partially supported by the testimony of John Dickson as it is.
I know nothing of the services of Rich.d  (Richard) Peede, it is probable that the young man who wrote the declaration may have applied improper term in relation to the character of the service rendered.
The testimony in the case of Jane Day is infinitely better, I think and fully as good as that of Mrs. Elizabeth Hobson in the testimony of Margaret Mitchel's case. Mrs Hobson's pension was obtained last year by Judge Saunders.
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John Halliburton's Case will be submitted to our next County Court for its approval, (in Sept.) There is now no living evidence of the
service, his brother Thos [Thomas ]Halliburton having died since his deposition was taken. Had I have known that you would have asked
for more proof of the service of Francis Day I would have taken the deposition of Thos Halliburton at the time it was taken in the case of his brother, but I thought it unnecessary as it would have established the same facts that were established by the depositions of Fitts and Wilkerson. Thos Halliburton served one
or two tours but never would have a pension
I will use all due diligence to have the evidence in Ann Wades case procured, but, I think it impossible-- I learn from some of the family that it so hardly probable that Ro Wade,s [Wade's} name can be found on the Continental Rolls from the fact that he
was off in S.C. on a recruiting expedition when the war closed.
Yrs respectfully
C. H. Jordan
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State of North Carolina
Caswell County 
I Abisha Slade Clerk of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid hereby certify that I have made diligent search in my office for a record of the marriage of Francis Day and Jane Farmer and am unable find any
Such record. I also further certify that Magistrates
In some Instances failed to [address] the marriage bonds to the Office and that it is in this may there is some times no record of Marriage
[SEAL TO LEFT OF BELOW TEXT]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my office seal at office this 28 day June 1843
A. State Clk
of Caswell County Court