Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10,358, John Atkinson, N.C.
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[form number]
(8-1776)

Atkinson, John
Elizabeth

SERVICE:  N. C. 

NUMBER:  W. 10358

CONTENTS:  [blank]

[stamped]
This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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7619.

Alabama

Elizabeth Atkinson, deceased

widow of John Atkinson,
who was a Corporal
in the N. Carolina line.
________________________________________ 
inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
88 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843. [illegible name]
on 19th July, 1845, the day she died
_________________________________________

Certificate of Pension issued the 
16 day of March, 1846
and sent to W. J. Dabney

Albany, Kentucky
__________________________________________

[Act of March 3, 1843]
and 17 June, 1844

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2     Page 230.

Rec'd:  to apt
March 18, 1846
Attn:  Hn. A. Cullum H.R. 
April 11, 1846
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NO. 12038

Elizabeth Atkinson
Mdn. of John
Ala.
Act. 7 July 1838

[illegible]

Mdn dead 19 July 1845

[illegible]
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State of Kentucky
Wayne County}

On this the [blank] day of October 1839 personally appeared 
before me Benjamin Handcock a justice of the peace in and for 
the county aforesaid.
Joseph Atkinson with whom I am well acquainted and whose 
statements are certified to full credit and after being duly sworn 
for that purpose doth his oath make the following affidavit to wit 
That he is the oldest son of John Atkinson, deceased, and Elizabeth 
Atkinson - affiant states that his father moved from Person County, 
North Carolina to Wayne County, Kentucky and died about twenty 
eight years past in Wayne County, Ky, - affiant states that he always 
heard his father say he served six or seven years in the Revolutionary 
War and of serving under Col. Lytle, or General Lytle and of serving 
as a light horseman and of times he and his uncle John Hall, who 
was a pensioner of Wayne County Ky, speak of his father John 
Atkinson serving through most of the Revolutionary War.  Also 
Philip Hall and William Hall speak frequently of the service.
Affiant states that he is now from the [illegible] of his mother 
forty nine years of ago.
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and that his three sisters older than himself; Nancy 
Bridgefarmer, Patty Breshean and Lucy Shope are 
all older that himself - affiant states that at a time 
when he was quite small and was plowing in the 
field in Person County, North Carolina there came to 
his father's house three men by the names of John 
Darly, William Lethers and William A. James and got 
from his father two discharges to obtain land for him 
but those men never returned nor gave an account 
of the [illegible] - affiants for this moved to Kentucky 
where he died about 28 years past - affiant and his 
brother Richard Atkinson both moved to West Tenn- 
essee understanding the land to [illegible] 
but of a lack of time and money never got to wonder 
how the particulars of the matter sometime after going 
to West Tennessee.  A Mr. MacKlimour wrote to his 
brother Richard Atkinson that there was certainly land 
for Atkinsons heirs - affiant states his mother is now 
wary also and thinks she would be entitled to a pension 
under the Act of July 1838 but as fate would be a great 
deal of trouble to [illegible] how claim and could not 
prove the service an examination of the roles might be 
of service information is therefore wanted on behalf 
of affiant's mother - affiants uncle, Philip Hall and 
William Hall both of this county and now as I under- 
stand many many relatives this
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Service officers {illegible] ages of the children

Sworn to and subscribed this 
23rd Day of October 1839 
before me

[signed]
B. Hancock J. P. 
Justice of the Peace
____________________________________________________

Jos. Atkinson

State of Kentucky
Wayne County Court Sit

I, William Simpson, clerk of the County Court 
for the County aforesaid hereby certify that 
Benjamin Hancock whose name appears to 
the foregoing [illegible] was at the date thereof 
and long before an acting Justice of the Peace 
in and for said county duly commissioned and 
sworn as such according to law and the signa- 
ture purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
subscribed my name and affixed the 
seal of said county this 28th day of 
October 1839.

Wm. Simpson, Clerk
of the Court of Wayne County
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State of Alabama  }
Lawrence County  }   SS

On this the 7th day of May, 1845, personally appeared 
before me Joseph Sandlin, a Justice of the Peace in and 
for said County, Elizabeth Atkinson, a resident citizen of 
said County, aged 82 years on the thirtieth day of May 
eighteen hundred and forty five and after being duly 
sworn for that purpose on her oath makes the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of 
Congress passed July the 7th, 1838, granting pension to 
certain widows, and also the benefit of the Act of Congress 
passed the 3rd day of March 1843, granting a pension to 
certain widows for one year, and also the benefit of the 
Act of Congress of the 17th day of June 1844, granting a 
pension to certain widows for four years that she is the 
widow of a certain John Atkinson, who was a Continental 
Soldier of the United States in the war of the Revolution, 
in the Continental North Carolina Line, and served some 
number of years to her undoubted belief and infast many 
things within her own knowledge touching his service and 
from his own narrative and a chain of facts and surrounding 
circumstances he served as such in the said war and long 
since the service of the said husband and after their 
marriage there came two men to the residence of this 
declarant and her said husband namely in Caswell [continued]
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County, North Carolin, and was making arrangements 
with her said husband, the said John Atkinson, to get 
his land claim from the State of North Carolina - that 
one of the names of said gentlemen was named 
Leathers the other John Darby - that to her best belief 
her husband served under a Col. Little, as to his captain 
she is not now certain Capt. White.  She relies on the 
records of the Rolls in the war office of the United 
States, as to the particulars of his service, and also the 
Roll of North Carolina as to the date period particulars 
of service.
She prays that the same may be considered as forming 
a part of this declaration - she believes her said husband 
served some period of three or five years or perhaps 
more - her husband was the identical man in whose 
right land was paid to said Leathers and Darby obtained 
land from North Carolina, and paid in West Tennessee 
someplace west of the mountains - this declarant was 
married to said John Atkinson in Caswell County, state of 
North Carolina on the 17th day of July seventeen hundred 
eighty three, by John Womack, a Justice of the Peace.
She has the assured record and is 82 years old 30th May, 
1845.  Her maiden name was Hall.  She continued to be 
the wife of said Atkinson until some portion of her 
children was grown and they migrated to Wayne County, 
Kentucky, and there in the western part of said County in 
the [illegible] neighborhood and on the 30th day of 
December 1810 her husband the said John Atkinson died. 
She has remained [continued]
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the widow of the said John Atkinson ever since his 
death, she will state that many of the relations of 
herself reside in Wayne County, Kentucky, that she 
can prove by them her marriage or by some of them 
and some others of them, things or circumstances 
in confirmation of the fact and time, John Hall of 
Wayne County, Kentucky, a deceased pensioner of 
the United States was declarant's brother and Wil- 
liam Hall, lately and probably now living is also her 
brother the widow of her declarant's brother Philip 
Hall also is most probably now living and the date 
of the marriage of some of declarant's children will 
give plausibility to the period of said marriage of 
declarant, to the said John Atkinson the deceased 
Continental Soldier, she designs making the declar- 
ation and sending it to Wayne County, Kentucky 
and there to get her friends and acquaintances to 
get such evidence of her marriage to said soldier, 
and such evidence of the said soldier's identity with 
the service as she may be able to procure which she 
believes will in all probability be satisfactory, she 
has been migrated from Wayne County, Kentucky 
where she now lives upwards of twenty five years, 
she was not married her said husband prior to the 
period of his service, but was married to him before 
the 1st day of January 1794, but was married to him 
on the seventeenth day of July 1783 as about stated, 
she is vastly old and frail and unable to attend court, 
and has [continued]
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called on a Justice of the Peace to attend to her case 
at home.  She has no record of her husband's service 
by relics or the records of government and verbal 
proof to sustain her claim.

"X"
her mark

Elizabeth Atkinson

Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of May, 1845 }
Joseph Sandlin
Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Sandlin, a Justice of the Peace, as set forth 
in the foregoing certify that the above applicant is 
from great age and bodily infirmity unable to attend 
court, given under my hand this day above written.

Joseph Sandlin
Justice of the Peace
_____________________________________________________________

State of Alabama }
Lawrence County }  SS

I Barnabas M. Isbell clerk of the County Court of Lawrence 
aforesaid certify that Joseph Sandlin Esq. is a Justice of the 
Peace as above and that the foregoing signature purporting 
to be his are genuine, and that full faith and credit are due 
all his official acts as such.

[official seal]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and official seal of office 
at office at Moulton the 7th day of May 
1845 and of American Independence 
the 69th year.

B. W. Isbell, Clerk
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The State of Alabama   }
Lawrence County          }  SS

Orphans Court 
November Term 1865

Present, the Honorable Richard O. Pickett, judge of said court.

I Barnabas W. Isbell, clerk of said court, certify that it is a court 
of renown, and that Richard O. Pickett, whose name appears to 
the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the 
same judge of said court duly commissioned and qualified as 
required by law, that full faith and credit are due all his official 
acts as such, and that the signature to be his is genuine.

Given under my hand and official seal
of office at office in Moulton the 22nd 
day of November 1965 and of American 
Independence the 70th year.

B. W. Isbell, Clerk
____________________________________________________________________

The State of Alabama  }
Lawrence County S.S.  } 

I Barnabas W. Isbell, clerk of the Orphan's Court of said county 
certify that the foregoing annexed papers were exhibited to the 
court in open court and that the same were approved as set forth 
in the foregoing certificate.

[official seal]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and seal of office at office 
in Moulton the 22nd day of November 
1865 and of American Independence 
the 70th year.

B. W. Isbell, Clerk
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State of Alabama   }
Lawrence County   }   Orphans' Court

November times 1865
The declarations of Johathan O. Norwood administrator 
of Elizabeth Adkinson, late, of said county, deceased, who 
was the widow of John Adkinson, deceased, who states 
that said Elizabeth Adkinson, his mother-in-law made a 
declaration claiming the benefit of the several Acts of 
Congress made for the relief of widows of Revolutionary 
soldiers.  Declarant states that he makes this as his original 
declaration and as an amendment to the declaration made 
by said Elizabeth Adkinson, before Joseph Sandlin Esq., on 
the 7th day of May 1865.  That is to say that said John 
Adkinson served as a Continental soldier of the North 
Carolina Line in the Revolutionary War as Corporal in 
Captain White's company of the Sixth Regiment, entered 
the service on the 24th day of April 1776 for the term of 
two and a half years and served till in June 1778, and 
served on till November 1778 as a private making upwards 
of two years service as a corporal, and six months as a 
private, he states that with this his declaration and as an 
amendment to the declaration made by said Elizabeth 
Adkinson (dec'd) that is to say he has now the advantage 
of a certificate and of her said husband's service at least of 
the two years and a half, and that he makes the letter of 
William Hill, marked "A" and dated the 13th of October 
1865 at Raleigh, N. C., together with the certificates marked 
"B" and one other letter marked "C" of the said William 
Hill which he makes a part of his declaration, that the said 
Elizabeth lived with him for twenty five years preceding her 
death and that she frequently speaks of the services of her 
said husband and that he carried a wound received in the 
service to his grave and [continued]

[NOTE:  Subscriber misspells last name 'Adkinson' vs. 'Atkinson']
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she frequently spoke of lands that he was certified to 
which he never received that there was some men came 
to her house in Person County or N. Carolina and handed 
him a discharge to get land for him, that and that he 
believes the land to be in N.W. Tennessee.  Declarant for 
them states that said Elizabeth Adkinson died at his 
house on the 19th day of July 1865, that said Elizabeth 
moved from Wayne County, Alab about 27 years past, 
that she has been with declarant twenty four years, up 
until her death which took place at the time he fore 
states, he prays on behalf of himself and the other heirs 
the benefit of the laws of congress to which said widow 
was [illegible] and makes the said widow's declaration a 
part of his and the certificates and letters which he 
encloses a part as to who the land was granted.

[signed]
Jonathan O. Norwood 
Administrator
________________________________________________________________

The State of Alabama  }
Lawrence County         }

I Richard O. Pickett, Judge of the County Court of 
Lawrence County, state aforesaid do hereby certify 
that Johnathan Norwood, Administrator of the 
estate of Elizabeth Adkinson (dec'd) appeared 
before me in open court this day and made oath 
that the matters and things contained in the fore- 
going did [illegible] signed by himself as true in 
faith and substance.

Given under my hand and seal this 21st day of November 1865

Rich. O. Pickett [illegible]

[NOTE:  Subscriber misspells last name 'Adkinson' vs. 'Atkinson']
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State of Kentucky    }
Wayne County         }  S.S.

On this the 30th day of June 1865 personally appeared before me 
William Hall, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, 
William Hall [illegible], a resident citizen of the county of Wayne 
aforesaid living within two miles and a half of me or thereabout 
and in the other creek settlement a man of undoubted veracity 
and with whom I have been acquainted from my earliest recollec- 
tion my age being sixty years old on the 10th day of August 1845.
And after being duly sworn for that purpose, on his oath makes the 
following affidavit that he affiant was born in the state of Maryland 
on the 7th day of August in the year seventeen hundred and 
seventy five and went or was moved to North Carolina at the age 
of three years, that he is brother of John Hall, a deceased pensioner 
of Kentucky and also a brother to Elizabeth Atkinson, the widow of 
John Atkinson, deceased, the affiant well recollects the said John 
Atkinson, when he first came to affiant's father's house and kept 
company with the sister of this affiant, namely Elizabeth, and when 
the said John Atkinson first came to affiant's father's house in 
Caswell County, North Carolina he wore a light horse cap and was 
there just from the United States service, and when the said John 
Atkinson was married to affiant's sister it was just at the close [cont.]
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of the Revolutionary War affiant was just about seven years 
old when the marriage took place between his said sister and 
said soldier, the marriage took place at the affiant's father's 
namely, Philip Hall's, in Caswell County, North Carolina, 
affiant has nothing now before him to make him certain as 
to the date of said marriage, but he is certain it was just about 
the close of the Revolutionary War and from now calculation 
he has no hesitation in saying it was in the year 1782 or 1783,
this affiant knows the fact that they were married just as herein 
stated, he was at the wedding and has known the family of 
said Atkinson up to this day having known them well in N. 
Carolina until they moved from North Carolina to Wayne 
County, Kentucky, where the said John Atkinson died, and 
Joseph Atkinson the 4th child of said John Atkinson and of 
Elizabeth his wife, lives in the same neighborhood where he 
said widow Elizabeth Atkinson moved to Lawrence County, 
Alabama where affiant knows she has lived a great many years, 
affiant was living in North Carolina and has some knowledge 
of Jones, Leathem, and Darby making arrangements to get 
said soldier's land claim for him,

[signed]
Wm. Hall [illegible]

Sworn and subscribed before me P. Hall [illegible]
Day and date above written

J. William Hall, [illegible]
a Justice of the Peace in and for the [cont.]
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county of Wayne and state of Kentucky certify that I was 
born in the neighborhood of the said John Atkinson, and 
Elizabeth, in North Carolina and I was born the 10th day 
of August 1783, on Sunday, I have a record of my age, 
when I was very small and first could recollect John Atkinson 
and Elizabeth Atkinson, his then wife, and now his widow, 
was well known to me, they were my uncle and aunt, I was 
from August 1783 to May 1784 older than Nancy, their 
oldest child of the said John Atkinson and said Elizabeth, 
said John Atkinson from all report and being so reported, 
was undoubtedly a soldier of the Revolutionary War and 
as was always said entitled to land for service, John Hall, 
my father, a deceased pensioner, always spoke of said John 
Atkinson as being a soldier of the Revolutionary Soldiers 
as did all his intimate, the words, in saying, and interlined 
in William Hall, [illegible] affidavit was interlined before 
being assigned by him or sworn to 

Given under my hand of this 30th day 
of year 1845,
W. Hall J.P.
_____________________________________________________________

State of Kentucky       }
Wayne County Court  }  Sct

I William Simpson, clerk of the county court for the county of 
said do certify that William Hall, Jr., whose name is subscribed 
above, is acting Justice of said court, and that the signatures 
purporting to be his are genuine, and [cont.]
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his attestation in due form of law.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed 
my name and affixed the seal of said court at 
office in Monticello this 1st day of July 1845

Wm. Simpson, Clerk
of the Court of Wayne County
_______________________________________________________

State of Kentucky     }
Clinton County  sct  }

I Samuel Long, a justice of the peace in and for said county 
certify that I have been made acquaintance with Wm. Hall, 
Jr., of Wayne County, whose name is subscribed to an 
affidavit above, for about twenty years, and a part of that time 
have lived a near neighborhood to him and I do not hesitate 
to say that he is a man renowned veracity.  I have never heard 
his character for truth or honesty doubted in any way what- 
ever.  Given under my hand this 2nd day of July 1845.

[signed]
Samuel Long J. P.
______________________________________________________________

Kentucky Clinton County Sct

I, Rice Maxey, clerk of said county court, certify that Samuel 
Long Esq., whose name is subscribed to the above certificate 
is and was at the time of signing the same, a magistrate as 
therein states duly commissioned and qualified, and that his 
said signature is genuine.

[private seal]

In writing whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
and affixed my private seal (there being no public 
one provided) as the clerk office this 3rd day of 
July 1845.

Rice Maxey, Clerk
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The State of Alabam    }
Lawrence County S.S.  }

Orphans Court November Term 1845
Present:  The Honorable Richard O. Pickett
Judge of said Court

On the application of Jonathan O. Norwood for the administration 
of Elizabeth Adkinson, deceased, it is therefore ordered by the court 
that he be appointed administrator of the goods and chattels, 
lands and tenement rights, and credits which were of said decedent 
at the time of her death and he having entered into bond in the final 
sum of one thousand dollars with Barnabas W. Isbell and Amos P. 
Gallaway, his securities conditioned as the law directs.  It is therefore 
ordered by the court that Letters of Administration be issued to him 
accordingly.

Said bond is in the words and figures following to wit.

Know all men by these present that Wm. Jonathan Norwood, 
Barnabas W. Isbell, and Amos P. Gallaway are held and firmly 
bound unto Richard O. Pickett, judge of the County Court of 
Lawrence, and State of Alabama and his successors in office 
in the final sum of one thousand dollars credits which payment 
well and truly to be made, we [illegible] each of us do bind 
ourselves, our heirs and firmly by these presents:
Sealed with our seals and dated the 21st day of November 
eighteen hundred and 45.

Now the condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the 
above bound Jonathan O. Norwood has been duly appointed 
administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Adkinson, deceased:
Now if said Jonathan shall well and truly perform all the duties 
which are or may be by law required of him as [cont.]

[NOTE:  Subscriber misspelled last name "Adkinson" vs. "Atkinson"]
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as administration of the above obligation to be void else to 
remain in full force and virtue.
[illegible] our hands and seals the date above written:

Jonathan O. Norwood [seal]
B. W. Isbell [seal]
A. P. Gallaway [seal]

Approved by me this day 21st November 1845
[signed]
R. O. Pickett
Judge County Court

_________________________________________________________________
Letters of Administration

The State of Alabama
Orphans Court of Lawrence County

Whereas it has been made known to said court that Elizabeth 
Adkinson, late of said county and lately died in testate, and that 
the right of granting administration of her estate by the laws of 
said state doth pertain to said court.  To the end therefore that 
the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of said 
Elizabeth Adkinson at the time of her death may be well and 
truly administered.  We by these presents give to Jonathan O. 
Norwood of said county (in whose fidelity we very much confide)  
full power and authority to administer all and singular the goods 
and chattels, rights and credits which were of said Elizabeth 
Adkinson at the time of her death.  To ask, receive, and recover 
the same, to pay the debts in which said deceased stood  
bound so far forth as her goods and chattels, rights and credits 
will extend according to their rate and the order of the law, 
the said Jonathan O. Norwood being first duly sworn to make a 
true inventory of the goods and chattels, rights and credits, and 
to exhibit and return the same into the clerk's office of said 
court at or before the date hereof.  And we hereby require the 
said Jonathan O. Norwood [cont.]
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to render to the said court according to law a just and true 
account of his said administration.

[illegible] Barnabas W. Isbell, clerk of our said court 
at office the 21st day of November 1845 in the year 
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty 
five, and of American Independence the 70th year.

Issued 21st day of November 1845
B. W. Isbell, Clerk
____________________________________________________________________

This day was presented in open court for probate an Instrument 
of writing purporting to be a declaration of Jonathan O. Norwood, Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Adkinson, deceased, and 
and amended declaration of the said Elizabeth Adkinson to the 
identity of the service of her husband John Adkinson, Corporal, 
and as a private, in the Revolutionary War.  Executed by said 
Norwood of the county of Lawrence bearing date this the 22nd 
day of November 1845.  And thereupon appeared in open court 
the said Jonathan O. Norwood whose identity is fully recognized by the court and acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the 
identical instrument of writing here to the court [illegible] on the 
day of the date thereof and for the purposes thus [illegible].  It is, 
therefore, considered and adjudged by the court that said instru- 
ment is fully proven to be the declaration of said Jonathan O. 
Norwood and the amended declaration of the same facts of said 
Elizabeth Adkinson as therein set forth.  It is therefore ordered to 
be [illegible] of this court and certified accordingly.
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The State of Alabama   }
Lawrence County S. S.  }

Personally appeared before me Barnabas W. Isbell, clerk of the 
Orphans Court of said county , Jonathan O. Norwood, Administrator 
of the estate of Elizabeth Adkinson, deceased.  He swears in due 
form of law that Mary Bercheen, Nancy Bridgefarmer, Joseph 
Adkinson, Lucretia Shoap, Celia Lane, Richard Adkinson, Elizabeth 
Jones, William Adkinson, and Priscilla Norwood are the lawful heirs 
of said decedent to the best of his knowledge.

[signed]
Jonathan O. Norwood

Sworn and subscribed before me this
22nd day of November 1845

[signed]
B. W. Isbell, Clk
_____________________________________________________________________

The State of Alabama   }
Lawrence County   S.S.  }

I Barnabas W. Isbell, clerk of the county and Orphans Court of said 
county certify that the foregoing transcript is a true copy of the 
appointment of Jonathan O Norwood as Administrator of the estate 
of Elizabeth Adkinson, deceased, and his bond, letters of administra- 
tion and all his acts as such administrator as appears to us of record.

[official seal]

Given under my hand and official seal of the 
office at office in Moulton the 22nd day of 
November 1845, and of American Independence 
the 70th year.

[signed]
B. W. Isbell, Clk
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Payment to be made at 
Tuskaloosa

by
James H. Deming

Agent for paying pensioners, 
in the Agency of
Tuskaloosa, Alabama

Recorded in the Pension Office, 
in Book A
Volume 2
Page 210 
by [illegible], Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, 
of the 3rd March, 1843 and 17th June, 1844 - Elizabeth Atkinson, 
deceased, who was the widow of John Atkinson, who was a 
corporal, was entitled to a pension at the rate of eighty-eight 
dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1843 and 
ending on the nineteenth, July, eighteen hundred and forty-five, 
the day of her death; which will be paid upon the production of 
the proper [illegible] to Jonathan O. Norwood, Administrator, for 
the sole use and benefit of Mary Bercheen, Nancy Bridgefarmer, 
Joseph Atkins, Lucretia Shoap, Celia Lane, Richard Atkinson, 
Elizabeth Jones, William Atkinson and Priscilla Norwood, only 
surviving children of Elizabeth Atkinson, deceased.

[official seal]

Given at the War Office of the United States, 
this Sixteenth day of March, 
one thousand eight hundred and forty-six-

Wm. L. Marcy 
[William Learned Marcy]
Secretary of War

Examined and }
Countersigned}

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[text from the Old Testament of the Holy Bible]

Blessings to those that fear God.

CHAP. IV

The study of the law recommended.

16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another; and the 
LORD hearkened and heard it:  and a book of remembrance was written 
before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his 
name.
17 And they shall be mine, faith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I 
make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own for 
that ferveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the 
wicked; between him that ferveth God, and him that ferveth him not.

CHAP. IV.
1 God's judgment on the wicked, 2 and his blessing on the good, 4 
he exhorteth to the study of the law, 5 and telleth of Elijah's coming 
and office.

For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, 
yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:  and the day that cometh 
shall burn them up, faith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither 
root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise 
with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of 
the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the 
soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, faith the LORD of hosts.
4 remember ye the law of Moses my fervant, which I commanded unto 
him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the 
great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart 
of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a 
curse.

THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT


[the following is handwritten on this page of the Holy Bible]

Marcy Atkinson [illegible] was born July 19, 1722 the mother of John Atkinson
Lucinda Lane was born November 27, [illegible]
Nalinda Lane was born October 16, [illegible]
Elizabeth Lane was born October 26, [illegible]
Nancy Lane was born October 26, [illegible]
John Lane was born November 18, 1820

I do certify that the above names on this page is the old lady's grand- 
children ages "X"
Joseph Sandlin J.P.
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Elizabeth Atkinson:  her record of her age and 
the age of John Atkinson, her husband, and also 
her children.

[signed] Joseph Sandlin J. P.

A record of John and Elizabeth Atkinson family

John Atkinson [illegible] was born March 15, 1756
Elizabeth Atkinson was born May 30, [year not noted]
Nancy Atkinson was born May 12, 1784
Marcy Atkinson was born January 19, 1786
Lucrecy Atkinson was born March 13, 1787
Joseph Atkinson was born May 19, 1788
[illegible] Atkinson was born September 20, 1789
Elizabeth Atkinson was born September 29, 1791
Richard Atkinson was born April 29, 1793
William Atkinson was born November 16, 1795
John Atkinson was born December 5, 1797
Cathann Atkinson was born February 25, 1801
Philip Atkinson was born May 2, 1802
Priscilla Atkinson was born February 12, 1804
Sousey Atkinson was born March 30, 1806

Elizabeth Jones deceased August 26, 1817

Nancy Jones was born January 16, 1814
Elizabeth Jones was born December 30, 1815
[illegible]
Page 26

No. 2
Elizabeth Atkinson

[stamped]
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
Page 27

Pension Agency Tuscaloosa, Ala
May 20th, 1846

Received of James H. Deming, agent for paying pensions 
two hundred and nine dollars, being for two years, four 
months and fifteen days, pension due to Elizabeth Atkinson, 
deceased, from the 4th of March, 1843 to the 19th day of 
July 1845, the day of her death, for which I have signed 
duplicate receipts.

$209.00

[signed] Jonathan O. Norwood
Page 28

KY

WIDOW, &c.

File No: 10358
Elizabeth Atkinson
Widow of John Atkinson, Corp. N. Carolina

Act:  March 3d 1843
Index:  Vol. A, Page 21

{Arrangement of 1870}
Page 29

9905.

Alabama.

Elizabeth Atkinson, deceased

Widow of John Atkinson,
who was a pension under the Act of _________
and who died on the 30, December, 1810
of Lawrence Co. in the State of Alabama,
who was a Corporal in the __________
commanded by Captain _________ of the
Regt: commanded by Col. Lytle in
the N. Carolina line for 2 years
_________________________________________________

Inscribed on the Roll of Tuskaloosa, 
at the rate of 88 Dollars ___________ 
cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day 
of March, 1836
___________________________________________________

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of 
March, 1846 and sent to W. J. Dabney, 
Albany, Kentucky

Total amount, $440.00
{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by Matt Stewart, Clerk
Book D, Vol. 1, Page 329
Page 30

No 12038

Elizabeth Atkinson dcd
who was the widow of 
John Atkinson
Ala
Act of July 1838

aond 2 year Corporal
$88.00 [illegible]

Payable to Jonathan O. Norwood
aond of Elizabth Atkinson
dcd for the use and benefit of 
Mary Bercheen, 
Nancy Bridgefarmer, 
Joseph Atkinson, 
Sucretia Shoap, 
Celia Lane, 
Richard Atkinson, 
Elizabeth Jones, 
William Atkinson, 
and Priscilla Norwood, 
only living children of 
E. Atkinson dcd.
___________________________________

[illegible] 31 March 1843 [illegible]
Issue 1844, $88.00 [illegible]
4 March 1843 to 19 July 1945 
the day of her death, payable as alive

Wm. J. Dabney
Albany, Kentucky
Page 31

No. 2038

Elizabeth Atkinson

Ala
Set to W. J. Dabney
August 18, '45.
Set to [illegible] A. Cullom
Jan'y 5, '46

Act of July 1838
Page 32

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Office of Secretary of State.

I William Hill, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby 
certify that it appears from the muster-rolls of the Continental line of this State in 
the Revolutionary War, that John Adkinson, a Corporal, in Capt. White's Company 
of the 6th Regiment, entered the service on the 24th day of April 1776 for the term 
of two and a half years, and that he was a private in June 1778, and omitted in 
November 1778.  A Land Warrant for 228 acres was issued for his services.

Given under my hand this 13th day of October 1845.
[signed] Wm. Hill, Secretary of State
Page 33

[blank form - no handwritten entry]

Payment to be made
at _________
by _________
Agent for paying pensioners, 
in the Agency of ______________

Payable on the 4th March
and 4th September in each year.

Recorded in the Pension Office,
in Book ______  Vol. ______
Page ______ by ___________________


_______________________ Clerk.
Page 34

[form has been grossly modified by striking existing text and 
inserting additional information]

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five Years' Pension.

I certify that in conformity with the acts of July 7, 1838,
[handwritten insert] March 3rd, 1843 and June 17, 1844]

Elizabeth Atkinson, dcd. who was the widow of John Atkinson 
who was a Corporal, was entitled to a pension at the rate of $88 
per annum.
[several lines of handwriting illegible]
19 July 1856, the day of the death which will be used in the 
production of the proper voucher to Jonathan O. Norwood, Adm. 
for the use and benefit of:
Mary Brecheen, Nancy Bridgefarmer, Joseph Atkinson, Sucretia 
Shoap, Celia Lane, Richard Atkinson - son, Elizabeth Jones, 
William Atkinson and Priscilla Norwood, only living children of 
Elizabeth Atkinson, dec'd. 

Payment to be made at Tuskaloosa, Alabama.

Given at the War Office of the United States,
this 16th day of March one thousand eight hundred and '46

Secretary of War
[no signature]

Examined and 
Countersigned.

Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 35

Pension Office
April 4, 1840

Sir,

I herewith return the affidavit of Joseph Atkinson, 
and leave to state that no information can be given 
respecting service, in a case where a widow wishes 
to make application until she shall have exhibited 
her declaration.  If the widow of John Atkinson, 
deceased, will make a declaration setting forth the 
service of her husband, the full benefit of the record 
of service in this office will be amended to be in the 
examination of her claim.

I am respectfully your [illegible],

[signed] J. L. Edwards

Robert A. Dabney, Esq.
Morgan C. H.
Tennessee
Page 36

Raleigh 30th July 1840.

Mr. Willliam Dabney

Sir

Your letter of the 10th instant came to hand today, and I find 
on examination that the warrant for bounty land that was due 
to John Atkinson for his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary 
War, was drawn by Vinckler Jones by a [illegible] attorney from 
Westwood A. Jones, who had a power of attorney from John 
Atkinson.  The warrant is No. 645 for 228 acres of land.  John 
Atkinson was in Capt. White's company of the 6th Regiment 
for 2 1/2 years.  The warrant has no doubt been located in 
West Tennessee long since.

For this service you owe me 20 cents.

Yours respectfully

[signed] W. Hill

P. S. Westwood A. Jones lived in this county (Wake) a deposition 
in the case, I see, was taken in Person County.

[initialed] W.H.
Page 37

Roseboro September 17th 1841

Dear James, 

I rec'd a letter from you containing a one dollar bill dated the [illegible] 
day of June last [illegible].  I also rec'd another a few days ago dated the  
13th day of Aug't last stating that you had not heard from me.  I must 
confess that I owe you and that also sadly that you are writing in behalf 
of an apology during the month of June, July and a part of the month of 
August.  I was engaged in a [illegible] for the office that I held before the 
people of Person County therefore I did [illegible] to answer the letter, I 
now have to inform you that I have examined the bond filed in my office 
and am unable to find any given by John Atkinson to Mary Elizabeth Hall. 
You state in your letter that the marriage must have taken place something 
like 59 years past.  In the year 1791 the county of Caswell was divided and 
the part taken from Caswell makes Person.  All papers previous to that time 
is filed in Caswell, therefore, the land must be in Caswell.
I send the $1 bill to you again as I never charge a worthy widow of a 
Revolutionary soldier anything for the trouble.  I may be at [illegible] then 
a [illegible].  I am truly sorry that I cannot give you more information.

I am yours respectfully,

[signed] Charles Mason

William Dabney Esq.
Page 38

Yanceyville NC
March 15th

Free

To:  William Dabny Esq. [illegible]
Newberg Wayne County
Kentucky

Mail }

R A Dabny
Page 39

Yanceyville N. C. March 1841

Dear Sir

I acquired from you a few days since a letter requesting me 
to examine the records of this office in order to ascertain 
whether the Marriage Bond of John Atkinson was in this 
office.  I have examined accordingly from the year 1778 to 
the year 1892 and find no such record.  I think that is more 
likely in the office of Person County.

Yours with great respects

[signed] G. W. Van Hook, DCR
of Caswell County Court
1841
_______________________________________________________________

To:  William Dabny. Esq.
P. M.  Newberg Wayne County
Kentucky
Page 40

Albany Ky [illegible] July
1845

Sir

I enclosed to you the declaration and proof in the case 
of Elizabeth Atkinson, widow of John Atkinson, Dcd. 
Claiming a pension for the service of her husband in the 
North Carolina Continental line you will please direct 
your answer to me at Albany Ky. on her behalf.

I am you humble servant

[signed] Wm. J. Dabney


J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
Page 41

Raleigh 13th October 1845

Sir

Your letter of the 29th ultimo is received and [illegible]. 
I have not seen or heard anything of the letter you say you 
wrote a few days before.  I here enclose you a certificate that 
will no doubt fully satisfy the commissioner of pensions of 
the services of John Adkinson for two and a half years.  For 
this service you will be so good as to send me a $5. bill.  N. 
Carolina or S. Carolina money as Tennessee money is not at 
par here.  and when you write, say to whom your former 
letter was addressed.  I have inquired of the governor who 
says he has not seen anything of it.

yours respectfully

[signed] W. Hill


Mr. Robert A. Dabney
Page 42

State of Tennessee  }
Fentress County      }

On this the [blank] day of December A.D. 1845 personally appeared 
before me William Lee, as Justice of the peace in and for said county, 
Robert A. Dabney, with whom I am well acquainted, his statements 
being entitled to full credit, and after being duly sworn for the purpose 
on his oath makes the following affidavit to wit.
That the affiant has been acquainted with the family of John Atkinson, 
or Adkinson, but frequently called Adkerson, of the Otter Creek neigh- 
borhood of Wayne County Kentucky ever since the latter part of the 
year 1840, that report and tradition has ever since walled in said 
neighborhood that said John Adkinson, the husband of Elizabeth 
Adkinson, and the father of Joseph Adkinson, and Richard Adkinson, 
and William Adkinson, and the other children known and called the 
children of said John and Elizabeth: was a Continental North Carolina 
soldier and entitled to land for serving as such in the North Carolina 
line in the Revolutionary War said John Adkinson's widow was reputed 
and known to be the [cont.]
Page 43

sister of John Hall a Revolutionary Pensioner in Kentucky 
and lived near where said Adkinson lived in Kentucky, that 
the tradition that they immigrated from North Carolina to 
said Otter Creek neighborhood in Wayne County.  Affiant 
has often heard Richard Adkinson and Joseph Adkinson 
speaking of their said father's land claim for service in said 
war and alleging that it lay some place as they understood 
or called West Tennessee.  These traditions prevailed in the 
neighborhood where said John Adkinson died.  Among the 
Adkinson's, Halls, and affiant believes among the most 
intimate acquaintances of the Adkinson's that the truth of 
said tradition was acquiesced in to the extent of all the 
persons affiant recollects to have conversed with on the 
matter.  Affiant was familiar with the character of the said 
Adkinson, these things were familiar with affiant, long and 
for twenty years before affiant had any agency or attorney- 
ship in behalf of the widow of said John Adkinson for a 
pension.

Robert A. Dabney

Sworn to and subscribed this 16th day 
of December 1845 before me,

William Lee J.P.
Page 44

State of Tennessee  }
Fentress County      }

I, John H. Richardson, clerk of the county court of said county do hereby 
certify that the foregoing certification purporting to be mine is genuine, 
and that William Lee, whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit, 
was at the time of signing the same and acting Justice of the Peace for 
said county duly commissioned and sworn, and that his said signature is 
genuine.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the seal of said 
court at office this 17th day of December 
1845

John H. Richardson, Clerk
by  A. A. Swope, D.C. (Deputy Clerk)
Page 45

State of Tennessee   }
Fentress County       }  S.S.

County Court December Term 1845

I, John H. Richardson, clerk of the county court of Fentress County, 
state of Tennessee, by my deputy, A. A. Swope, do hereby certify 
that it was proved to the satisfaction of the court that Robert A. 
Dabney, attorney at law, who proposed to the court that he design- 
ed to give his testimony of such things as came to his knowledge 
before he was employed in relation to the claim of Elizabeth Adkinson 
or Atkinson, that the court was fully satisfied that full credit was due 
the oath or the affidavit of said Dabney which was ordered to be 
entered of record and is accordingly done.

Given under my hand this 1st day of 
December 1845.

John H. Richardson, Clerk
By A. A. Swope D.C. (Deputy Clerk)
Page 46

State of Kentucky   }
Clinton County       }  SS

On this the 15th day of September 1845 personally appeared 
before me, George Swope, and acting Justice of the Peace for 
said county, Elizabeth Dabney, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the 
United States aged seventy one years, her statements being 
entitled to full credit, and after being duly sworn for that purpose 
on her oath makes the following affidavit, to wit;
She states she has been much acquainted with the family of 
John Atkinson and Elizabeth Atkinson since the death of said 
John Atkinson whose widow and many of their children lived in 
the Otter Creek neighborhood in Wayne County, Kentucky, 
that the report which witness well understood to be, was that 
said John Atkinson was a Revolutionary soldier and that he 
together his wife and some of his wife's brothers with whom 
affiant was also acquainted immigrated to said neighborhood 
from some place in North Carolina as report said, all of which 
affiant believes is true.

"X" her mark
Elizabeth Dabney

Sworn to and subscribed this 15th day of 
September 1845, before me

George Swope, J.P. C.C.


I certfy that I am well acquainted with affiant and know that she 
lived a long time among the relations of said Atkinsons and Halls, 
and that she appears to understand well what she has deposed to 
in the above affidavit.

Sept 15th 1845
Geo. Swope, J.P. C.C.
Page 47

Kentucky Clinton County Sct

I, Rice Maxey, clerk of the Clinton County Court, certify that 
George Swope, whose signature appears to the foregoing 
affidavit and certificate, is and was at the time of signing the 
same and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, 
and full faith and credit is due to his acts as such and the 
foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.

[official seal]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed my seal of 
office, done at Albany this [illegible] 
day of Dec. 1845

[signed]
Rice Maxey, Clerk
Page 48

State of Kentucky   }
Adair County          }   S.S.

I, George A. Caldwell, late a member of Congress from the 
4th District in Ky. do hereby certify that I am well acquainted 
with, Samuel Snow, and Samuel Long, Esq., of Clinton Co., 
Ky. and with William Hall, Esq., of Wayne Co., Ky., and that 
they are all gentlemen of the highest respectability and 
entitled to full confidence as gentlemen of undoubted 
veracity and integrity.

Witness my hand this 27th day of Dec. 1845

[signed]
Geo. A. Caldwell
Page 49

State of Kentucky   }
Clinton County       }  Sct

I, Rice Maxey, clerk of the Clinton County Court, certify that 
Thomas Bristow, whose signatures appear to the foregoing 
affidavit and certificate is and was at the time of signing the 
same and acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county 
aforesaid, and full faith and credit is due to his acts as such, 
and the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.

[official seal]

In witness whereof I have herein unto 
set my hand and the seal of said court 
of Albany, this 16th day of December 
1845
[illegible initials]

[signed]
Rice Maxey, Clerk
Page 50

16th

Thomas Bristow


[illegible] Death
Page 51

Sworn and subscribed to this 
16th day of December 1845 
before me

[signed]
Thomas Bristow, J.P. C.C.

I certify that I am well acquainted with Mary Hall and 
with the family of the Halls and with some of the family 
of the Adkinson's and believe her statements to be true, 
that she is entitled to full credit given under my hand this 
the 16th day of December 1845.

[signed] 
Thomas Bristow, J.P. C.C.

[signed]
"X" her mark
Mary Hall
Page 52

Jamestown, Tennessee
Fentress County, Tennessee
December 17th, 1845

Sir,

Enclosed is the affidavit of myself in relation to the claim of 
the administrator and heirs of Elizabeth Atkinson or Adkinson, 
deceased, to the amount of pension due said widow up to the 
time of her death.  She died in Lawrence County, Alabama, the 
19th day of July 1845.  her amended declaration, and the 
affidavits, documents and papers in support of the claim will 
be forwarded to you from - 

Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky

By my partner, Wm. J. Dabney, Esq., my brother, I wish you to file 
these papers with the other papers in the cause, and after getting 
the declaration and claim from my said brother, to investigate the 
case and send your answer to my brother. 

Wm. J. Dabney, Albany, 
Clinton County, Ky.

Respectfully your humble servant,
[signed]
R. A. Dabney
Page 53

Sug 14, 1846

[illegible] case
Elizabeth Adkins

[addressee]
J. S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
Page 54

Albany, Kentucky
Dec the 31st 1845

Sir

I enclose to you the certificate of G. A. Caldwell, late 
a member of this district who has been long acquaint- 
ed with some of the witnesses in the case of Jonathan 
O. Norwood, Administrator of Elizabeth Adkinson, Dc'd. 
I want and have enclosed the certificate with the other 
papers but did not have it ready at that time.

Your humble servant

[signed] William J. Dabney


[addressee]
J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
Page 55

Dec 31, 1845
Elizabeth Adkinson dcd

July 7, 1838

[addressee]
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
Page 56

Albany, Kentucky
17th December 1865

Sir

I enclose to you the papers in the case of Jonathan O. Norwood, 
Administrator of Elizabeth Adkinson, Dcd, who made a declaration 
to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress for the service of her 
deceased husband of John Adkinson.  I hope the enclosed papers 
is a [illegible] with the [illegible].  Please direct an answer to me at 
this place.  On behalf of the Administration and him.

I am your humble servant

[signed] William J. Dabney


[addressee]
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
Page 57

House of Rep

Decem the 28th 1845

Sirs

I hereunto send you (as requested) the letter of Robt A Dabney 
of Fentress County, Tennessee.  I am well acquainted and have 
been for the last thirty years with William Hall Esq of Wayne 
County, Kentucky and also with his character.  And can state 
without hesitation that his moral character is good that his in- 
tegrity to [illegible] knowledge was never called in question 
and that I should think him [illegible] to feel [illegible] upon 
[illegible]
With the last name Wm Wm Hall I am not so well acquainted 
have had some acquaintances with him from my [illegible] 
recollections.  I know that his character is good never heard of 
his morals or integrity being impeached he was a man of good 
standing in society in [illegible] respect

[signed] A. Cullom

[addressee]
Col J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 58

State of Kentucky Wayne County, SS

On this the 12th day of December 1845, personally appeared before 
me William Hall, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, James 
Perdue, with whom I am well acquainted and made oath in due form 
of law, that he is well acquainted in the Otter Creek vicinity of Wayne 
County, Kentucky, and in the neighborhood of the relations of John 
Adkinson, deceased, whose widow moved to Alabama.  Said affiant 
having lived long among the acquaintance of said deceased and know 
that the talk and tradition of the said neighborhood has long prevailed 
that said John Adkinson was a Revolutionary soldier in North Carolina 
and from said report and belief of others affiant fully believes that he 
was such such affiant believes to be the undoubted opinion of the 
acquaintances of the Adkinson's here.

[signed] James Perdue

Sworn to and subscribed this 
12th day of December 1845 
before me William Hall, J.P.


I, certify that James Perdue, who has subscribed and sworn to the 
foregoing [cont.]
Page 59

affidavit is entitled to full credit that he has lived in this 
said neighborhood upwards of thirty years

Given under my hand this 12th day December 1845,

[signed]
William Hall J.P.
Page 60

State of Kentucky  }
Wayne County       }  SS

On this the 11th day of December 1845, personally appeared before 
me William Hall, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Samuel 
Snow, with whom I am intimately acquainted, his statements being 
entitled to full credit and after being duly sworn for that purpose on 
oath states that he has lived in the vicinity of the place where John 
Adkinson died, and where some of his children have lived, being in the 
Otter Creek vicinity and lower end of Wayne County, Kentucky, for 
about twenty six years last past, affiant living all the time within about  
ten miles of the said neighborhood of the Adkinson's and his wife 
relations the Halls and has during the said time been very much 
acquainted with the character that John Adkinson bore in said neigh- 
borhood as having been a soldier of the Revolutionary War of the 
Continental North Carolina line, affiant unstood him to emigrate to 
Wayne County, Ky. and there to have died affiant has no hesitation in 
saying that said John Adkinson [cont.]
Page 61

has been reported to be a soldier of the Revolutionary War and 
such report and reputation has prevailed in said Otter Creek 
settlement in Wayne County ever since the said John Adkinson 
was first known in the said vicinity, affiant is of the undoubted 
opinion that said Adkinson was a soldier as tradition here says 
and has long prevailed without contradiction to affiant's know- 
ledge, affiant has a knowledge that the widow of said John 
Adkinson emigrated to and lived in Lawrence County, Alabama, 
affiant has had an extensive acquaintance the relations of John 
Adkinson and his said widow Adkinson and their acquaintance.

[signed] Samuel Snow


Sworn to and subscribed this 
11th day of December 1845 
before me [signed]
William Hall, J.P.
Page 62

State of Kentucky  }
Wayne County       }  SS

I, William Hall, a Justice of the Peace for said county, certify that 
Samuel Snow, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing 
affidavit lives and has long lived in the neighborhood as he has 
stated, and has been so circumstanced as to have an opportunity 
of knowing what he has deposed to in the foregoing affidavit and 
that he is an intelligent man of good character, and from things 
in my own knowledge, I believe the foregoing affidavit is true.

Given under my hand this 
11th day of December A D 1845,

[signed] William Hall J.P.


Commonwealth of Kentucky }
Wayne County                       }  SS

I, William Simpson, clerk of the county court of Wayne aforesaid, 
certify that William Hall, Esq. is a Justice of the Peace as set forth 
in the foregoing, and was at the time of signing the same and the 
foregoing signatures, purporting to be his are [cont.]
Page 63

his genuine signatures, and full faith and credit are due his 
said official acts.

[official seal]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed my seal of 
office this 11th day of December 1845,

[signed]
William Simpson, Clk
of the Court of Wayne County
Page 64

House of Rep
9th April 1846

Sir

Allow me to call your attention to the contents of the 
enclosed letter of Wm J Dabney with a request that 
[undetermined number of lines missing]
of the case therein referred to and inform me have the 
[illegible]

I am very respectfully 
your humble servant

[signed] A Cullom


[addressee]
Col J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Page 65

1843 and 1844  2 yr. 1846

No. 2

Elizabeth Atkinson

$88.00 ov  for  1843

$121.00 ov  for  1844


[stamped]
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
Page 66

State of Alabama   }
Tuscaloosa County }  SS

Be it known that before me, C L Williams, a Justice of the Peace 
in and for said county personally appeared, Jonathan O. Norwood, 
Administrator of Elizabeth Atkinson, deceased, and made oath in 
due form of law that he is the identical person named in an original 
certificate in this proposition of which I certify the following is a 
true [illegible].
War Department, Revolutionary Claim 
I certify that in conformity with the laws of the United States on the 
3rd of March 1843 and 17th of June 1844, Elizabeth Atkinson, deceased, 
who was the widow of John Atkinson who was a Corporal, was entitled 
to a pension at the rate of Eighty-eight dollars per annum commencing 
on the 4th of March 1845 and [illegible words] nineteenth of July 
Eighteen hundred and forty four the day of his death which will be 
the first [illegible words] of the pension voucher to Jonathan O. Norwood, 
Administrator for the sole use and benefit of Mary Bercheem, Nancy 
Bridgefarmer, Joseph Atkinson, Lucrecia Shoap, Celia Lane, Richard 
Atkinson, Elizabeth Jones, William Atkinson and Priscilla Norwood and 
surviving children of Elizabeth Atkinson, deceased. 

Given at the war office of the United States this 
sixteenth day of March on thousand eight hundred 
and forty six.

[signed]
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

That the said deceased Elizabeth Atkinson, widow of John Atkinson 
recorded in the county of Lawrence in the State of Alabama for the [cont.]
Page 67

span of about thirty years before her death and that prior 
to that she lived in county of Wayne, state of Kentucky of 
the truth which statement I am fully satisfied.

Jonathan O. Norwood

Sworn to and subscribed this 
20th day May 1846 before me

C. Louis Williams
______________________________________________________________

State of Alabama    }
Tuscaloosa County }  SS

I, C. Louis Williams, a magistrate in the county above named, 
do hereby certify that [illegible] the most satisfactory evidence 
[illegible] Williams that Jonathan O. Norwood who has this day 
[several illegible words] named in the pension certificate as 
administrator which he has [illegible] exhibited before me 
[several illegible words] bearing date at the [illegible] of March 
1846.

Sworn under my hand this 20 day of May 1846

C. Louis Williams, J.P.
__________________________________________________________________

I, Robert P. Blount, clerk of the county court of Tuscaloosa County 
certify that C. L. Williams is a magistrate as above and true fore- 
going signature purporting to be his is genuine in testimony 
whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed 
my name this 20th day of May 1846.

[signed] Robert P. Blount, Clerk
Page 68

I certify that I am well acquainted with Joseph Adkinson of 
Wayne County, Kentucky and Nancy Bridgefarmer, children 
of John and Elizabeth Adkinson, Dcd, and [illegible] many of 
the Halls of Wayne County and some of this county, relations 
of said Adkinson that they as a family are respectable and 
from report John Atkinson must have been a Revolutionary 
soldier.

Given under my hand this 11th day of February 1846

[signed] Saml Long, J.P. C.C.
_______________________________________________________________

State of Kentucky   }
Clinton County       }  Sct

I certify that Samuel Long, whose signature appears to the 
foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the 
same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county 
aforesaid and full faith is due to his acts as such and the 
foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine in 
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
affixed my seal of office at Albany this 10th day of February 
1846.

[signed] Rice Maxey, Clk
by W. H. Spencer, D. Clk
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Albany, Kentucky
February 10th 1846

Sir

I enclose to you the certificate of Samuel Long, Esq., who is 
acquainted with some of the children of John and Elizabeth 
Adkinson, Dcd.  I forwarded the original and amended 
declaration in the case some two months since the original 
declaration made by the widow Elizabeth Adkinson and the 
declaration made by her son-in-law Jonathan O. Norwood, 
her administrator.  Since that time, I forwarded a certificate 
of the late Hon. G. A. Caldwell all of which has likely been 
duly received and as the certificate of Caldwell as to Samuel 
Long [illegible] others has been sent and [illegible] 
certificate not sent as I now recollect I now send it you will 
please direct an answer to me at Albany, Ky -

Your humble servant

[signed] William J. Dabney



[addressee]
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.