Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 5328, for Elias Massey, North Carolina
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N.C

Massey, Elias
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W 5328
B.L. Wt. 53752-160-55

CONTENTS
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259.698 Act Mar. 3. 43
Oct. 18, '16
Elizabeth Massey, wid.
Elias Massey pri.
Private
Revy war.
N.C July 28 Sus
(Claimant aged 95 years.0
Ad. 160 ac's Jany 12/57 Dodge
S.B. True, Present.

[Written across document]
53752 if Jany 19/57
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Restoration
6426
North Carolina
Elizabeth Massey, widow of Elias Massey who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private.
Inscribed on the Raleigh Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 25 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1861. Ending October 10th, 1864.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of June 1867 and sent to S. V. Niles
Washington D.C.
(262, J St.)
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 2, 1848, Page 194, Vol. H.,
J. N. Smith, Clerk
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12620 
Feb 14, 1846
Elizabeth Massey
North Carolina 
Act 7 July 1838

W. S. Allison
Present
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[Note: Elizabeth Massey’s Affidavit mentions that her husband, Private Massey, was haunted after the Revolutionary War by memories of a “‘little soldier’” he had encountered at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. It is tenable to assume that this person was a young British soldier, but more evidence is needed. For the purposes of clarification, the term will be transcribed as “Little Soldier” to indicate this unnamed individual.].
State of North Carolina 
Anson County
On this 25th day of December 1845 personally appeared before me, Newell Hubbard, one of the acting Justices of the Peace for said County, Elizabeth Massey, a resident of North Carolina in the County aforesaid aged 85 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 provision made by the Act of July 7th 1838 and Act of 25th August 1842, granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Elias Massey who was a private in the North Carolina Militia in the Revolutionary war and from his narrative of his services rendered to the United States during the war of the Revolution he served five tours of duty of three months each. I have heard him speak at times of his ups and downs in the war and of the great suffering he endured at the Battle at Guilford Courthouse under General Greene, and of the circumstance of the little soldier in the time of the Battle who was in the rear. [Illegible] and told the little soldier not to shoot him. that I have heard him speak of General Lincoln and other officers, but the lapse of time and loss of memory deprives me of making any further statement relative to Battles and names of officers. That Robert Webb, Esq. of Richmond County took five of my husband’s discharges in his possession many years ago, in order to procure a pension for him in his lifetime, but Mr. Webb Shortly afterwards died and we moved from Richmond and Mr. Massey not long afterwards died and I never knew what went with the discharges nothing more was done until about three years ago a man undertook to procure a pension for me and I have never seen him since. that she is not on the pension role and is willing to accept such pension as the Government will allow
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She further declares that she was married to the said Elias Massy in the month of August after peace October 12th, 1827. That she was married to him before January 1794 to wit at the time above stated. She begs here to say that my first name was Elizabeth Gatewood, and that she was born in North Hampton or Halifax County at the age of two years old. My father moved to this Anson County in this State. When I [was grown up] I went on a visit back to North Hampton in Halifax County where Mr. Massey lived, [and] he had not long returned from the service before we were married. [I]n two or three years we moved back to Anson where my father then lived in a short time. Mr. Massey moved over Pedee River in Richmond County then to Anson County again after many years we moved to Mecklenburg County in this State. I now reside in Anson County. I have had fifteen children with Mr. Massey; our oldest if was living would be I think 60 years of age and my youngest has been grown and Married twice many years ago the family bible kept by us of our children’s ages  has long since been destroyed after [a house fire] burnt everything we had except the clothes we had on and cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend at the courthouse. 
Elizabeth Massey
Sworn to and subscribed before me. 
Newell Hubbard, Justice of the Peace
This may certify that I believe Elizabeth Massy who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration to be 85 years of age and cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend at the courthouse and is the lawful widow of Elias Massey and [has] not married since his death and that her statement to credit as she is an old lady of well-known veracity. 
I do further certify that I have often heard her father and Mr. Massy talk about the War of the Revolution and of the very circumstances about the Little Soldier in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse that Mrs. Massey has mentioned and of other Battles and of other service. Given under my hand the day and date above mentioned December 25th AD 1845.
Newell Hubbard, Justice of the Peace
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[I], James Gordon, do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Elias Massey and Elizabeth his wife for thirty years past and that Mr Massy was reputed and believed to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that he was a man that sustained a good Christian Character and died on the 12th day of October 1827 and that Elizabeth Massey is 85 years of age and his lawful widow and the fact has never been donated as ever I have of.
That she is a woman whose oath is to be believed and her statement to credit. Given under my hand this 29th day of December AD 1845 and in the sixty sixth year of my age. 
Sworn and subscribed to the day and date aforesaid.
James Gordon

I, Ruben Gordon, hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Elias Massey and Elizabeth, his wife for sixty years past. They were together them as man and wife and if her oldest child was living it would now be sixty years old. Said Massey lived in our neighborhood when his house got burned and everything they had but what they had, of that part there is no doubt, that he was rejected and believed to have been a soldier of the revolution as I have heard him of times speak of his services in the war and that he always supported a good moral character and for thirty years a good Christian character that Elizabeth Mary is the lawful widow of Elias Mary, who died on October 12 1827 and that her statement is entitled to Credit.
Given under my hand December 29th 1845 and in the 76th year of my age.
Sworn and subscribed to the day and date aforesaid.
Burton Gordon

Mark the day and date above written before me, Newell Hubbard. This may certify that the two witnesses, James Gordon and Ruben Gordon, who have subscribed and sworn to the two above affidavits are both persons of known respectability and persons of good Christian character and their statement are Entitled to credit, same day and date.
Newell Hubbard, Justice of the Peace
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I, Norfleet D. Boggan, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Anon County, certify that Newell Hubbard is a Magistrate as a leave. That the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. Also that the annexed papers with the said Newell Hubbard’s signatures are genuine as are his signatures. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name on this 30th day of January in the year 1846.
Norfleet D. Boggan, Clerk
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State of North Carolina
County of Anson
On this 11th day of July AD 1856, personally appeared before me, Hugh A Crawford, a Magistrate duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Elizabeth Massey, aged about ninety-five years a resident of Anson County in the State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Elias Massey who was a Soldier in the in the Revolutionary War[,] [serving in the] North Carolina Militia [under] General Greene’s Army. [Mr. Massey] was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse under General Greene as I have heard him say, in that Battle, Mr. Massey [noticed] a Little Soldier [who went up to him from behind and was preparing to kill him]. [Mr. Massey] looked round and told the Little Soldier not to shoot him. 
[Mrs. Massey] said [her] husband was in other Battles in South Carolina but the lapse of time and loss of memory deprives [her] of making any for statement of names and places, Robert Webb Esq took five of my husband’s discharges many years ago to procure an allowance for him, but soon after Mr. Webb died the papers cannot be found and [nothing more was due after] Mr. Massey died[.]
She further declares her first name was Elizabeth Gatewood and that she was married to said Elias Massey in Halifax County in said State by Col. Gee, a Magistrate in august after peace was made, and that her husband the aforesaid Mr. Elias Massey died on or about the 12th day of October AD 1827. She believes he served fifteen months, for whose service she claims Bounty land under the act granting additional Bounty land, to certain officers and soldiers, who have been engaged in the military service of the United States approved March the 3rd 1835. She also declares that she has never received a Land warrant, nor made application
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Only this one now presented, under any act of Congress she further desires to say. She made application for a Pension. Some Eight or ten years ago, but was rejected, though Proof of Service was sent to Commissioner of Pensions from Comptroller Office at Raleigh, North Carolina. 
In further support of her claim, she refers to her papers now on file at Washington City, made for pension in support of her present claim for Land Bounty that she is now a widow and has ever been since her husband’s death and no record exists of our marriage as efforts have already been made[,] [any] old documents having been destroyed to best of her knowledge. Except such proof as has been filed. Eight or ten years ago for Pension has had fifteen children by Mr. Massey, all dead but two of the oldest was living would be near seventy years old
S. B. True of Washington City. is authorized to prosecute this or any other claim, and Received a warrant, which may be issued thereon.
Elizabeth Massey
Sherwood Rushing and Elijah Rushing resident of Anson County State of North Carolina upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Massey in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statement of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that we have no interest in this claim, and not engaged in its prosecution.
Sherwood Rushing
Elijah Rushing
The foregoing Declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, and that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim and am not engage in its prosecution.
H. A. Crawford, Justice of the Peace
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Admitted for bounty land on traditional evidence considered as sufficient to establish 114 da's service 
Dodge
Feby [illegible]/6
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State of North Carolina
Anson County
I, Joseph White, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Hugh A. Crawford, before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to, is now and was at the time of witnessing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that due faith and credit is due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal (the official seal of this office of this Office) at [Illegible] this 15th day of July AD 1856.
Joseph White, Clerk
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State of North Carolina}
Union County}
Be it known that before me E Richardson Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Sarah Farmer and made oath that she is the daughter and only heir of Elizabeth Massey the identical person who is a pensioner and is now dead
and to whom a certificate of Pension was issued.  And that the pension certificate of 
said pensioner has been lost and after due
Search and inquiry therefore it cannot be presented that the following is a copy of the Original Pension Certificate Viz

Department of the Interior
Widows Pension

I certify that in conformity with the act of
Febry 21 & Elizabeth Massey Widow of Elias
Massey who was a private in the Revolutionary
War is inscribed on the Pension list at the
rate of Twenty three dollars 25 cents per annum Commencing on the 4th March 1848 and continuing for life unless she has again
marry in which case the pension is not payable
after the time of said marriage

SS Given at the Department of the Interior this the 6th day of June 1857
J. Thompson Secretary of the Interior

Examined & countersigned
Geo C. Whiting Commissioner of Pensions

That the deceased pensioner died
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intestate in the District of Lancaster and
State of South Carolina on the 11th or
12th day of October 1864 in which District she had resided for the space of some eight years not proceeding her death That the said pensioner had not at the time of her death intermarried but continued the Widow
of the above mentioned Elias Massey and that
neither she nor this affiant was for or against
against the Government of the United States
or in any manner encouraged the Rebels or
manifested a sympathy with the cause and
that the said pensioner was last paid her
pension according to the last information and
belief of affiant up to this 4th day of March
A.D. One thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty

That affiant is now and has been for the past two months a resident of the County North Carolina previous to which time for this
be your she was a resident of Lancaster District South Carolina, Her address is Morris Union County N Carolina.

Sworn to + subscribed before me 10 day of January 1867)

Sarah her X mark Farmer
E.W. Richardson JP

Also personally appeared Samuel H Hargett and Drucilla I Hargett residents of the County of Union and State of North Carolina persons to me well known and whom I certify to be legally respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly sworn say they were present and saw the above named Sarah Farmer sign her name to the foregoing
declaration that the above named Elizabeth
Massey was well known to them in the District of Lancaster aforesaid of which at the time of her death she was and had been for
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some eight years previous thereto a resident
living in the family of her daughter the said Sarah Farmer. That they were well acquainted with the said Sarah Farmer and that they know
her to be the daughter and only child of
the said Elizabeth Masse. That she is now
a resident of the County of Union to which
she removed from the District of Lancaster
some two months past, and that prior to
her removal and for 13 years immediately
preceding the same she was a resident
of the District of Lancaster S Carolina
during which said year the said Elizabeth
Massey lived in her family and was a member thereof at the time of her death. And they further sworn that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.

S. H. Hargett
D. P. Hargett

Sworn to and subscribed before me 10th day Janry 1867}
E.W. Richardson

I Sarah Farmer do solemnly Swear in the presence of Almighty God that I will henceforth faithfully support protect and defend the Court of the United States
and the Union of the States then under these
will in like manner abide by and faithfully
support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing Rebellion with
reference to the emancipation of Slaves. So help me God.

Sarah her X mark Farmer

Sworn to and subscribed for me 10 day of January A.D. One thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty
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Seven And I hereby certify that I have no interest in the prosecution of this claim

E W Richardson [JP is outlined]

Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Farmer a [illegible] sole of the County of Union and Stat  of North Carolina daughter and only child of Elizabeth Massey decd who was a pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel V Niles
of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful agent and attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Commissioner of Pension or an agent of the United States for paying pension the of said herein from the 4th day of March 1860 to the 12th day of October 1864 being the day of her death. Witness my hand and seal this the day [left blank ] of January 1867

Sarah her + mark Farmer [the word seal is outlined]

Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of}

S. H. Hargett E.W. Richardson JP
D. P. Hargett

State of North Carolina}
Union County}
Be it known that on the [left blank] day of January 1867 before the subscribed a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared the above named Sarah Farmer and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed.

I further certify that I have no interest in the
Execution of this claim.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above written

E. W Richardson JP
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State of North Carolina
Union County
I, J.C. Irby, Clerk of Union County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that B. W. Richardson whose signature to the foregoing affidavits is genuine was at the time of signing the same and is now an acting Justice of the Peace in an for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and his official acts entitled to full faith and confidence.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Office, this 13th day of April AD 1867.
J. C. Irby, Clerk
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No 12620
Elizabeth Massey
Widow of Elias Massey
Act 7 July 1838
Married before 1794
Husband died 1827
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This is to certify that I was personally acquainted with Elias Massey, who was reputed and believe to have been a Soldier of the Revolution. I have often heard the Massy related speak of his son and of several tours of duty he rendered to the United States and that he was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse under General Green [and] another officer whose names I don’t recollect [and that the said Elias Massey]  died on the 12 day of October 1827 and that Elizabeth Masses is his lawful wife and is 83 years of age and that this statement is entitled to full faith and credit upon oath.
Casper Hargett

Sworn to and Subscribed this 25 day of December 1845.
Newell Hubbard, Justice of the Peace

I certify that Casper Hargett, who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is entitled to full faith and credit upon his oath. Given under my hand [on the] same day the date as above.
Newell Hubbard, Justice of the Peace
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THE  NEW TESTAMENT  
[Illegible]
OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST:
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.
STEREOTYPE EDITION.
STEREOTYPED FOR THE BIBLE SOCIETY AT PHILADELPHIA,
By T. Rutt, Shacklewell, London
1812.
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7. Charlotte Massey, born January 27, 1793.
8. John Massey, born January 12, 1795.
9. Delilah Massey, born June 9, 1797.
10. Elias Massey, born August 19, 1799.
11. Prudence Massey, born April 27, 1800.
12. Sarah Massey, born April 19, 1801.
13. Temperance Massey, born September 2, 1803.
14. Berry Massey, born April 18, 1805.
15. James Massey, born April 18, 1807.
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Rev. War Section.
March 1, 1916.

Miss Adeline Crow,
400 West 118th Street,
New York City, N. Y.

Madam:
In response to your letter dated the twentieth, you are advised that in the papers in claim W. File No. 5,328, Rev. War, it is stated that Elias Massey was born, raised, and enlisted in Halifax County, North Carolina, and served five tours of three months each as a Private in the North Carolina Militia, under Captains Sharp and Eaves (or Reeves), and was in the Battles of Guilford, Camden, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs. 
The dates of enlistment and discharge are not stated. 
Elias Massey married in Halifax County, North Carolina, in the month of August, after peace was made, Elizabeth Gatewood who was born in Northampton or Halifax County.
He died October 12, 1827, and she was allowed pension for his services on her application executed December 25, 1845, while a resident of Anson County, North
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[Note: The firstborn child of the Massey was stated in the Affidavits of Elizabeth Massey and the Gordons as having never reached the ages of the last nine children. It could be that the first through sixth children probably died very young.]

Carolina, and eighty-five years of age.
They had fifteen children, of whom the last nine are the only ones whose names are stated, viz.
7. Charlotte, born January 27, 1793.
8. John, born January 12, 1795.
9. Delilah, born June 9, 1797.
10. Elias, born August 19, 1799.
11. Prudence, born April 27, 1800.
12. Sarah, born April 19, 1801.
13. Temperance, born September 2, 1803.
14. Berry, born April 18, 1805.
15. James, born April 18, 1807.

Elizabeth Massey died October 10, 1884, while residing in Lancaster District, South Carolina, with her daughter Sarah Farmer, who was made her sole heir in 1867, and a resident of Union County, North Carolina.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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Washington
December 17, 1851
Sir,
Enclosed herewith is some additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Massey of North Carolina, Act 7 July 1838.
Very respectfully,
William S. Allison
Commissioner of Pensins
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House of Representatives. 
January 28, 1851

Sir,
I herewith enclose additional claims of proof in the pension of the children of Samuel Pounds deceased and of Mrs. Elizabeth Massey, widow of Elias Masse. 
I wrote some time ago in relation to the claim of the children of George Hammond and Mrs. Winey Porter, widow of Solomon Porter deceased, but have received no answer.
May I ask your earliest attention to all the above cases and an answer as soon as practical.
Respectfully,
S. Deberry
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office
May 8, 1867

Sir,
In support of the claim of Sarah Farmer for arrears of pension in the of pension of Elizabeth Massey [Illegible], the affidavits of at least two credible witnesses should be filed in proof that does not in any manner encourage the rebels, nor manifest a sympathy with their cause. The date of death of pensioner should be on the pension certificate issued to Elizabeth Massey, [which] has not been returned and accounted for.
Respectfully
Samuel V. Niles, Esq.
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SAMUEL V. NILES,
ATTORNEY FOR CLAIMANTS,
No. 262 I Street,
(Between 17th and 18th Streets,)
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Washington,
June 19th, 1867
Hon. J. H. Barrett
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I file herewith the application for arrears of Pension of Sarah Farmer, daughter of Elizabeth Massey, a Revolutionary Pensioner.
Very Respectfully,
Samuel V. Niles
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SAMUEL V. NILES,
ATTORNEY FOR CLAIMANTS,
No. 262 I Street,
(Between 17th and 18th Streets)
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Washington,
June 19th, 1867
Hon. J. H. Barrett
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I file herewith as additional evidence in support of the claim for arrears of pension of Mrs. Sarah
Farmer, daughter of Elizabeth Massey, the affidavit of the claimant, setting forth the reason why she cannot produce the original pension certificate, together with proof of identity, which I trust may be regarded as satisfactory.
Claim filed April 20, 1867.
Very Respectfully,
Samuel V. Niles
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Claim for arrears of Pension of Sarah Farmer
Revolutionary
Letter to S. V. Niles
May 8.
Filed by S. V. Niles
Atty
Washington City
April 20 1867
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SAMUEL V. NILES,
ATTORNEY FOR CLAIMANTS,
No. 262 I Street,
Between 17th and 18th Streets,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Washington,
1867
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Monroe, North Carolina May 20th 1858
Commissioner of Pensions, US

Dear Sir
I am requested by the agent of Mrs. Elizabeth Massey alias Macey to enquire of you what was the amount of pension money allowed her on the claim of herself as widow of her husband a Revolutionary soldier. 
She got Mr. Casper Harget to have the business attended to for her, as she was old infirm and in her dotage and he employed a Mr. Neil M. Hubbard of White Stone P.O who professed to act as attorney for claim out and who exacted half of whatever was recovered as fees, for paying all expenses. Hubbard employed as his agent and attorney at Washington City Mr Blanchard True.  The claim was allowed & also a land warrant for 160 acres, I suppose there must have been allowed a pension for 6 mo. Service
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from 1836 to the date of the pension certificate which would be over $500. Mr Harget says that Mr. True came to see Mrs. Massey & got her to sign same papers, showing her money which he said was hers & said she must sign these papers before he could pay over to her. That there was a considerable quantity of money exhibited. That the Mr. True took the money & land warrant & left without paying anything & said he would send her money in a month. That he did afterwards send her $100 which is all she has ever received and as she is a weak minded & feeble woman she does not know what she signed. But thinks it likely that she has given thee receipts for the whole out of pension money & assigned the land warrant & that she has been taken in & fraudulently imposed upon & cheated out of her claim & warrant.
She wishes to know the amount received by her agents from the office & wishes further to know how she must proceed to rectify these errors? To have the land warrant delivered to her or cancelled & another issued in its place to her & to make Mr. True come to a true account & settlement
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or learn whether the pension office will tolerate such agents to prosecute claims handle their clients out of their dues. I write at the instance of Mr. Casper Harget who is the agent of Mrs. Elizabeth Massey.
You will please write to me at Monroe, North Carolina.
Very Respectfully,
Samuel H. Walkup, Attorney at Law
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Charlotte N.C.
July 12th, 1858

Hon. George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
At the request of the son in law of Elizabeth Massey on Macey, Widow of Elias, I write to know the lot of pension allowed to her and who the certificate was given to A man by the name of S. B. True (as was afterwards found out) called at old Mrs. Massey residence under an assumed name and got the old woman to sign some paper writing, promising to pay her the pension money due. Some week or two afterwards should be $100 and sometime afterwards
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She received another small sum and this is the last and only money she has received for his pension. He refused to give her land warrant up to her claiming it as a fee.
The friends of old Mrs. Massey desire to know what she was allowed per annum, and the amount due when allowed.
The agent who received the certificate and land warrant.
Your Obedient Servant,
W. H. Landon

George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
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Raliegh Get case (1) McCarley Pen Agt
[Stamped, oval, containing: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FEB 23 18 PENSION OFFICE]
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Pension Agency
Raleigh, N.C.
July 23rd 1849

Hon. C. C. C. Cox
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Sir,
On the 9th of March, I unfortunately paid to Sarah Farmer (Pension due Elizabeth Massey, deceased Act Feby 1848) One Hundred and Eighty Three 70/100 Dollars ($183.70) I should have paid her only Eighty Three 73/100 (1837) I cannot see how I made such a mistake, unless I mistook a part of the dollar mark to the left of the figure 8 – after making the Calculation) for a figure one, I have and every exertion to get Mr. Farmer to return the money but with no success. Her attorney Mr. McCauley, Esqr. of Monroe N.C. writes me that he has made any
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Effort to get her to refund it, but she positively refuses, He forwarded the pension vouchers to me and I forwarded the check to her through him, I blame him a good to the deal for not calling my attention error, It seems to me that he might have detected the error, as he is a man of good sense a lawyer, and attorneys for pensioners generally know the exact amount due, had it been an under payment, I am sure that I would not have been long in hearing of it, Mrs. Farmer writes me that Mr. McCauley Charged her Fifty Dollars $50) for his services, and this is one reason why she does not want to refund because she had to pay so much to get the money, not seem very clear to me that Mr. McCauley did discover my mistake, for could he have had the heart to charge this old woman $50 for collecting $83.70, or perhaps they both discovered it and agreed to go halves in the amount our paid. This would seem to be a reasonable supposition, But Mr. McCauley writes me that he did not charge her $50 now nothing approximating that amount, I have to trouble
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On with such business as this, but I do not feel able to lose one Hundred Dollars in this way, and I would be under many obligations if you would inform me if there is not some means by which this woman can be compelled to return the money, hoping you may find it convenient to give me an early answer.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
[Illegible] Belvins
Pension Agent
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Monroe, North Carolina
March 13th 1869

Hon Chris C. Cox

Sir, 
As you directed I called on Mrs. Farmer and made the demand which you suggested she stated that she did not have the money otherwise she would refund the Amount over paid at once. That this matter had given her more anxiety and caused her more [Illegible] than any other event of her life, and that she would not have had the thing to happen for three the money she drew.
That she was sorry she had ever made any application it. That the years immediately preceding the receipt of the money had been years of unusual scarcity and without a suspicion that a mistake had been made or that she had received more than her due, she had incautiously expended the money in paying off liabilities already incurred or in applying her these present necessities.
That she was poor, old, and infirm and was [Illegible] and asked to be advised as to the means to which she should resort to raise the money to make the restitution that she had not the slightest suspicion that she had drawn more than was her due until the matter was brought to her attention more than five months after the receipt of the money at which time it had been in the payment of her debts or in supplying her wants, that had the matter been brought earlier to her attention she could have made come pension for it, but not suspecting that there could be a mistake inasmuch as the agent had all of the papers including the original Certificate she had
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Gone on and a handed the money without a thought of being called upon to refund any part of it, and much more to the same effect. She was evidently much distressed and alarmed. I would add that she is very old, poor, and needy and that her prospects for raising the money are by no means flattering.
Please suggest by return mail for what the action I shall take.
Very Respectfully your obedient servant,
C. M. T. McCauley
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Washington D.C.
October 10th, 1846

Sir,
I herewith enclose to Your Honorable the application of Elizabeth Massey or Macy for Land Bounty under act of Congress 3 March 1855 and 1856.
Said Elizabeth is the Widow of Elias of State of North Carolina.
Please remit the Certify to my case present.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
S. B. True

Honorable Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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Washington D.C
May 20, 1857

Sir,
In the case of Elizabeth Massey, Widow of Elias Massey, claiming Revolutionary Pension from North Carolina. I herewith enclose the official Note of the Comptroller of North Carolina required by you in this Case.
I trust the Certificate will no longer be delayed in this case, which please transmit me in due time and oblige.
I am, dear Sir, your most obedient servant,
S. B. True

Honorably George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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Washington D.C.
January 27th, 1857

Sir,
In the case of Elizabeth Massey, Widow of Elias deceased of North Carolina, claiming a Revolutionary Pension. The said Widow now living, I pray you to reconsider the evidence on file in your Office with a view to allowance of her said claim.
For instance, notice her 3 Declarations which she has now made for said Pension and one for Land Bounty, which last has been granted her.
Each of these declarations was made [in] her very old age—at so many years from lack other—drawn for her by different individuals-- the last at some 40 miles from the place
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Where the former were made yet in this last for her Save the wonderfully remembers to recite nearly all the facts Stated in her former Declaration in that circumstance in particular that while her Husband, was firing in Battle the Short man who stood behind him and firing shots over his shoulders, scorched his hair, and the caution he gave him.
Such could not have been so tenaciously adhered to by her + aft repeated unless aft told her by him, Elias Massey.

Then please notice how each declaration is a transcript as it were of the former. Then how wonderful in detail for so aged a woman then how minutely in all particulars they conform to each other.

But his name was spelled Massey on the Comptroller’s Certificate. See one of the old papers
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On file in this case and by them it will be learned that his name was so called by his neighbors and himself. He was not a man of letters so others wrote his name as variously pronounced by the community. 
On this point I have abundant evidence to file when the case comes up besides shall file much more then if requested of another nature.

I am, Sir, most obediently, 
S. B. True
Agent in this case
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[Illegible]
Neal Hubbard, Esq. 
[Illegible]
Anson County, North Carolina
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State of North Carolina 
Mecklenburg County
We the undersigned do hereby certify that we were personally acquainted with Elias Money for many years before his death that we have often heard him speak of his services during the war of the Revolution under Gen Green & Gen Lincoln in Capt Sharps or Eaves or Reeves Company and was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse, and at the Eutaw Springs and Camden under these officers. We have no doubt but he served twelve months in actual service in said war [and] he has mentioned other officers names but we have forgotten them we understood him to say he was a militiaman and served in different tours of three months each and the names are among those he served under Mr. Masey was a man of fine character in Church and State, his widow is
yet having and is an old lady of good character and truth. We  have no doubt but that they were lawfully married and in their oldest children was now living they would be above sixty year of age of those facts we have no doubt, along before Mr. Massey death at dinner on the 4 of July he was cheerfully spoken of in praise as an old soldier by men who knew him and we believe he served his country faithfully in the Revolutionary War.
[Illegible]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of November A.D. 1857.
J. L. Hall, Justice of the Peace
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State of North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
I hereby certify that I was personally acquainted with Elias Massey for twenty five years before his death and the most of that time lived with him and often heard him tell troubles and the hardships he under and the different battles he was in and the officers he served under such as General Green and Lincoln and Captain Reaves or lives of have heard him that [Illegible].
Prudence Hargett

Sworn to and subscribed before me the Subscribing Justice this 12th Day of November in the year 1851.
Philemon Morris, Justice of the Peace

I certify that this Prudence Hargett is a Lady of good character and to be believed [Illegible].
Philemon Morris, Justice of the Peace
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State of North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
I, Brady Oates, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Philemon Morris and Samuel Hall before whom the foregoing paper was proved are acting Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, that the signature purporting to be theirs are genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to their official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my seal of Office at Charlotte this 13th day of November A.D. 1857
Brady Oates, Clerk of Mecklenburg Court
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File by S. B. True
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State of North Carolina
Anson County 
I, Joseph White, who first being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Elizabeth Mary widow of Elias Macey alia, Massey who was reputed to be a revolutionary soldier, and that I have been acquainted with her since the year 1813, and I further certify said Elizabeth Macy, alias Massey is still living or at least was a few days past, and I presence she still exist as I have not heard of her death.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of December AD 1856.
Nealy M. Hubbard
Joseph White

State of North Carolina
Anson County 
I, Joseph White Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Nealey M Hubbard before whom the above affidavit was made is and was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is given and that due faith and credit is due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Wadesborough this 29th day of December AD 1856 and in the year of American Independence.
Joseph White, Clerk
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6 Months 29+ days
$23.25
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller’s Office
I, George W. Brooks, Comptroller of the Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of Record in my office among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military Service in the Revolutionary War as follows:
Elias Massey 
[Illegible]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of my Office this 27th day of June 1855.
George W. Brooks, Comptroller
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Philemon Morris maketh oath that he is now in his eighty third year having been born on the 10th of November 1776, in the County of Mecklenburg, North Carolina where he has continue to reside ever since. That he was very well acquainted with Elias Massey or Macey as it is often spelled, and his wife Elizabeth, they resided in the same neighborhood with affiant, and it was very common with the righteous to spell the name Macy, in fact there was no regular way of spelling it, some would spell it Macey some, Masey and some Massey, but it was all intended for the same. Massey come near the sound of the name than any other spelling of it, and him it was a often spelled that way as any other.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of July 1855.
William Davidson, Justice of the Peace
Philemon Morris
And I hereby certify that Philemon Morris who made and duly sign the above affixed, is an old respectable citizen of this Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, has been chairman of the Court for many years. I have known him personally for more than forty years, he has always bore the character of an honest, reputable citizen and his statement is entitled to full credit. 
Given under my hand. 
William Davidson, Justice of the Peace
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State of North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
I, W. K. Reid, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for said County do certify that, Thomas Davidson, Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, is, and was at the date of signing the Same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature purporting to be his is given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said Court, at office in Charlotte this 30th day of July AD 1855.
W. K. Reid Clerk of Mecklenburg County Court
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1855
Nealy W. Hubbard
White Stone
North Carolina 
27 May

[Illegible]
N.C.A. Suspended
Act 1838
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White Stone, North Carolina 
27th May 1833
Sir, 
Some years ago. Mrs. Elizabeth Massy made a Power of Attorney to you or L. B. True to act for her for Revolutionary Service of her husband, Elias Massy. Her claim was sent to the department Some 4 years ago, if the power was to you say or if to L. B. True inform me, whether her claim has been allowed. Mrs. Massey has moved some 40 miles from here and is very old. Inform me [whether] her claim [has] been allowed, if not I will attend to it immediately. 
Nealy M. Hubbard

F. E. Hassler
Attorney for Claims
Washington City D.C.
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Elizabeth Massey
Elias N.C. Aug 1838
Cole
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Charlotte July 31st 1855,
Capt.  John Y. Brant
D Sir
Enclosed you will find an affidavit from an
old + highly respectable citizen of your
County which I hope will be fully
satisfactory to the Com of Pensions,

I know the witness myself and a more worthy old man does not exist. I have the at most confidence in any thing he says -

Elias is not a by Common name, and when a declaration is made by a widow claiming a
pension for the Revolutionary service of her husband whose name in Elias Massey
are the name of Elias Massey is found on the
Revolutionary Muster rolls, and is proven this is the ring the name was often spell in the same neighbourhood, where the deceased soldier and died it make a strong case-- which
I think the commission ought not to reject, particularly when the application is made by the poor old Widow herself who is still living=

Yours truly
W. F. Darruson

Capt Bryan
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Power of Attorney
Act July 7th 1838

To examine pension claim recently allowed Elizabeth Massey Widow of Elias of North Carolina.

P.M. Henry
Present
April 21 1858.
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Know all men by their presents that I, Nealy M. Hubbard, of Anson County North Carolina one of the agents and attorney, of Elizabeth Massey Widow of Elias Massy or Macy, whose claim for pension, under the act of Congress approved the 7th day of July 1838, was suspended & whose claim for Bounty Land, under act 3d March 1835, was also suspended, do hereby constitute & appoint Capt. P Henry of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name and place and with power of substitution, to examine all the records, letters, affidavit, & other documents, that will show the military service of the said Elias Massey or Macey all papers now on file at the department, and generally to do all lawful acts, and things whatsoever touching the premises, in order to prosecute said claim to some result, and to receive the certificate when issued confirming what soever my said attorney, shall in my name do legally, in the premises in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day of March 1838.
Nealy M Hubbard

Acknowledged and subscribed before me, P. J. Coppedge, Clerk of the aforesaid County and State aforesaid and I do certify that of my own personal knowledge the aforesaid Elizabeth Massey or Mary, is the widow of Elias Massey deceased, and that Nealy Hubbard, whose name appears to the above has been the Agent and Attorney of Mrs. Elizabeth Massey of Anson County, North Carolina for several years past.
P. J. Coppedge, Clerk
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February 7th 1824  Recd of Elias Massey 57 cents in full of his case for the year 1824
D L Rew
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November 26 1823 Recd of Elias Massey in full as a payment + [illegible] against him
George Gelson
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Nov 26th, 1823 Pension of Elias Massey Sixteen Dollars thirty-six Cents in full of a judgement [Illegible]
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Washington City
March 6th, 1836

Sir:
Enclosed herewith, please find, three several Receipts, taken by Elias Massey of North Carolina, from which it will be seen that various orthography was used in designating the man.
The design in this instance, is to reconcile this man's name with that given in the Cert of the Comptroller of North Carolina, relative to Revolutionary Service.
Respectfully your obedient servant,
John Y. Bryant

Honorable J. Minot
Commissioner of Pension
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Washington City
April 21, 1838
Sir,
I herewith enclose a Power of Attorney from N.M. Hubbard, Esq. of North Carolina, authorizing me to examine the claim recently allowed Mrs. Elizabeth Massey Widow of Elias of North Carolina under the Revolutionary Pension act of (perhaps ) July 7. 1838.
Mr. Hubbard represents that he was a joint Agent with L. B. True of the City in the prosecution of this claim, and that said True received the certificate and has not yet given him (Hubbard) any satisfactory account of the amount and allowed.
He requests a Statement of Amount allowed, and intimates that much dissatisfaction exists as to the manner in which True has acted to if practicable and consistent with the rules of your office.
I would be pleased to be informed as to the above.
Very respectfully,
P.M. Henry

George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
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Pension Office
February 24, 1857
Sir:
In answer to your letter of 27 ultime, I do not find on the files of this office any application for pension of Elizabeth Massey, widow of Elias deceased of North Carolina.
Have you not mistaken the State?
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
[Illegible], Commissioner

L. B. James, Esq.
Present
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Comptrollers Department,
Raleigh, North Carolina, May 15th 1857
Dear Sir,
I repeat what I have heretofore stated to you, that the original accounts upon which the two Indents in the Mary Case were issued, cannot be found in my office.
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
C.H. Brogden, Comptroller
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Restoration
6.426
Brief in the case of Elizabeth Massey, Widow of Elias Masset, Elias Massey,
Anson County and State of North Carolina
[Illegible]

CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
A pensioner on the roll of N Carolina at $25.25 per annum paid to March 4. 1861
[Illegible]
Oct 10. 1864 and claim is made by her only daughter heir for arrears of pension to date of death [Illegible].
The evidence shows, that Sarah Farmer is the only living heir her that she has been loyal [to the US during the American Civil War].
Pension Certificate last Registered June 25. 1867 to a pension of 23.25 for Annum Commencing March 4 1861 and terminating Oct 10. 1864, pole to Sarah Farmer only heir.
Name and residence of Agent.
S. V. Niles
262. J St. Washington D.C.

W. E. East
Examining Clerk.
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White Stone N.C. 22 April 1837
L B True atty for Claims Washington DC

Dr Sir yours of the 6th Febry Come to hand by due course of Mail, the contents was so odious So unfair So unreasonable. I have not replied. Two days ago yours of the 6 April Come to hand, it seems you are in your write mind, asking me what I am doing all his time, that if Id work we could make [illegible] & that you  better do rite + work, for it just what I have been at. I procured a written contract with
Mrs Massey + the heirs of Jacob Little one half to you failed to get written Cont from Mrs Hough.  I told you she was [illegible]. but say she will do it rite-  She would not give 1/2  but Ill try to manage her, send her, L W, to me
Say what you have done in her cases, is the Court of Claims a humbugg in her case, I  reccon I have I found some Good Cases, but you seem Slow in what I have sent why dont you haste + inform me accordingly I send
you by this mail the Affidavit asked for, if it is
to the point say so if not point out the defects + send it back + will rite it, on conditions you will stand up to me fairly less divide half + half
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to each of us, though if you are at extra trouble and expense, with N. C. Comptroller as you say you are I would not mind allowing that in the Settlement of her claim for nor no other. But I name my extra expenses I was out + you spurn at it, I am disposed to do rite in this matter + all others, I spare no expenses
nor trouble, do so too your self [illegible]
get the claim through if possible on fair terms

I can give a strong affidavit in her case if it
would be admisable, no mistake, her claim is a riteous one - Why dont you proceede on Mothers arrears - and Bryan (Alias) Obangan
I have them two cases, under my controll
mostly dont ridicule me no more for telling
you the truth, keep Cool + go ahead no scruplin on my part in additional allowance
to you for extras in any case Besides your half of the fee - if you refuse this let me withdraw the papers & I will go to the Commissioner my self or get another man be in haste Mrs Masy is dropsical continues in a Bloat

Yours with Respect
Sm Hubbard
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth, Widow of Elias Massey
Mecklenburg County and State of N. Carolina
Act July 7 1838
Record evidence of her husbands services, with which he is identified by Ammon tradition and by those who have heard him describe them and by the fact that the payments are in the Military District from which he has [Illegible]. 
Family Record of the date of Oath to the Marian priest 1784
[Illegible] general reputation of man [Illegible], his death in 1827 [and] the present widowhood proved by credible witnesses.

Name and residence of Agent
L. B. True, Esq.

[Illegible]
Examining Clerk.
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Pension Office
March 11. 1857

Sir: 

The additional evidence filed in support of the claim of Elizabeth Massey widow of Elias of N.C. for pension under the Act of 1838, is not
yet sufficient to identify her as the widow of the Elias Macy mentioned in the certificate of the Comptroller of N.C. dated June 27th 1855.

If the Comptroller has in his office the original accounts upon which the two indents mentioned in his certificate me issued, those accounts will furnish a history of the services rendered which will enable me to determine with more certainty the question of identity.

I am Very respectfully
Your Obt St
[illegible]
Commissioner

L. B. True Esq Present
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State of North Carolina,
Comptrollers Department.
I, C. H. Brogden, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Elias Massey who served in the Revolutionary War, in the N. C. Militia, was from the Halifax District, but the original Army day Rolls of the Revolutionary War are not in my office.
The Halifax District was composed of the Counties of Northampton, Halifax, Edgecombe, Martin, Warren, Franklin, and Nash but the Records in my office do not show in which of these Counties the said Elias Massey resided, at the time he entered the Military service in the Revolutionary War.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand this 7th day of April A.D. 1857.
C. H. Brogden, Comptroller
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Washington D.C
April 14th 1857

His Honor 
The Commissioner of Pensions

Dear sir, 
Enclosed please find the Comptrollers Certificate No. [Missing Text] in the case of Elizabeth
Massey, Claiming a Pension from North Carolina.
By the enclosed will be seen, that the Comptroller of N.C. has not [located] the original from which the Indents in this case were made up
But [as] the enclosed will be seen that Halifax Co. N.C. from which he originated and to which he returned again after the Revolutionary War and from which his wife also originated and to which they returned from Anson Co. there married him & then
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Returned again to Anson Co in which she still lives [and] in which he died that said Halifax County in which he originated & from which he served, is [now] in the Halifax District of the Revolutionary War from which District he was paid. 
It is worthy of notice that the Widow for this Pension Claim & Land Claim has made distinct Declaration that her 1st Declaration made in 1845. was ten years prior to her next Declaration & the Comptrollers Certificate & that her last declaration was made some 50 miles from the place of the first still from her great age one would suppose her incapable of remembering events.
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of the Revolutionary War still she narrates with the same
interest and exactness the circumstance of her husband while in Battle concerning the [“Little Soldier”] behind him blazing away at the enemy proper burning his whiskers a little strange this if he never served.
Notice then please the complete agreement of these several Declarations made, the last, when no trace of early recollections yet remain in her time worn and dilapidated memory.
A mass of Evidence with was filed in my last but not reported on.
Please transmit me the Certificate in this case & oblige
I am your most obedient servant,
L. B. True
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Washington D.C.
March 9th 1854 

His Hon
The Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
Enclosed I send you papers in the case of Elizabeth Massey, Widow of Elias Massey, for Revolutionary Pension  consisting of universal testimony of his Revolutionary Character or so we are told, papers in account with his friends are shown this name spelled by them as upon the Revolutionary Record which was spelled by others as pronounced, him not being able to write.
To Speak of the pertinency
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of the proof filed in this case would be to enumerate and collate contents of each deposition, so pertinent are each & complete as proof I would refer the Office if
permitted to that [“Little Soldier”] as many as 3 Declarations made in this case & in her land application, who stood behind her husband, [during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse], That over the head of Massey was concerned not to burn his whiskers in firing, by Massey [himself].
This little incident so strongly marked in the old lay’s memory goes far to show he was the man by that name who did serve, then I think the Certificate from North Carolina Shows that the many who served was from the same County.
[Illegible]
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But I meant to have written but a word as such a case as this.
There are some more of the old papers on file in this case showing his name spelled Macy.
That his name was variously pronounced these can be no doubt from fact in the case.
Please direct the Certificate to me present.
I am your most obedient servant, 
S. B. True
Agent in this case
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April 4, 1846
Elizabeth Massey
North Carolina
Additional evidence
W. S. Allison
Present
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State of North Carolina
Halifax County
I, William W. Daniel, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Halifax and State aforesaid do hereby certify that after due and diligent search and a careful examination of the records of my office I find no marriage or License Bond for the Marriage of Elias Massey and Elizabeth Gatewood, nor does there appear of Record any marriage or License Bond whatever of as old a date as seventeen hundred and eighty three or four. 
In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of my office at office this 13th day of January 1846.
William W. Daniel, Clerk
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State of North Carolina
County of Anson

Be it known that before me H. A. Cranford a
Justice of the peace duly authorized and commissioned to administer oaths, personally came Plura Gordon, Vincent Parson, John D Green, Sherwood Rushing Regis Rushing Elijah J Rushing and James Hubbard and made oath in due form of law. that they personally knew Elias Masy often called Macy + so spelled
 who died some time in 1827 + with his 
Widow Elizabeth Masy, who still survives as his
Widow, that he was ever regarded & believed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier in the North Carolina militia and to have so served during most of that war that such was + is the prevailing opinion of this whole community among the more aged, that many say that he served under Gen Green and was at the
Battle at Guilford Court house, under Capt Sharp + Capt Davis, as well as other Battles, that they have no interest in any claim for his said Revolutionary Service

Plura her X mark Gordon aged 84
Vincent Parson aged 67
John D Green aged 59
Sherwood Rushing aged 43
Kezzia her X mark Rushing aged 42
Elizabeth her X mark Rushing aged 36
James Hubbard aged 58

Sworn to and Subscribed this [blank] day of Sept 1856

 H. A Cranford JP
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I certify that the persons names who appear to the within certificate reside and are citizens of this County and the utmost reliance and confidence may be placed in their word and testimony

H A Crawford JP

State of North Carolina
Anson County I Joseph White Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify Hugh A Crawford before whom the foregoing
affidavit was sworn to, is now and was at the time of signing his name an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Anson that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
and that due and credit is due to his official acts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office at  Wadesborough this 10th day of September AD 1856 and on the 81st year of American Independence.

J. White Clk

I hereby certify that I was formerly acquainted with Elias Masy alias Masey about the year 1813 and for several years thereafter that I am now acquainted with his Widow Elizabeth Massey a very old lady still living that Elias Massey was regarded as a soldier in the Revolutionary I have no exact recollection how he signed his name he was generally Massey 
and I find his name in olden times on me sometimes Masy and at others Massey paper +reference in the same

J White clk

[Left margin of document] Per S. B. True Present
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County of Anson
State of North Carolina
On this 21 day of April 1837, before me Hugh A. Crawford, a Justice of the Peace duly authorized and commissioned by law to administer oaths in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Plura Gordon aged 86 years, and made oath in due form of law, that She became acquainted with Mr. Elias Massey of Halifax County, soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, my Sister Elizabeth Gatewood, went from here to Halifax County, to see her relations there and after peace was made she and Mr. Massey return to my fathers house in Anson. Sister Elizabeth went to Halifax a Single Girl, there he met with said Elias Massey just discharged from the army of the North Carolina forces, and married him. Mr. Massey was born and raised in Halafax County, and there entered the Service in the Revolution war as I have ever understood I have heard him speak of times of this fact, that he was originally from Halifax after he come here he lived all the time to his death near [Illegible], to visit us, and for some time he lived in less than half a mile of Sister Elizabeth & Mr. Massey live together as man & wife till his death, lived at several places not more than 35 or 40 miles distant at no time since they come from [Illegible] to Anson.
I have no earthly interest in any claim now pending, for his Revolutionary services. 
Sworn to & Subscribed day & date above given.
H. A. Crawford, Justice of the Peace
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Mrs Plura Gorden who has sworn and subscribed to the within certificate is a Lady of high sanding She has resided long in this Neighbourhood, is member of the Baptist Church and exemplary Christian in a word I can say all for Mrs Gordon that could be said for any Lady and the utmost reliance can be placed all statements

H A Crawford JP

We the undersigned do certify that this very same Elias Masy  Spilled Macy whose widow sets up a claim for Pension + Bounty Land, originated from Halifax County N Carolina
and it is the universal opinion here, especially among the more aged of this fact we have no doubt, we have no whatever in any  claim Sworn to and subscribed day & date above given

H A Crawford JP
Sherwood Rushing [the word seal is circled]
John D Green [the word seal is circled]

I am Well acquainted with Capt John D
Green and Sherwood Rushing whose has
qualified to the above certificate are both
men of high standing and utmost confidence may be placed in the Statements

H A Crawford JP

State of North Carolina}
Anson County} I Joseph White Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Hugh Crawford who witnessed the affidavit of Plura Gordon, Sherwood Rushing and John D Green as appears on this paper is now and was
at the time of signing his name an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, that the signatures purporting to be his is genuine and that due faith and credit is due
to her official acts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Wadesborough this 22d day of April AD 1857 and in the 81st year of American
Independence

J White Clk
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July the 11th 1822
Then Received of Elias Mary six Dollars and thirty Cents by M. Joseph Starns.
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One day after date I promise to pay [Illegible] part of [to] James G. Blair the just and full sum of [Illegible].
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One day after I promise to pay John Irwin the sum of fore dollars it being for value received as witness my hand and sale.
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400 West 118th Street
New York City
February 20th 1916
Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.

In trying to trace my record to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, I find that my great, great grandfather was a Massey, who fought in the Revolution, and drew a pension. After his death his wife Elizabeth [Illegible]
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Drew the pension. She lived be a hundred years old. They were from hear the old Waxhaw Settlement, possibly from Lancaster District, South Carolina. I want to know his name, regiment, rank, and all information you can possibly give me concerning him. 
Sincerely yours,
Miss Adeline Crow
400 West 118th Street
New York City
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There are two Eliaabeths in the files, it certainly is not Elizabeth widow of Charles Massy of Va she was named Davis and they did not live in S.C.

but I would send the other in spite of the fact that her name was Gatewood because she lived in Lancaster Co. S.C. + lived to be very old. it is Elias Massey N.C. W5328
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Elizabeth Massey
N.C.
July 1838
Let. Hon. E. Debeny
May 8,  1857
Let. W. F. Davidson Aug 8 1858
John A. Bryant July 16, 1855
S. B. True Mar 11. 1857
True May 6, 1857
True June 4, 1857 

July 7, 1838
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53.752
No Answer
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9.6695
North Carolina
Elizabeth Massey
Widow of Elias, who was a Private in the Revolution.
Inscribed on the Roll at the Rate of  23 Dollars 25 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of June 1857 and sent to L. B. True.
Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843 and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book H, Vol. 1, Page 166
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Elizabeth Massey
Widow of Elias Massey
North Carolina
Suspended
See papers
L. B. True
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11.860
North Carolina
Elizabeth Massey, widow of Elias who died in 1827, who was a Private in the Revolution for 6 months and 29 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Fayetteville at the rate of 23 Dollars 25 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of June 1857 and sent to 
L. B. True
Present
Arrears to the 4th of [Blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [Blank]
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by G. T. Getty
Book H., Vol. 1, Page 144
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1916 March 1. History to
Miss Adeline Crow 

Revolutionary WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5328

Elizabeth Massey
Widow,
Elias Masse
Private, Revolutionary War
---
Act: [Illegible]
Index:--Vol. M, Page 2
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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State of North Carolina
County of Anson
On this 12 day of December 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace duly authorized and commissioned as such Clara Gordon, John D. Green and Sherwood Rushing of the above State and County, and made oath in due form of law that in the case of the widow of Elias Massey, claiming a Revolutionary pension [and] Land Warrant, in light of her said husband Revolutionary Services, there is transmitted to be filed in said Claim herewith certain old and given papers constituting a portion of the business transactions of said Elias Massey with his neighbors that this are well known to be genuine, and to be authentic here, and the same can be well attested, if desired, of which date July 11th 1822 and other August 22 1821 with the name Macey, Masey or Massey upon them, which name was differently spelled as above and further, that the above name Elizabeth Massey declared in our presents that these
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papers were genuine that she knew the people whom her said husband had business transactions with and that her said husband in other times was called Macey and that this is the identical widow of the identical Macey, Masey, or Massey, who die on or about 12 October 1827 and that we have no interest in his Claim.
Clara Gordon
Sherwood Rushing
John D. Green

Sworn to and subscribed the day and date above given before me.
H.A. Crawford

The undersigned would further certify I am well acquainted with Clara Gordon, Sherwood Rushing and John D. Green that they are persons of well-known respectability and that full reliance may be placed on their testimonies. 
December 12th, 1854
H. A. Crawford
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State of North Carolina
Anson County  
I, Joseph White, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Hugh A. Crawford before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, that the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that due faith and credit is due to his official acts. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Wadesborough this 22 day of December AD 1856 and in the 81st year of American Independence
Joseph White, Clerk
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Elizabeth Massey
Widow of Elias
North Carolina
Admitted July 7, 1838
6 months & 29 days per annum $23.20
A year from 4 March 1836

S. B. True
Present
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6.426
North Carolina
Elizabeth Massey, widow of Elias Massey, who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 25 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of June 1857 and sent to S. B. True.
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 194
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Elizabeth Massey
North Carolina 
To see papers filed December 9 1852
L. B. True Attorney 
Claim not yet allowed is made by the widow.
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Know all men by these presents that I Elizabeth Massey of the County of Anson
and State of North Carolina do hereby constitute + appoint L. Blanchard True of
Washington City D.C. my true + lawful attorney for me + in my name to examine all papers filed in any department office of government upon which a pension ought to be granted on account of the services of
my husband Elias Massey and to obtain by all lawful means any and all that may be due me by virtue of my husbands services in Gen Green & Gates, brigade in Capt Sharps & Eaves or Reeves Company of Militia in forces of the United States and good + sufficient reasons do hereby revoake &+cancel all
any other powers of attorney & authority, which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes + I do hereby vest the same in said attorney herein appointed Said L. Blanchard True

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of July 1832

Elizabeth her X mark Massey [the word seal is circled]

in presence of S M Hubbard JP

State of North Carolina}
Anson County}

on this 26 day of July in the year AD 1832 personally appeared before me  A D Hubbard one of the acting Justices of the peace in +
for the County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Massey, widow of Eias Massey and Subscribed to the above, and acknowledge the above power of attorney to be her free act & deed, for the purposes therein mentioned
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made oath in due form of law, that she is personally interested as the lawful widow of Elias Massey in said claim, and I further certify that she is personally known to me to be the Identical individual represented

AMD Hubbard JP [the word seal is circled]

State of North Carolina}
Anson County}

I, Norfleet D. Boggan, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that A M. Hubbard is a Magistrate as above duly commissioned and qualified and that due faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name at Wadesboro this 9th day of August A.D. 1852

Norfleet D. Boggan, Clerk

Elizabeth Massy of N. Carolina
to see papers
Filed Dec 9th/52
L.B. True atty
claim not yet allowed
is made by the widow
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State of North Carolina, Anson County
Court of please and Quarter Sessions 
January 1851
Personally appeared in open Court. Mrs. Elizabeth Massey aged 89 years, a resident of the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn, doth on her oath make the following amended Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress 7th July 1838 & Act 23 August 1842 or act 2d February 1848 granting half pay and pension to certain widows, she states she is the widow of Elias Massy who was reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war and from the account given by Mr. Massey in his lifetime he was a volunteer called out by the authority of the United States and went into service under Gen Green & Gen Lincoln in Capt. Sharp and Capt. Eaves or Reaves, company of Militia as a Private, was a private under the officer was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse from the circumstance of the Little Soldier husbands have [encountered] in the time of the Battle and that Mr. Massey so looked round & told the Little Soldier not to shoot him. It seems he then was marched to South Carolina or Georgia in Green or Lincolns army, was in the Siege of Ninety Six, then of the Soldiers eating nothing for three days but parched corn, another place called [Motts?] and the Eutaw Spring Battle he has often talked & was probably then and other up & down of his standing sentry as well as other officers names, but the loss of memory & lapse of time deprives me thereof the circumstance of Robert Webb Esq a number Elect from Richmond County North Carolina to the State legislator to procure an allowing for Mr. Massey, by virtue of his five discharges which my husband had in his possession which he had Reed from his officers of the Army. But Mr. Webb shortly afterwards died & we move away from there and Mr. Massy died soon afterwards we have made some effort to find them among Mr. Webbs old papers, but his Executors or Administrators is all dead & gone & the discharges cannot be found. I am willing to receive such pension as the government will allow
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She further declares that her first name was Elizabeth Gatewood and was born in Northampton County in said State and was married there in the month of August after peace was made to Elias Mosses at one Thomas Glover, by Col. Lee a magistrate & that her hundred died October the 12th day 1827 that she was married to him before January 1st 1794 to wit at the time above stated we move about as I have stated in a former declaration until we got to Anson County where I now reside with an only sister. I have had fifteen children by Mr. Massey and all is no more but three of my older was living it would be 60 yrs of age, the youngest has been married twice many years ago. The Bible kept by us of our children’s ages has long since been destroyed having had our house burned & everything we had only the clothes we had on that she believes her husband served five tours of duty of three months each, being fifteen months of actual service called out by the authority of the United States for which I claim a pension she cannot specify the different what officers commanded more than she has in Capt. Sharps & Capt. Eaves Company in Gen Greens & Gen Lincoln army. She believes by what her husband has said about his services in the war that he served fifteen months [across] five tours of duty in Lincoln & Green’s armies.
Elizabeth Massey

Sworn to and subscribed [and approved of accordingly] this 13th day of January 1851.
Miles W. Maske, Justice of the Peace

State of North Carolina
Anson County
I, Norfleet D. Boggan, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Miles W. Maske is the Chairman of our said Court and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that due faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name at Wadesboro this 13th day of January 1851.
N. D. Boggan, Clerk
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I, W. K. Reid, Clerk of the County Court for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Casper Harget before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was at the date of the same, and is now, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, and the name thereunto subscribed is signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office, this 22nd day of May A. D. 1855
W. R. Reid, Clerk of Mecklenburg County
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State of North Carolina
County of Mecklenburg
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Elizabeth Massey, of the County of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina do hereby constitute and appoint William F. Day as my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Elias Massey for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension, that may be due hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable to Elizabeth Massey to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises; and revoking any and all other Power of Attorney that may have heretofore made in relation to this claim.
Witness my hand and seal this 14th day of May A. D. 1855
Elizabeth Massey

Signed and sealed in the presence of
Samuel Yandel
Hall M. Hargett

STATE OF North Carolina
County of Mecklenburg
ON THIS 17 day of May A. D. 1855 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Elizabeth Massey widow of Elias and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
Casper Hargett, Justice of the Peace
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[Printed document with no entries]

STATE OF ___}
COUNTY OF ___} ss.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me ___
that ___ was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ ___ per annum and that ___ died on the ___ day of ___ eighteen hundred and ___leaving surviving ___
and that ___ the only surviving child ___ of the aforesaid.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this ___
day of ___ one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
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Revolutionary Pension Claim of Elizabeth Massey, Widow of Elias, North Carolina
Letter to M. Thompson
Present
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Elizabeth Massey, of the County of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina do hereby constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, Esq., of Washington City, D.C., as my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension, that may be due hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this tenth day February A. D. 1853.
Elizabeth Massey
Signed and sealed in the presence of
John Ratchford

State of North Carolina
County of Mecklenburg
On this tented tenth day of February A.D. 1853, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Elizabeth Massey and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
Casper Harget, Justice of the Peace
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I, Brady Oates, Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Casper Harget before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscriber is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this 15th day of February A.D. 1853
Brady Oates, Clerk
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{Printed document with no entries]

STATE OF ___ }
COUNTY OF ___ }

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me ___ that ___ was a Revolutionary ___ of the United States at the rate of $ ___ per annum, and that ___ died on the ___ day of ___ eighteen hundred and ___
leaving surviving ___  and that___ the only surviving child ___ of the aforesaid.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this ___
day of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-___

NOTE. -- If the original Claimant or person in whose right the claim was made, be dead, then there is no use for the above certificate, but simply the power of attorney. But if he or she (as the case may be) be dead, then the exact period of his or her death must appear. If the widow execute the power of attorney it must also appear when the marriage took place, and that she is still a widow. If there
be neither father nor mother, the period of the marriage, and of the death of each, must appear and also, the name or names, of the surviving child or children. If, he, or she, (as the case may be) was a pensioner, state that fact, and also the amount received per annum; but if a claimant merely,
state that fact.

The above certificate must be executed by the Clerk of the Court under his seal of office.
A.S. Wallace
Yorkville,
S.C.
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OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
I, Sarah Farmer a pensioner of the United States, do solemnly Swear that I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear true faith, allegiance, and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution, or law of any State Convention or Legislature to the contrary notwithstanding; and, further that I do this with a full determination, pledge, and purpose, without any mental reservation or evasion whatsoever; and, further, that I will well and faithfully perform all the duties which may be required of me by law:
So help me God.
Sarah Farmer
Two witnesses when mark is made.
S. H. Hath
D. P. Hargett

State North Carolina
County of Union

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 30 day of May, 1869
E.W. Richardson
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State of North Carolina 
Anson County
This may certify that I am the Son of Elias Massy and Elizabeth his wife and on the fifth child as my parents have told me and that the Bible hereunto annexed in the family Register kept by my part of their children’s ages as is in the handwriting of John McCall. the first Bible having long since been destroyed that this is a true transcript done in father lifetime accept Six of the first children that I have heard father talk of his services rendered to the United States during the war of the Revolution. That he was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse in Gen Green’s army, that he was in hearing of the guns when Charlestown was taken by the British on his way there and other circumstances and places as well as other battles he was in but his officers names places & dates I do not recollect. I have heard my father speak of his discharges from the service & I believe from his narration he may have served fifteen months at least & that he died on the 12 day of October 1827.
John Massey

Sworn and subscribed this 16 day of January 1846
M. Hubbard, Justice of the Peace

I certify that John Massey who has exhibit the Bible which contained the leaf hereunto annexed is the son of Elias Massey & Elizabeth his wife and that the leaf was cut of the Bible in my presence & that he is a man of known respectability.  Given under my hand the day & date above.
M. Hubbard, Justice of the Peace
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Claim for arrears of Pension of Mrs. Sarah Farmer
Additional Evidence
Filed by S. V. Niles
Getty
Washington City
June 19 1867
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State of North Carolina
County Union 
Be it known that before me E. W. Richardson, Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Union aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Sarah Farmer to me well known and made oath in due form of Law in addition to what she has heretofore sworn that the original certificate issued to her mother Elizabeth Masey widow of Elias Massey dated Department of the Interior the 6th day of June 1857 was in the possession of L.B. True of Washington D.C. as late as the 4th day of March 1860. That the said True was the agent of her mother in prosecuting and collecting her pension and that affiant does not believe that the said certificate was ever after that time restored to her mother. The affiant has made the more diligent search among the papers and effects of her mother and also the most diligent inquiry abroad without being able to find it - That her information is that True is dead and that the certificate cannot be found after most thorough search among his papers and effects by his representatives. That her mother entertained a copy of the original certificate and that the copy which accompany affiants application heretofore forwarded is in the exact words and figures of the original certificate. Affiant further swears that her Mother Elizabeth Massey departed this life [Illegible] and unmarried in the
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District of Lancaster and State of South Carolina on the 10th day of October 1864.
Sarah Farmer
Sworn to and subscribed  before me the day of May A D 1867.
E.W. Richardson

State of North Carolina
County of Union
Be it known on this 30th day of May AD 1867 before me E. W. Richardson Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Union aforesaid personally appeared Samuel H. Hargett and D. Hargett, I being duly authorized to administer oath and made oath in due form of law, that they are well acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Farmer whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit dated the 30th day of May AD 1867 and whom they saw sign the same by making her mark thereto and also swim thereto. That she is the only daughter and child of Elizabeth Massey deceased who was the widow of Elias Ellery deceased and who was a Revolutionary pensioner. That they were well acquainted with Farmer both before the breaking out of the rebellion and during its continuance and that she continued loyal to the Constitution and Government of the United States and never encouraged the rebels or manifested any sympathy with their cause. 

They further swear that they were well
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acquainted also with the said Mrs. Elizabeth Massey the mother of the said Sarah Farmer. That she was a resident of Mecklenburg County in the State of North Carolina until the year 1857 when he removed to the District of Lancaster in the State of South Carolina and became a member of the family of her daughter the said Mrs. Sarah Farmer with whom she continued to live until her death. That the said Elizabeth Massey died intestate and unmarried in the District of Lancaster and State of South Carolina on the 16th day of October AD 1844 at the advanced age of about one hundred years.
They further swear that the said Elizabeth Massey like her daughter never aided, abutted or encouraged the Rebel or in any manner manifested sympathy with their cause. 
They further swear that they know the fact to be that the said Elizabeth Malley deceased was a pensioner of the Federal Government. That affiant Samuel H Hargett assisted on different occasions in preparing and forwarding the papers for drawing her pension and as her agent received and collected the checks that were returned an answer thereto.
They further swear that the original pension certificate as late as the 4th day of March 1861 was in the possession of L. B. True of Washington (District of Columbia) who was the agent of the said Mrs. Elizabeth Massey in prosecuting her claim and collecting her pension. That the affiants with other persons have assisted Mrs. Sarah Farmer making the most
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Thorough reach among the papers and effects of the said Elizabeth Massey and instituting the most active inquiry abroad verbally and by letter for the recovery of said certificate. That they believe that it never was returned to her by True to Elizabeth Massey. That they learn that True is dead and that after thorough search among his papers and effects by his representatives no trace of it can be found and affiants believe that the same is lost beyond recovery.
Affiants further swear that the said original certificate, a copy whereof which affiants swear to be perfect and true, was retained by the said Elizabeth Massey, is in the following words and figures Viz:

Department of the Interior
Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the Act of Febry 2nd 1848 Elizabeth Massey widow of Elias Massey who was a Private in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the
Pension List at the rate of Twenty three Dollars and twenty five cents per annum commencing on the 4th day of March 1848 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department the Interior this the 6 day of June 1887.
Examined & countersigned.
George C. Whitney
Commissioner Pensions
J. Thompson
Secretary of the Interior

D. P. Hargett
S. H. Hargett

Sworn to & subscribed before me the 30th day of May 1867.
E.W. Richardson, Justice of the Peace
I certify that I have no interest in the prosecution
of the claim
E.W. Richardson, Justice of the Peace
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State of North Carolina
Union County
I, J. E. Irby, Clerk of the Union County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that E. W. Richardson whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace for said County duly Commissioned & Sworn and his official act entitled to full faith & confidence I further certify that S. Hargett & D. P. Hargett whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavits of themselves and also as witnesses to the foregoing affidavits of Mrs. Sarah Farmer are worthy & loyal citizens of unexceptional character and that they are entitled to confidence.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of
said Court at Office this the 8th June AD 1867.
J.E. Irby, Clerk
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Filed for L. B. True
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State of North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
Be it known, that before me William McComb, a Justice of the Peace, duly authorized and commissioned to administer oaths, personally came Casper Hargott, Samuel Yandle, Mathew McCall, James H. McCall and John McCall and made oath in due form of law, that they personally know Elias as often called Massey and so spelled, who died some time in 1827, and with his widow Elizabeth Massey, who still survives, as his widow, that he was ever regarded and believed to have been a revolutionary Soldier in the North Carolina Militia, and to had served the most of that war, that such was, and is the prevailing opinion of this whole community among the mare aged that many say he served under Gen. Green and was at the battle at Guilford Courthouse, under Capt. Sharp and Capt. Eaves, that they have no interest in any claim for his said Revolutionary Services
Sworn to and subscribed this 26 September 1836.
William McComb, Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the persons whose names appear above and that they are credible persons. Given under my hand this 26 day of September 1836. 
William McComb, Justice of the Peace
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State of North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
I, W.K. Reid, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for Said County, do certify that Thomas McComb, whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly Commissioned and sworn, and that his signature is in his own proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at office in Charlotte this the 2 day of Sept. AD 1856.
W. K. Reid, Clerk