Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,749, Levi Glass, N.C.
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N.C.    Glass, Levi               S.10.749
                                          B.L. Wt. 71212-160-55
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                               32.933
Alabama
Levi Glass [water damage] Glass [rewritten]
in the state of Ala
who was a private in the [left blank] commanded
by Captain [struck out: Radford] Hadley of the [left blank] commanded 
by [left blank] in the N. C. 
for 11 mo 14 days

Subscribed on the Roll of Ala (Mobile)
at the rate of 38 Dollars 30 cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Oct
1851 and sent to J. Bryan of Ala
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending Present

Dup [illegible] issued
Nov. 11, 1851

Let. Neille McPherson
Oct. 8/56
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183.315            Act March 3 
                               July 3

Levi Glass
71.212 Issued September 8th 57

Reviy. War
Ala June 32-32933
[illegible] Sept 26/57

Neill McPherson
Knox Hill Flo.


Let. Neill McPherson June 12/86
"  " Augs 27/86
" " May 20/57
Exd Partes
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No. 38.191
Levi Glass Pensions 
Ala
 7 June 1853

From Shorter Brother Eubanks Ala
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State of Alabama }
County of Barbour }

On this the nineteenth day of April Eighteen Hundred fifty-one, personally appeared before me M. B. Wellborn a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, Levi Glass, now a resident of Barbour County Alabama, aged  Eighty-seven year, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, or oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain a pension under the existing pension laws of the United States.
That he, the said Levi Glass was a private in the company commanded by Captain Joshua Hadley, in the batallion of Major Robert Raiford, and regiment of volunteer infantry commanded by Colonel Little - alias Litel - alias Leightle (applicant not knowing how to spell the Colonel's name) under General Greene in the war of the revolution between the U. S. and Great Britain of 1776 - that he volunteered at Fayetteville North Carolina in January A. D. 1782 for the period of Eighteen months - marched to Wilmington, and thence to the Ashley River in South Carolina, and joined the forces under General Green under preperation for an attack upon the British then in the Charleston from Ashley River appoint was marched to James' Island near Charleston, where he was honorably discharged in March or April A. D> 1783 - having served thirteen or fourteen months. 
Levi GLass
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, as witness my hand and seal.  M. B. Wellborn  J. P.
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The State of Alabama  }
 Barbour County  }

Known all men by these present, that I, Levi Glass, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these present do make, constitute and appoint Shorter & Brother, Attorneys at Law, at Eufaula Alabama, my agents and attornies in fact, to demand and receive for me & in my name of the Government of the United States whatever [illegible] or sums of money be due me as a pensioner made my of the existing laws of the U. States.
  Given made my hand and seal this the 19th day of April A. D. 1851
Levi Glass     (seal)
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The State of Alabama Barbour County
I William R Cowen Judge of the Court of Probate & in aforesaid County & Ex. - Officer Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Records and Seal of Said Couty do hereby certify that M. B. Wellborn whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates is no and was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in the said County duly Commissioned & qualified according to the Law and that full faith & end it should be given to all his acts as such and that his signature is genuine.

Given under my hand & seal
of Office, this 26 day of April A. D. 1851
W R Cowen Judge of Probate
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183.315
Levi Glass 
Declaration for Bounty Land



Neill McPherson
Attorney
Knox Hill 
Walton County
Florida
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State of Florida}
County of Holmes}
  On this 26th day of April, A. D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Levi Glass, aged 91 years, a resident of Holmes County in the State of Florida, who being sworn according to Law, declares that he is the identical Levi Glass who was a private in the Company commanded by Joshua Hadley in the Regiment of 
Commanded by Col. Litle in the Revolutionary War between the United States of America and Great Britain that he enlisted in the State of North Carolina on or about the last of December 1781 for the term of Eighteen months and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen days, that he has never made application for bounty land under this act nor any other act of Congree and [inserted: that he has never] received a land warrant.  He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved the 3d day of March, 1855. He also declares that he has never applied nor received, under this or any other act of Congress, any bounty land warrant.  
Levi {his mark} Glass

We Daniel Neel of Walton County and Seaborn Kelly residents of Holmes County in the State of Florida upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Levi Glass in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be. 

Daniel Nell
Wm J. Glass

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.  
James Grush J. P. 


State of Florida   }
County of Holmes  }
      I, Major H. Stanly, Clerk of the Circuit County within and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that James Grush, whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing Certificate, is, and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Piece within and for said County, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. 
Given under my hand and seal of Office, done at office in Bearpen Bluff this Twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1851 Major H. Stanley Clerk
 C.C.H.C.
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[Handwritten in corner: Rev War]

10749
INVALID.
File No. 10,749
Levi Glass
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol A, Page 144

[Arrangement of 1870]
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71.212

160 Acres
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No 38.191

Levi Glass

Ala:

Act 7th June 1832

To Shorter & Brother July 22nd 5[cut off]
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Levi Glass
Ala
Act 7 June 32

11 mo. 14 days pn $38.30 per an:

Cut to [crossed out] Shorter
J. Bryan of Ala Present
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Levi Glass [handwritten sideways]
Mc 
Boynton

Envelope Marked Official Business
G. C. Whiting Esq.
Commissioners of Pensions
City of Washington D. C.
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Levi Glass
Oct 20th 56

Addl Envelope

C. H. Rhett
Knoxhill Walton Co, Fla
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[Envelope]
Additional evidence in the case of Levi Gass for County Land [in top left corner]

Official Business Free [in top right corner]

Knox Hill Fla July 22nd

J. Minot Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, District of Columbia 

Levi Glass Ala June 23
Book E. Vol E P. 45
Boynton [written sideways on left side]
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Look Attn: Case he is [illegible] in 55 

Boynton [signature]
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Levi Glass - Pvt
No. Car. Line - 

Georgia
 Ad Ind File No 10,749

Evidence insufficiency
Act 1820 [partially obscured by fold]
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1828 papers to be filed with ad ocu inv 
File #10,749
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Neill McPherson Attorney
Knox Hill 
Walton County
Florida
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State of Florida
Holmes County 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Levi Glass, and after having been duly sworn according to law says, that he is a pensioner of the United States under the act of 7th June 1832: that the number of his certificate as pensioner is 32.933.  That he is paid at the agency at Mobile Alabama, Semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me, this 17 day of 
September 1856.
Albert R Parish C. P.   Levi [his mark] Glass

State of Florida
Holmes County
I Major H Stanly C.C. of the circuit court in and for said County and State do hereby certify that Albert Parish whose genuine appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of the assigning the same as the duly commissioned acting Justice of the Peace and all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as such.
In witnessing whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal at Bearpen Bluffs this the 18th day of September A. D. 1856
Major H. Stanly Clerk
Circuit Court Holmes County
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State of Florida
County of Holmes }
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Neil McPherson and James Grush and after having been duly sworn according to law, declare, that they are acquainted with Levi Glass, that he is now alive and a Pensioner of the United States, that they are cognizant of his having received, at various times, his pension from the United States Pension office at Mobile Alabama.
Neill McPherson
James Grush
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 1st day of August A.D. 1854
Thomas Sellers J.P. and I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named affiants and know them to be credible persons. 
Thomas Sellers J.P.

State of Florida
County of Holmes }  
I, Major H. Standley Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas Sellers whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit and certificate, is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly Commissioned and sworn, and that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. 
Given unto my hand and official seal at Bearpen Bluffs, this 1st day of August A.D. 1854.  Major H. Stanly Clerk Circuit Court, H.C.
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Certificate from Comptroller of No Carolina in case of Levi Glass

Ala Act '32

Ch: CK

Jos. Bryan [illegible]
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State of North Carolina
{Comptroller's Office
{ October 4th 1851

I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of public accounts in and for the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of record in said office, among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for military services in the Revolutionary War as follows, to wit:
Levi Glass
Book G. No. 16 £99 specie (Ninety nine pounds) Book No. 176, page 2, £10S12D8 specie (Ten pounds, 12 shillings and 8 pence) for militia service. Vol. 10 among "payments to 18 months soldiers in 1782" $76 60/100 seventy six dollars and sixty cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the day & year written
Wm. J. Clarke Comptr.
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Augt: 7/51
In befalf of Levi Glass
Cap Triplett

A.C. Scott Oglethorpe Georgia
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Oglethorpe Ga.  August 1851

Dear Sir:
  An old gentlemen whose name is Levi Glass has appeared to me for the purpose of obtaining a Land Warrant, as warrented as the case may be, he quite an old and decreipt man says he is something over one hundred years of age he remembers distinctly the name of his principle officers and says he has never received any thing in his life from the government his name is Levi Glass says his General was Green, his colonel Lytle, his Major Robert Radford, his captain S. Hadley, Adjatant Bush, 1st Leut Holmes, 2nd Luit E. Alexander, he says his name is enrolled and fears he will not be a[ink smudge] to identify by any person living as his acquaintances and companions in arms are all dead.  I have forgotten what State he said he entered the army but I can soon ascertain. Will the officer of the department be so kind as to inform me whether it would as any utility for him to proceed.
Yours Respectfully A. C. Scott
To the Scty of the [illegible]
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Rcv' 14 Dec 1830   2280 [hand written in lighter ink]
Washington, 13th Dec.  1830
Hon. Samuel D. Ingham, 
Sir, 
I enclose additional testimony in the case of Levi Glass and applicant for a pension under the act of May 1828.
With great respect you obt. servt.
C. E. Haynes
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[Envelope]

Hon - James E. Heath
Camt. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

[written sideways on left side of envelope]
Cap. Triplett


[written sideways on left side of envelope over original text]
July 30 51
Rel. to Claims of Levi Glass
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Eufaula Ala
July 22nd 1851

Dear Sir
On 28th April last we forwarded to you by mail the affidavit, power of att de in the case of Levi Glass for a Pension [underlined] as a Revolutionary Soldir [underlined] since then, we have not heard from you in reply & have not been advised whether the papers were received. Perhaps they may have been placed among the applications for Bounty Land & escaped your notice. 
Mr. Glass is an old man and the money will of no service to him, unless he gets it soon; he is also very poor & would not here applied for it had has circumstances not required it.
Please let us hear what disposition his been made of his claim.
Respectfully, Shorter & Brother
Attys at Law
Hond. J.E. Heath
Cmt Ofc
Washington
D.C.
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Shorter & Brother

Levi Glass
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Eufaula, Aug. 16, 1851

Dear Sir,
We had the pleasure on the 13th [crossed out: last], when we enclosed you all the proofs we could get in the case of Mrs. Charity Harrison.  
Since then we have received by last mail your fact of 9th inst. for which we are obliged. In our contracts with claimants at Washinton we have  hereto fore agreed to attend to their claims for our  their of the amount we might recover, and to hone nothing if we failed. By this arrangement we expect to be governed in the case of Mrs. Harrison (dividing of course with you equally the 1/3 - unless she & her children should beg off for less - They are parties of high respectability, I am personal friends & we are disposed to be liberal with them.  We will endeavor to have every thing satisfactorily arranged.
We sent some time since to the department an affidavit of Levi Glass for a pension as a Revolutionary Solder. By a late mail we received the enclosed letter from the Commissioner. We desire to have you take charge with us of this claim also. You
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will please call at the department & examine his application, & make yourself familiar with the facts in his case. There is no doubt of his service from all we can hear, and by [illegible] to N. Carolina you can obtain the needful proof of no doubt of his service.  After, hearing from them write us what way he is lacking, if any thing. Your opinions of his claims, and the favorable amount he may be entitled to if successful.
Very Truly Yours, Shorter & Brother
Hon. Joseph Bryan, Washington City, D.C.
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Penions Agents Office
 [illegible] Oct 31th 1837
Sir
I have been applied to today for information to enable Mr. Levi Glass to draw the amt of Pension due him from the 4th March 1831 to the 4th Sept 1851 at 38 30/100 Dollars per annum - I have recd no instruction as yet, to place him on the roll of this agency - I shall send him proper instructions to day; but cannot pay for a matter of [illegible] I receive notice from you place him on the roll.
Very Respectfully your obt Servant, 
J. Perrine Pension Agent
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Pension Office 
Oct. 8 1836

Sir, 
I have filed the affidavit of Levi Glass which was mailed at Knox Hill on the 23th ult.  Will you please state the object to be accomplished in transmitting it to this office? 

Very respectfully S. Cole for Commissioner 
Neill McPherson Esq. 
Knox Hill, 
Walton Co, Florida
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Pension Office
August 27, 1856
Sir:
I reply to your letter of the 17th Ultimo. You are informed that the claim of Levi Glass for bounty land will be favorably considered when he makes affidavit that he is a pensioner, & give the number of his certificate & state the agency at which he is paid. 
We have no evidence [underlined] that the applicant is a pensioner. Our rolls show a person of the name of Levi Glass, a pensioner but it does not appear from the applicants bounty law papers by implication even that he is a U.S. Pensioner.
Yours Respectfully, 
C. H. Rhett for Commissioner

Neill McPherson Esq. 
Knox Hill, Watson Co, Florida
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Brief in the case of [handwritten: Levi Glass ]
County and State of [handwritten: Alabama]
act [handwritten: 7 June 1832].
Claim, ("Original" or [crossed out "for increase"])
Proof Exhibited (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

[handwritten: Evidence of Service; Record]

(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
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Knox Hill, Walton County Fla. 
July 17th 1836

J. Minot Eqsr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City District of Columbia

Sir,
Yours of the 12th ult. relative to the Claim of Levi Glass for Bounty Land has been received, stating that his claim "for bounty land will be favorably considered upon proof being filed of his Revolutionary service" I, this day, saw Mr. Glass, and have shown him your letter, he handed me a paper of which the following is a copy [inserted: which copy is ] to be filed as evidence of his revolutionary service.
"Department of the interior. Revolutionary Claim.
I Certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Levi Glass of Alabama who was a private in the Revolution, is entitled to receive thirty eight dollars and thirty cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1837 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the Department of the Interior, this 10th day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
Signed Alx. H.H. Stuart Secretary of the Interior
Examine and Coatus signed 
  J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions"
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On the back of said paper is the following:
"Payment to be made at Mobile Ala. by Dr. Jas Perine Esqr. agent for paying pensions in the agency of Mobile.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol 8 page 45 by H.E. Robinson, Clerk"

I am, Sir, very Respectfully your obt Sevt.
Neill McPherson atty.
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Afidavit of Archibal Culberth
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Levi Glass
Revolutionary Soldier
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[handwritten: 1314]
Revolutionary Claims

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15 May, 1828.

Treasury Department
[handwritten: 3 January 1829]

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of [handwritten: Levi Glass] under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
 R. Rush
The Hon, the Secretary of War.
[Handwritten: War Depart: Bounty Land Office 
It does not appear by the records in this office that Levi Glass of the North Carolina line war received his entitled to bounty land of the United States  
Robert Taylor
7 Jany 1829
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1314
Georgia Laurens County
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved on the 15th May 1828, I Levi Glass of the County of Thomas in the State of Georgia do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in service until its termination at which period I was a private in Capt Joshua Hadley's Company in the Regiment of the North Carolina Line and I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778 and I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the pension List of the United States - 
Levi Glass
Sworn to & subscribed this 17th day of October 1828
Neill Munroe Justice of the Inferior Court Laurens County State of Georgia
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Before me Neill Munroe a Justice of the Inferior Court of the County of Laurens and State of Georgia duly authorized and empowered to administer oaths in the County of Laurens in the State of Georgia personally appeared this day Instant Hall, Anneritta Moore of the said county who did personally make oath that Levi Glass by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally [illegible] and believed to have been a private soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated - 
Witness my hand this 17th day of October in the year 1828 - 
Instant [his mark] Hall
Anneritta [her mark] Moore
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 17th October  1828
Neill Munroe Justice of the Inferior Court of Laurens County of the State of Georgia.

I Thomas Moore Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Laurens in the State of Georgia, do hereby certify that Neill Munroe before whom the forgoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Inferior Court & duly empowered to administer oaths - 
 In testimony whereof I have hereuntil let my hand and private seal there being no seal of office this 3rd day of November 1828
Tho Moore Clk. L.C.
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[Envelope]

Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
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Washington, 4th Dec. 1828
Hon. Richard Rush,
Sir, 
Enclosed I beg leave to present to you consideration the affidavit of Levi Glass, Instant Hall, & Ameritta Moore, relative to the revolutionary service of Mr. Glass. Should this testimony bring Mr. Glass within the act passed at the last session of Congress in favor of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, I am empowered to draw for him the arrears to which he may be entitled.
Your early attention to this  case will oblige your obt. servt. 
Charles Eaton Haynes
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Revolutionary Claims

Treasury Department
6 Dec. 1828

[Handwritten: Levi Glass] of [left blank] in the County of [Handwritten: Thomas] in the state of [Handwritten: Georgia] has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a [handwritten: Private] in Captain [handwritten: Hadley's] company, in the [left blank] regiment of the [handwritten: N Carolina] line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, [handwritten: nothing].
The Third Auditor is requested to reported how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.  
[handwritten: By Order of the Secretary F. A. Dickins]

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
[handwritten: 10th December 1828]
[Crossed out: It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to --- in the --- ]
It further appears that  [handwritten: Levi Glass] is [inserted: not] on the pension list of any agency, and has [inserted: not] been so since the [handwritten: 3rd March 1826] 
[handwritten: The name of Levi Glass cannot be found among these of the North Carolina line to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were paid]  
Peter Hagner Aud.
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[Envelope]

Hon James E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

[Written sideways on left side of envelope: May 5th 1851 Appl of Levi Glass
Shorter & Brother
Eufaula Ala.]

[pencil: original   no papers in file of Ala [illegible] '32]
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Eufaula Ala Apr 28th 1851

Dear Sir 
Enclosed in hand you the application of Levi Glass for whatever sum of money may be due him under the existing Pension Laws of the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War - He has never received any thing of the Government, is very old and poor - He has stated about all he remembers of his service in the affidavit. He also append to his application a pow of Attorney to us to collect whatever to be allowed him - As we are not familiar with the Pension Laws, we have made his application for whatever he may be entitled to under "existing Laws" - Hoping to hear the result of his application shortly, we remain
Yours Respectfully
Shorter & Brother
Atts At Law

To the 
Honl Jas E. Heath
Coms. of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Knox Hill Walton County, Fla
October 20th 1856

J. Minot Esq. 
Com. Pensions

Sir, 
Your letter of the 8th Inst. has been received of which the following is an extract "I have filed the affidavit of Levi Glass, which was mailed at Knox Hill on the 23rd ult, will you please state the object to be accomplished in transmitting it to this office." (Signed) "S. Cole for Commissioner"

The affidavit referred to above is relative to the bounty land claim of Levi Glass, its object, to be affixed as "additional evidence" in that claim, and was made persuant to your letter of August 27th 1856 of which the following is a copy:
  "Sir, 
    In reply to your letter of the 17th Ult. you are informed that the claim of Levi Glass for bounty land will be favorably considered when he makes affidavit that he is a pensioner and gives the number of his certificate, and states the agency at which he is
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paid.
    We have no evidence that the applicant is a Pension, our rolls show a person of the name of Levi Glass a pensioner but it does not appear from the applicant's bounty land papers by implication ever, that he is a U.S. Pensioner"
(signed) "C. H. Rhett, for Commissioner"

The Envelopes of the letters above referred to as having been sent by you, had the following printed on the fact of the envelope:
   "Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Official Business," (signed) J. Minot,"

I know of no affidavit made by Levi Glass and mailed at Knox Hill, directed to you, except an affidavit stating that he was a pension of the U.S. giving the number of certificate and the Agency at which he was paid.  If that be the affidavit about which you inquire, (as I presume it is) I trust enough has been shown in the above extracts to explain its "object."

Very Respectfully your Obt Servt.  Neill McPherson