Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 116, for Jackson Lile, North Carolina
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N.C.         Lile, Jackson        W.116
                Elizabeth             B.L. Wt. 26662-160-55
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25088
West Tennessee

Jackson Lile
of Bedford Co in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Harring of the regt commanded by Col Butler in the N. Carolina line for 14 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of W Tennessee at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Sept 1833 and Edwin A Reeble Knoxville

Arrears to the 4th of Sept                116. 63
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 23  33
                                                   $139.98

{Revolutionary claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Earl Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol 7 Page 87

J McKisick
Shelbyville

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Dead- let to Elizabeth Lile
May 4, 1843.
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(typed form with handwritten answers)
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3375
Tennessee Nashville
Elizabeth Lile
widow of Jackson Lile
who served in the Revolutionary 
Col. Butler N.C.
war as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 43 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of July 1837 and sent to 
Wm. E. Jones Esq.
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 295

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Let to J. Bryan April 7/51

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Revy War ss - 166545
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Vol. L. page 93


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166545 Act Mar 55
(illegible)
Elizabeth Lile wid
Jackson Lile Priv.

(faded, written vertically)
No 26662 issued May 25/(illegible) 

Ent.
(illegible)

Revy War
N.C. Mil
Pensioner
Lenn Feby 48 5575
Ad:160 acres May 14/56

Boyd

Claimant, 
Rover, Tenn
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Jackson Lile was born  
December 10th day A.D. 1761 
 
Elizabeth Hester was born  
November 1st A.D. 1774 
 
Jackson Lile & Elizabeth Hester  
was married July 18th day 1793 
 
James Hester Lile first child  
of Jackson & Elizabeth Lile was  
Born October 12th day A.D. 1794 
 
Benjamin Lile was born  
March 17th day A.D. 1797 
 
Sally Lile was born  
September 4th day A.D. 1798 
 
William Lile was born  
October 25th day A.D. 1800 
 
Rebeca Lile was born  
July 8th day A.D. 1803
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Nancy Lile was Born  
March 4th day 1810 
 
Clary Lile was Born  
August 29th day 1812 
 
Elizabeth Lile was born  
the 9th May 1814 
 
Jackson Lile was born  
March 2nd day 1816
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Sally Lile was married 23 Jan 1816 
 
James H. Lile was married 7th Nov. 1816 
 
William Lile was married 29 Aug 1820 
 
Rebeca Lile was married 24 Oct. 1821 
 
Benjamin Lile was married 5th Sep. 1822 
 
Jackson Lile was married 25th Dec 1834 
 
Elizabeth Lile was married 2nd April 1835
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10164
Elizabeth Lile
widow of Jackson (this is crossed out)
Declaration
Tennessee
Act 7 July '38

Married 1793
He died Sept 1842

Adm act 2 April 48
13 mos pri $43.66
per annum com'g
4 March 1848

Nashville
(illegible, possibly William) E Jones
Present
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marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above states.  For proof of her marriage she refers to a portion of the original record of the family kept by her husband.  It verifies by the oath of James Hester Lile.
                       Elizabeth X Lile    (seal)
                           (X her mark)


Subscribed & sworn in open court, this 5th June 1843
     Rob. Hurst    Clerk of Bedford County Court.


State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     To wit,
Robert Hurst Clerk of the County Court of said Bedford County, do certify that the foregoing proceedings in relation to the pension claim of Elizabeth Lile were had at the time & place & in the manner therein States.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Shelbyville, this fifth day of June 1843.
                Rob Hurst   Clerk of Bedford
                                   County Court


(seal)
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     I Thomas Davis Chairman of the county court of said Bedford County do certify that Robert Hurst who has made the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same clerk of court, duly elected and qualified, that said certificate is in due form of law and sealed with our county seal.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and forty three.
                          Thos. Davis    (seal)
                    Chairman of Bedford County Court
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     On this 28th day of May 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County & State above mentioned personally appeared Elizabeth Lile aged 79 years who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Jackson Lile who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war against Great Britain. (The Captain & Colonel that commanded she does not know that names of nor does not know any way of (illegible) them).  That Jackson Lile her husband drew a pension in his & she is still drawing a portion.  She was married to said Jackson Lile in July 1793 by John Hunt Esq. in Franklin County North Carolina and her name before that was Elizabeth Hester, that her said husband died in Bedford County, State of Tennessee, on the 8th day of Sept. 1843 and she is now a widow.  She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of March 3rd 1855-- never having received Bounty Land or knowing that she is intitled except for the above service.
                      Elizabeth Lile

Sworn to & subscribed and acknowledged before me the day & year first above written, and on
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the same day personally came before me. H. W. Jones and W.G. Hight both citizens of Bedford County in the State of Tennessee to me known as credible witnesses who being duly sworn declare that they are personally and intimately acquainted with Jackson Lile & his wife during the lifetime of the former and know that they lived together as man and wife and to be so reported and they believe that the husband of the said Elizabeth Lile was the identical person who performed the military services as mentioned in the above declaration that the above named Jackson Lile is now dead and the said Elizabeth Lile is now a widow, and they further swear they know of their own personal knowledge that she (illegible) from the pention (pension) agent at Nashville State of Tennessee forty three dollars per annum one half in March & the other half in September, and they further swear that they are disinterested.  
              H. W. Jones
              W.G. Hight

Sworn to & subscribed before me & I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution.  

                    Wm Taylor JP
                     for Bradford County
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(smudged) 309
Jackson Lile
Tennessee.

4.5
from 1780 private
14 months
$46.66/100
P6

See letter Oct 29 1832
to Edwin A. Keeble Esq.
Knoxville
Ten.
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(typed form with handwritten answers)

4309
BRIEF in the case of Jackson Lile of Bedford County in the State of Tennessee
Act 7 June, 1832.

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  In Open court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the 
applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

2.  How old is he: 70 years & 8 months

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
(The following is a chart.)
Period.  Thinks it was in June previous to the Battle at Camden.
Duration of Service
3 months - Served until near the close of the War
As a Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  
Capt Isham Harry.  Drafted into Militia
Capt Peter Bennet
Col. Butler
Capt. Henderson
Genl. Green.

5.  In what battles was he engaged:  at Camden & at Guilford.

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service:  Granville Co. No. Carolina

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  traditionary evidence.-

8.  Are the papers defective as to form an authentication?  and if so, in what respect?

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

                             Examining Clerk.
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No 4309
Jackson Lile's
Declaration
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State of Tennessee Bedford County} 
On this 7th day of August 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Quorum of 
the Court of Bedford County, now sitting, Jackson Lile a resident of Bedford County in the State of Tennessee aged Seventy years and eight months who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was drafted as a militia man under Captain Isham Harris and exchanged to the command of Peter Bennet  both Companies under the command of Colonel Butler. Lile cannot recollect the exact 
period but to the best of his recollection it was in June previous to the battle at Camden . He continued to serve under the command of Bennett until after the battle of Camden in which battle he was a part as a common soldier. After the defeat of the American Army at Camden this applicant's time expired his 
enlistment being for the three months. He then enlisted as a volunteer in a company of dragoons commanded by an officer whose name he applicant cannot at this time remember being utter strangers to each other at the time of his enlistment. At the expiration of that term of service he again volunteered under the command of Capt. John Henderson whose Lieutenant was Pleasant Henderson, under the command of Capt. Henderson this applicant fought at the battle of Guilford 
the whole commanded by General Green. After this he continued his
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as a volunteer until near the close of the war after the capture of Cornwallis when he received his discharge from a Frenchman 
who commanded his Regiment whose name was Malmedy as well as this applicant can pronounce the name. Applicant never held any commission and never attaching any importance to his discharge had it lost or destroyed a number of years ago. He knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his services nor has he any documentary evidence by which he can shew the facts. He was enlisted in Granville County North Carolina marched to Hillsboro, thence through Salisbury into South Carolina to Camden; after that battle the troops 
rendezvoused at Hillsboro where he volunteered for a second term of service. 
Applicant was born in Northampton County North Carolina in the year 1761 then he 
moved to Granville County. He has the record of his age in a Bible at home taken from a record in his Father's prayer book. He was living in Granville County North Carolina when called into service and since the war lived in the same County until the last nine years. He now lives in Bedford County Tennessee; applicant was drafted for the first three months at the age of eighteen after that term of service he volunteered. He now cannot recollect the names of the regular officers he recollects Col. Washington being with Greene and except the two battles of Camden and Guilford there was no important transactions some small skirmishes with parties of Tories -- Col. William Barnett – William Norval Esquire William Allison Esquire James Allison and John Rushing a minister of the Gospel are acquainted with the applicant's character for veracity. And the said Jackson Lile hereby relinquishes
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every claim whatever to a pension or 
annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State 
                                 Jackson Lile

Sworn to in open Court 7th of August 1832 
                      Jas. McKisick, Clerk

     We John Rushing a clergyman residing in the county of Bedford State of Tennessee and William Barnett, William Norvall, William Allison  and James Allison residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jackson Lile who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  
                    William Norvall
                    Wm. Barnett
                    John Rushing 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn to in open Court 9th August 1832.
                   J McKisick Clerk
     And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after writing the interrogations prescribed (by the war department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Rushing who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergy man -  resident in the County of Bedford State of Tennessee and that William Barnet, William Norval, William Allison and James Allison are residents in the County of Bedford, State of Tennessee & are credible persons and that their statements entitled to credit.  
                  Samuel Phillips
                  (illegible)
                   before (illegible) 
                   James McKisick, Clerk of the Court 
                                       of Pleas
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and Quarter Sessions for the County of Bedford do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jackson Lile for a pension.
     In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my  hand and seal of office this 9th day of August 1832.
                   J. McKisick

(seal)
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116
Revy widow, &c.
File No. 116
Elizabeth Lile
Widow of Jackson Lile
Priv. Rev. War

Act: Feb. 2nd 1848
Index:- Vol. M, Page 214

[Arrangement of 1870]
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(typed form with handwritten answers)

8959
Tennessee (smudge)
Elizabeth Lile
widow of Jackson
who was a private 
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the at of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Mch 1837 and sent to
                 J Bryan of Ala
                 Present

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book]
Vol. 2 Page 194
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No 10-164
Elizabeth Lile
Tennessee
Suspended

let to C. Yoakim Augt. 151043
" to John (illegible), May 13. '46
" to J. Bryan Feb. 10.51

Act of July '38
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26,662

Rev War
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(typed form with handwritten answers)

State of Tennessee, Rutherford County. SS.
I, ROBERT S. MORRIS, Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Bailey W. Farmer who has attested the annexed deposition of Jackson Lile Jr. is and was at the time of attesting the same Justice of the Peace for our said County, duly elected and qualified, and that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office, at office, in Murfreesborough, this third day of June, A.D. 1843
                  Robt. Sollonis
                  Clerk of Rutherford County Court 
(seal)

STATE OF TENNESSEE - RUTHERFORD COUNTY: To wit:
I William Vinson Chairman of the County Court of said County of Rutherford, do certify that ROBERT S. MORRIS, who has made the foregoing Certificate, is, and was at the time of making the same, Clerk of our said Court, duly elected and qualified; that said Certificate is in due form of law, and sealed without County Seal.
          Given under my hand and Seal, this third day of June A.D. 1843
Wm Vinson
Chairman of Rutherford County Court
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State of Tennessee
Rutherford County

Before me Bailey W Farmer a Justice of the Peace in and for said Rutherford County, this day personally appeared Jackson Lile and made oath in due form of Law that he was present at the death of Jackson Lile Jr.  a soldier of the Revolution and husband of Elizabeth Lile.  He died in Bedford County Tennessee on the Twenty eighth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty two (Sept. 28, 1843).
     And further, deponent saith that he has seen the record annexed to the deposition of James H. Lile, and believes it to be the original (or part of the original) family record of births, marriages & deaths of the family of said Jackson and Elizabeth Lile.  It has been recognized as the true family record, from deponent's earliest recollection.
                          Jackson Lile Jr.

Subscribed & sworn before me this 2nd June 1843.  And I certify that deponent is worthy of credit
(seal)
B.W. Farmer
Justice of the Peace
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James Hester Lile was born the 12th day of October in the year 1791

Benjamin Lile was born the 17th day March 1797

Salley Lile was Born the 9th day of September 1798

September 25th 1800 William Lile was born

Rebecah Lile was born Julye 8th 1803

B
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Jackson Lile was born the 10th day of December 1761.
Betsey Lile was born the 1st November 1774
A

Jackson Lile Jr
Betsy Liles his Wife
was married the 18 day
July 1793
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(Typed form with handwritten responses)

State of Tennessee, Rutherford County, SS.

I, ROBERT S. MORRIS, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that Bailey W. Farmer who has attested the annexed deposition of James H. Lile is and was at the time of attesting the same a Justice of the Peace for our said County, duly elected and qualified, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
(seal)
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office, at office, in Murfreesborough, this third day of June A.D. 1843
(seal)
              Robt. S. Morris
              Clerk of Rutherford County Court

STATE OF TENNESSEE - RUTHERFORD COUNTY:-To wit:
     I William Vinson Chairman of the County Court of said County of Rutherford, do certify that ROBERT S. MORRIS, who has made the foregoing Certificate, is, and was at the time of making the same, Clerk of our said Court, duly elected and qualified; that said Certificate is in due form of law, and sealed with our County Seal.
     Given under my hand and Seal, this third day of June A.D. 1843
     Wm. Vinson
     Chairman of Rutherford County Court
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State of Tennessee
Rutherford County
Before me Bailey W. Farmer Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rutherford aforesaid, this way personally appeared James H. Lile, and, after being duly sworn saith that he is he oldest child of Jackson Lile and Elizabeth Lile; that the annexed family record marked A___B, was taken out of an old family bible in the possession of Jackson Lile, until about twelve months since, when he gave it to his youngest son Jackson Lile Jr. said record, on the side marked A was written as affiant has been informed and believes by Rev. Philip Bruce, who being a brother in the Methodist Church with said Jackson  Lile Senior was in some respects, an (illegible) of the family.  That the side so marked A, contains the date of the births of said Jackson & Elizabeth, and also their marriage, showing the latter was to have occurred on the eighteenth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety three.  The other side of the record marked B is all in the hand writing of said Jackson Lile Senior showing the ages of the first five children, deponent being at the head of the list, and born on the 12th October 1794.  Deponent cannot remember when he first saw the said record, he remembers of having seen it at least thirty years ago, and it has since been in
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the family as above stated, and has been known & admitted as the true original family record, and has not been altered or erased in any manner to the best of his knowledge.  Said Jackson Lile since lived in Franklin county North Carolina, till sometime about the year 1814, where said record was written & where deponent remembers to have first seen it, thereon he removed to Granville County, N.C. thereon to Tennessee where he obtained a pension from the U. States of forty six dollars & some cents for his services in the Revolution, & where he resided until his death.  He died at his residence in Bedford County, Tennessee on the twenty eighth May of September (1842) eighteen hundred and forty two.  His widow the said Elizabeth Lile has not intermarried but still continues as his widow, and resides at the family residence in said Bedford County and State of Tennessee.       
                             Ja. H. Lile

(illegible) & sworn before me this second day of June A.D. 1843.  And I certify that said witness is a person worthy of full credit.
                            B.W. Farmer   (seal)
                            Justice of the Peace
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                          Nashville Tenn
                          March 26, 1851

Sir
     We enclose Elizabeth Lile's Certificate of Pension under At Feby 20 1818 under which act she has been paid & her Declaration under Joint Resolution March 3 1851.
     Please examine her claim & enclose her certificate to us.
                       Resy,
                       Smith & Jones

Hon Heath
Comm of Pensions
Washington DC.
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     On the 22nd day of March personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State Elizabeth Lile aged 76 years a resident of Bedford County and the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare that she is the widow of Jackson Lile decd who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty six and 66/100 Dollars per annum and who died on 28th day of November A.D. 1842, that her name is now on the Roll of the Nashville Tennessee Agency at the rate of Forty three and 22 Dollars under Act of February 2 1848, and that she made the Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the provisions of the Joint Resolution of March 3rd 1851, explaining the Act of July 7th 1838, & March 1848 and 7 June said that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of above Jackson Lile deceased.
               Elizabeth X Lile
                  (her mark)

Of the truth of which Statements I am fully satisfied.  Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year above written.
     James Foster JP

I certify that I am acquainted with Elizabeth Lile that she is in all respected intitled to full credit & belief. Given under my hand this 2 day March 1851.
                    James Foster  JP
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County SS
     I Andrew Vannoy Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that James Foster is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 20th day of March 1848 and will expire on the 20th day of March 1854, and that his signatures within written are Genuine.  Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 24th day of March 1851.
            Andrew Vannoy Clerk

(clerk)
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                                    Washington City
                                    Jany 28, 1851 

Ja. E. Heath Esq.
    Comm. of Pensions

Sir,
    I am instructed on behalf of Wm. E. Jones Atty in fact for Elizabeth Lile widow of Jackson Lile, a Pensioner under the Act of 7th June 1832 on the Nashville Tennessee Roll to ask that the papers be submitted to me for examination prior to activating the claim, which has been filed for sometime in your office, additional testimony having been partly filed by him.
And likewise the papers in the claim of Julia Gay widow of _____Gay a Pension & also on the Nashville Roll.
                 With great respect
                 Your obt Servt
                      Joseph Bryan 
The Board of Pensions will please comply with the above request.

                   Wm. E. Jones
                     of Smith & Jones
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                       Nashville Tennessee
                       December 12th 1850

D Sir
      We herewith send you the declaration & proof of Mrs. Elizabeth Lile widow of Jackson Lile for a pension and her old family record which contains the date of her marriage, all of which we believe will be satisfactory and we request that her pension certificates be all forwarded to me as soon as allowed.
                     and you will much oblige
                     your obt. servants
                            Smith & Jones 

JL Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
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Elizabeth Liles
claim to pension
presented by W E Jones
& W H Smith Nashville
          Smith & Jones
                  agts
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     Know all men by these presents that I Elizabeth Lile of Bedford County Tennessee widow of Jackson Lile decd. do hereby constitute and appoint WC Jones of Davidson County Tennessee my true and lawful attorney in fact for me and in my name to present my claim to a pension to the proper departments in Washington City and then attend to the same and after my said claim is allowed the commissioners of Pensions at Washington is hereby directed to deliver my said pensions certificates to him the said W E Jones and to no one else. 
     In witness my hand and seal this 6th December 1850
                   Elizabeth X Lile     (seal)
                     (X her mark)

Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Henry W. Jones
James Foster

State of Tennessee
Bedford County
On this 6 day December 1850 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace Mrs. Elizabeth Lile who acknowledged the execution of the above power of attorney for the purposes above therein contained.
                 Witness my hand & seal
                       James Foster JP
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County
     On this 6th day of December 1850 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and a Justice of the County Court of said Bedford County which is a court of Record Mrs Elizabeth Lile a resident of said county aged Seventy Six 76 years who being first duly sworn according to law the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Acts of Congress past on the 7th July 1838, 3d March 1843, 17th June 1844 and 2d February 1848 granting pension to certain widows that she is the widow of Jackson Lile decd who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Forty Six dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum and draws pension in Nashville State of Tennessee for services rendered during the Revolutionary War.
     She further declares that she was married to the said Jackson Lile in Franklin County State of North Carolina on the 18th Eighteenth day of July Seventeen hundred and ninety three by John Hurst a Justice
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of the peace in said Franklin County that her husband the late Jackson Lile died in said Bedford County Tennessee on the 28th day of September eighteen hundred and forty two that since his death declarant has not again married but still remains his widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.  She further declares that the annexed family record which shows the date of her marriage to him the said Jackson Lile dec. and of the births of their children is the Genuine family record as kept by her husband in his life time and which was many years ago copied by him from an old record which he had kept in his bible, but which Bible he gave to one of his sons Jackson Lile Jr. but which Bible she does not know whether the said Jackson Lile keeps or not.  She also here attaches an old power of attorney which was made by her husband his lifetime to draw his pension but which from some cause he did not use but which is genuine and contains his signature written in his
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own hand write.  She further declares that the first child of her self and the said Jackson Lile her husband was both October Seventeen hundred and ninety four (1794) as appears from  said family record that her name before she was married to the said Jackson Lile was Elizabeth Hester.
     She further declares that after the death of her said husband she made a declaration to wit in 1844 or 1845 claiming a pension which declaration was forwarded as she supposes to the Department by John Bruce and to whom she declared this original pension certificate of her said husband and which she supposes was forwarded by said Bruce to the department and to which if on file at the Department. She now refers that she also attached hereunto a letter which she received from said John Bruce relative to said claim but since which date 23 June 1868 She has heard nothing from said Bruce.  She further states that she has no other documentary or record proof of her marriage except the above
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(This is a typed form with badly faded, handwritten answers.)

STATE OF TENNESSEE
Bedford County, S.S.

Be it known, That before me, Wm Taylor, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Jackson Lile Sr. and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Jackson Lile Sr. named in an original certificate in his possession, of which I certify the following is a true copy:
             WAR DEPARTMENT
          REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
     I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832 Jackson Lile Sr. of the State of Tennessee who was a private in the (illegible) of the Revolution, is entitled to receive forty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.
     Given at the War Office of the United States this (illegible) day of November 1833.
(illegible)

That he now resides in Bedford County and has resided there for the space of about twenty years past;  previous thereto resided in North Carolina, Granville County.
                         Jackson X Lile
                             (X his mark)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of March 1840?
Wm. Taylor
(2nd line illegible)
Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee
Bedford County, Sct.
     I Wm. Taylor a Justice of the Peace int he County above named, do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz: from personal acquaintance that Jackson Lile Sr. who has this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity, is the identical person named in the Pension Certificate which he has exhibited before me, numbered (illegible) and bearing date at the War Office, the 11th day of September 1833, and signed by (illegible) Secretary of War.
     Given under my hand this 31st day of March 184?
               Wm. Taylor Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County 
    On this 6th December 1850 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Henry W. Jones, a resident of said county aged thirty nine years and made oath that he has been well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Lile for the last eleven years and was well acquainted with her husband Jackson Lile in his lifetime that previous to the death of her husband the said Jackson Lile he was a pensioner of the said State at the rate of forty six 66/100 dollars per year that he died in said Bedford County on the 28th September 1842.  Affiant was present & saw him die that at the time of his death he left his widow the said Elizabeth Lile who since his death has not intermarried but still remains the widow of him the said Jackson Lile and the identical Jackson Lile who drew the pension as above specified, that affiant has this day
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Seen and knows the declaration of the said Elizabeth Lile (illegible) and is certain that the facts set forth in said declaration (illegible) to the first application of by herself for a pension through John Bruce and the disposition of the original pension certificate of her husband is substantially correct and true.
                Sworn to and subscribed before me the note written.
                            Henry W. Jones
James Foster

State of Tennessee
Bedford County
      I James Foster a Justice of the Peace in & for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above Henry W. Jones that the statements as made by him is intitled to full credit & belief
           Written my hand & seal this 6 December 1850.
                        James Foster JP
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Mrs E Lile when you get a return from North Carolina please write me to Murfreesborough and leave your letter at Capt Allen Harris's store at Middleton
                    Yours with great esteem
                    John Bruce

June 23rd 1845
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Feb 20, 1846
Recd. Elizabeth Lile

(written vertically)
10
Honourable JL Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington City

(stamp)
MURFREESBOROUGH TN
FEB 11
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            Murfreesborough  January 31st 1846

Sir
     Your letter of the 15th August 1843 in he case of Elizabeth Lile to Att. Yoakum Esq. is at this time before me.  Att. Yoakum Esq is at this time a citizen of Texas.  Mrs. Lile has employed me to attend to her case.  And since I have been employed I have made great (illegible) to obtain some proof in the state of North Carolina but have failed to obtain the same.  Sir in your letter your stated that the proofs of identity and date of the marriage were insufficient.  You likewise stated in said letter that the additional testimony in said case had been examined and placed upon file.  You likewise stated that on examination it was found that the claim of Jackson Lile as stated was erroneously allowed.  And that admitting record that in which he states he was in the Battle of Gilford did not in fact exceed forty days, that unless satisfactory testimony be adduced of is or more no pension case be granted.  Sir I'm prepared to make the following additional explanation in said case.  In the first instance Jackson Lile employed a gentleman of the bar of this state to fix his papers for him.  That gentleman after he
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had arranged said papers, transmitted them to the Department.  Not long afterwards there came a letter from the Department which contained an abjection against granting said pension.  Such letter which brought said objection, pointed out an error in the papers first sent on which error was probably not as to the time of services stated in said declaration nor not as to the (illegible) or authentication, but with regard to some other matter.  And after the receiption (reception) of the last mentioned letter Jackson Lile wrote and employed another gentleman to arrainge (arrange) his papers for him.  And when said last mentioned gentleman wrote the additional declaration he cut the old gentleman Lile out of all his time of service except four months and ten days.  Sir you will please examine the first declaration in said case, and you will there certainly find that Jackson Lile proved six months or more than six months or else I am very much mistaken.  My health is very bad at this time and consequently it gets very hard on me to be compelled to write so much.  But if I can succeed in getting a little more money for those (illegible) the revolutionary soldiers, and thereby  illeviate (alleviate) a certain proportion of wretched (illegible).  My reward will be the consolation it will impart to my mind together with the little pittance of money they shall pay me for my services I now lay before the Department the case of an old lady whose husband served in the Revolution for the purpose of establishing that fair fabrick of liberty which we now enjoy.  And after said service he provided well for his wife.  But he is now gone from this another world leaving her to trudge along the rough & rugged roads of life carrying the great weight of years.  She is prudent
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and discreet.  And owing to her great poverty & infirmity of old age, she needs the fostering hand of the Government to sustain her.  I have done everything I can for her, and I hope the Department will grant her a stipend.
      I am with great essteam (esteem) your obedient servant.
                            John Bruce

The Honourable
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner
of 
Pensions
Washington City

P.S. You will see that this case is fully made out provided Jackson Lyle proved six months or more than six months service in his first declaration.
                             John Bruce
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                     Murfreesboro' Tennessee
                                          June 7. 1843

Hon. James L. Edwards,
              Com. of Pensions,

Sir
     I send you herewith the declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Lile, for a pension under act of July 7, 1838, also the deposition of James. H. Lile verifying the record of her marriage, also proof showing the time of the death of Jackson Lile, also his pension certificate.
                Hoping you will find all right,
                             I am your
                               Obt. Sert.
                                 H. Yoakum
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                       Pension Office
                           May 4th 1843

Madam,
     At the request of Mr. H. Yoakum of Murfreesborough, I herewith return the pension certificate of your deceased husband Jackson Lile, and have to inform you that if you were married to him before the 1st of January 1794, you may probably obtain a pension under the act of July 7 1838 on furnishing such proof as the enclosed printed sheet points out.
                     I am, very respectfully,
                           Your Obt Servant
                              J L Edwards

Mrs. Elizabeth Lile
Unionville
Bedford County
Tennessee
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              Murfreesboro' Tennessee
                                 April 23, 1843

Hon James L. Edwards
     Sir, Jackson Lile was a pensioner under the act of 1832.  He died on the 28th September last, leaving a widow Elizabeth Lile with whom he married previous to the 1st January 1794, all which facts she can establish.  She wishes to know whether under this state of facts, she can draw a pension.  Please inform her by letter directed to Unionville Post office Bedford County Tennessee, and return the pension certificate herewith enclosed.
                               Your obt. Ser
                                     H. Yoakum
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Payments to be made
at Nashville
by the (illegible) B Bank Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of West Tennessee


Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E, Vol 7, Page 87 by Danl Boyd Clerk
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(Typed form with handwritten answers)

                    WAR DEPARTMENT.
                REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

     I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jackson Lile of the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Forty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
                         Given at the War Office of the United States, this 19th day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
                              Lewis Cass
                              Secretary of War.


Examined and Countersigned.}
JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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(Typed form with handwritten answers.)

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answers int he negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of _____which require further proof of explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  yes

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  yes

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is here any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  no

V.  Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the difference grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  no

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  yes

IX.  Hs the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  yes
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An amendment to the declaration of Jackson Lile, made at August Term 1832 of Bedford County Court -- in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 
State of Tennessee 
Bedford County
     Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace, Jackson Lile, who being duly sworn; deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise periods of the war when he served, nor the precise length of his service; But according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods below and in the following grades -- to wit -- that to the best of his recollection his first tour of duty commenced about the middle of June 1780 -- and ended at or in a few days after the defeat at Camden in the same year, & that he served not less than three months as a private Soldier -- under Capt. Bennett as mentioned in the declaration above alluded to. -- And that his second tour, under the officer whose name he cannot remember, commenced the first of October to the best of his recollection in the year 1780 and ended on the first day of January in the year 1781 -- And that he served not less
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than three months as a volunteer private Soldier and dragoons. -- And that he served, on his third tower of duty under Capt. John Henderson from the first of January 1781, until the first of September in the same year as a private Soldier and volunteer mounted gunman -- deponent states that his declaration was not read to him as it appears now to be, that he was discharged before the Surrender of Cornwallis and his former declaration, States he was in service afterwards. Deponent states to the best of his recollection he served, as a drafted militia man, and volunteer private Soldier not less than fourteen months in the actual service of the United States during the war of the Revolution, for which claims a pension. 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of September 1833. 
George Davidson, JP 

                          Jackson Lile               (Seal)
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State of Tennessee SS
     I James McKisick clerk of the County Court of Bedford County in the State aforesaid do certify that George Davidson Esquire before whom Jackson Lile was qualified to the foregoing amended declaration is was at the time of qualifying him thereto an acting Justice of the peace in and for said Court duly commissioned and qualified as such and that the foregoing is his genuine signature.

(seal)
     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Shelbyville this 9th day of Oct 1833.
                 Ja McKisick clk