Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 7496, Joseph Garner, Va.
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(B-1776)
SERVICE       NUMBER
Va.   Garner, Joseph       W7496
                   Sarah

CONTENTS
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11.397
[marked out: (?) 
Georgia Roll]
Alabama

Joseph Garner
of Clark Co. in the State of Georgia
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel D. Morgan of the Virginia
line, for the term of 3 years  from1775
[in]scribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of
8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 26 of June 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th June 1819
and sent to Thomas W. Cobb, Esq
Lexington, Ga
Arrears to 4th of March 1819.... 66.36
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 4, 1819. 48 "
Arrs 8 Mo 5/30-4/31 $114.36 ┃
-
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Amot due as Rev'y Pen. on the
4. March 1819.    66.36
Amount paid as an Invalid
pensioner from the 26 of
June 1818 to the 4 Mar. 1819,
8 mo. 5/30-4/31 @ $4.44 36.86
$29.50

See letter to Hon L. Cass
& Ala. / Va. agents
Jun 27. 1832

See letters 29 May 1834 to Hon. C. C. 
Clay & Va. & Ala. Agents.  (and to 
pay given.) See letters to Geo. Ag't. & 
Hon. C. C. Clay June 2, 1834 
also to Va. Agent do. to Ala. P. Agt.
July 20. 1834 (nothing due)
See letter Oct. 13. 1834
to Va. Pen. Ag't.

Letter to James Crawford
Esq Mobile Alabama and [?] auditor May 
9th 1842

Paid at the Treasury under 
the Act of April 6th 1838 from 
4th Sept 1840 to 20th Decr 1840
Agt notified May 19th 1842

Notification sent to Jno. Cumming Savannah, Ga. 24 May 18[??]
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Alabama, Huntsville
Sarah Garner
idow of
Joseph Garner
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of
96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
in the 4th day of March, [date lined out] 18
1st July 184
certificate of Pension i
the 29th day of March
and sent to
C.W. Bennett
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 355 Vol. 3
The National Archives of the United States [stamp]
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the Act of Congress passed the fourth day of July 1836 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows of Revolutionary Pensioners
State of Alabama
Cherokee County ⎬ On this
day of October 1842 personally appeared before the Judge of the Circuit
Court for Cherokee County in said State, Sarah Garner a resident
of Cherokee County in the State aforesaid
aged about Sixty Eight Years who being duly sworn according to
Law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836 and the Acts
passed. Subsequently and Explanatory thereto
That she was married to Joseph
Garner in the year 1791 (seventeen hundred & ninety one
in the County of Faquer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, that they removed in the year 1802 to the State of Georgia, and remained there until the year 1820 when they removed to the State of Alabama where they lived together until the 20th day of December
1840 when her husband the said Joseph Garner died in Cherokee County in the State aforesaid
that said Joseph Garner her husband aforesaid
served in the Army of the Revolution as a private in the
Company commanded by Captain Blackwell
in Col Cooper's Regiment of the Virginia
Continental Line, that he was placed on the
Invalid pension list in consequence of wound
received in (she thinks) the battle of Monmouth and received a small monthly pension at Richmond in Virginia. That his pension
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was subsequently increased, that he received
some portion at the pension Office at Savannah in the State of Georgia and that his papers were
after his removal to the State of Alabama has
ferred to the pension office where he received
his pension until a short period prior to his
decease and that she the deponent has received he ballance of his pension from the time of the last payment to his death from the agency for the State of Alabama, which may be ascertained by a reference to the pension office- That she is now a widow and that she has not
been married since the decease of her said
husband Joseph Garner as will more
fully appear by a reference to the proof
hereto annexed - and this deponant further
states that she is not aware
that there is any person now living that saw
this deponent & the said Joseph Garner
deceased Married and if any one is living
she is not aware of the place of their Residence
at
Sarah Garner
X
mark
Sworn to & Transcribed
before me in open Court this 13th Oct 1842
S. Martin one of the
Circuit Judges for
the State of Alabama
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Circuit Court Fall Term 1842
The State of Alabama
Cherokee County
This day personally appeared in open
Court, before the undersigned Peter Martin, one of the Circuit
Judges of the said State, now residing, Henry McCoy, (who
I certify to be a reputable person, and being duly sworn
deposeth and sayeth, that he is well acquainted with
Sarah Garner who is an applicant for the benefits of the
act of Congress of the fourth July 1836. That the said Sarah is
now a widow that her husband Joseph Garner, died some time
in the year 1840. That the said defendant has been acquainted with
the said Sarah and her husband for records of twenty years
and that during the whole of that period they lived together
as husband and wife, and was always reputed so to be in
the neighborhood where they resided. That the said Sarah is
now a widow, and has never been married since the
death of her husband Joseph Garner aforesaid
Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court before me this 13th day
Henry McCoy
of October A.D. 1842
P. Martin Circuit
Judge for the State of
Alabama

The State of Alabama Circuit Court Fall Term 1842
Cherokee County
This day personally appeared in
open court, before Peter Martin, the undersigned one of the
Circuit Judges of said state, and now presiding, Thomas
Hollingsworth, who being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth
that he is well acquainted with Sarah Garner, who is an
applicant for the benefit of an act of Congress of the 4th of
July 1836. That the said Sarah is now a widow, that her
husband died some time in the year 1840 That the said defendant has been acquainted with the said Sarah and her
husband Joseph Garner for about eighteen
years or
more during the whole of which time, up to the death of the
said Joseph, they lived together as husband and wife
and was always reputed and esteemed so to be in the neighbor
hood where they resided. That the said Sarah Garner is now
a widow and has never been married since the death
of her husband Joseph Gomer aforesaid
Sworn to and subscribed
Thos Hollingsworth
by the said Thomas Hollingsworth,
who I certify to be a person of
credibility, before me this 13th
day of October A.D. 1842
P. Martin one of the
Circuit Judges for
the State of Alabama
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The State of Alabama
Cherokee County
I, F M Hardwick,
Circuit Court for said County, do
hereby certify, that Peter Martin, whose name appears
officially to the three foregoing certificates, on the other
side & half of this sheet, is one of the Judges of the circuit court of said State, and more presiding in
said County, and that his signatures to the said
foregoing certificates are his genuine signatures -
Given under my hand and private seal having no
seal of office this 13th
day of October A.D. 1842
F M Hardwick Clerk
Circuit Court for Cherokee
County & State aforesaid

July 7. 1838
Sarah Garner
No 8535

I Reuben Chapman Rep in Congress from
Ala do certify that F. M. Hardwick who
made the above certificate as clerk of the
circuit court of Cherokee County in
said State was then and still is clerk as afore
said and I believe the signature purporting
to be his to be genuine
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Washington City
R Chapman
Decr 10th 1842

Hon R. Chapman
Dec 12.1842
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WARRENTON
FEB
10 
[stamp]

FREE Hon. R. Chapman

Hon. Reuben Chapman, M.C.
Washington
D.C
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Know all men by these presents that we Joseph Garner, Tapply Hinson are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency Beverly
Randolph Esq Governor of Virginia in the sum of Fifty pounds to which payment well and truly to be made to the said Randolph and to his successors for the use of the Commonwealth we bind ourselves & each of our heirs Exors & admors jointly
& severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated the 22nd day of December 1790.
The Condition is that whereas there is a marriage shortly
intended to be solemnized between Joseph Garner and Sally Oar
for which a license hath issued now if there be no lawfull
cause to obstruct the said intended marriage then the
above obligation to be void or else remain in full force.
Sealed & delivered ⎬
in presence of
Joseph Garner
his
mark
X
Tapley Hinson
℗
Virginia, Fauquier County To wit
I, Alexander J. Marshall Clerk of Fauquier County Court in the
State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
transcript of a marriage bond taken and filed in the Clerks
Office of said Court.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand
and annex the seal of said Court this 9" day
of February 1843, and in the 67 year of
the Commonwealth.
A.J. Marshall, Clk.
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State of Alabama
COUNTY OF Cheroke
SS.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Judge of the Court of Probate
in and for said County that
Joseph Garner-
●
was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
at the rate of $96 -------- per annum
and that he died on the Nineteenth
day of October eighteen hundred and forty
leaving surviving Sarah Garner his widow and who has continued his widow
and that Maluida Bryce, Rosa Burger, Sophia Goodwin, Sally White,
Gilford Garner, Joseph Garner & John Garner who are all over the
age of twenty one years, are
the only surviving children of the aforesaid. Joseph Garner deceased.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
of office this Twentieth day of August
one thousand eight hundred and fifty - two

William E. McDaniel
Judge of Probate C. C.
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PENSION AGENCY,
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, September 22d 1853.
Received of W. H. MOORE, Agent for paying Pensions, twenty-five Dollars and seventy-seven cents, being for three months & twenty-six days [months is crossed out] pension due to me, Sarah Garner
from the 4th day of March eighteen hundred and [fifty is crossed out]  forty eight to the 30th day of June
eighteen hundred and [fifty is crossed out] forty eight for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
Sarah Garner
By her atty in Fact,
Geo S Walden

$25.77 [handwritten in dark box]
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.
X
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

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The State of Alabama ⎬ I, William E. McDaniel Judge of the 
Cherokee County S.S. ⎬ Court of Probate of said County &
State, do hereby certify that Daniel C
Turrentine is and was at the date of the foregoing affidavits
and certificates an acting Justice of the Peace in and for
said County duly commissioned & quallified, and authorized
by law to administer oaths, and certify the acknowledgments
of Deeds, and that his several signatures to the said above
affidavits & certificates are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office at office in
the Town of Centre in said County this 12th day of September
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
William E McDaniel
Judge of Probate
CC
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Know all men by these presents. That I Sarah Garner of the county of Cherokee and State of Alabama, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint George I Walden my true and Lawful attorney, for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the Untied States, for paying pensions in Huntsville, in the State of Alabama, my pension from the 4th day of March 1848 to the 30th day of June 1848. Witness, my hand and seal, this 12th day of September 1853. Sarah her + mark Garner seal

Sealed and delivered in the presence of Go Holloway
Daniel C Turrentine

State of Alabama Cherokee County S.S.

Be it known that on the 12th day of September 1853 before the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, and to certify the acknowledging of Deeds, personally appeared Sarah Garner above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed - In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written -
Daniel C. Turrentine Justice of the Peace

State of Alabama Cherokee County S.S. 
Be it known that on the 12th day of September 1853  before me Daniel C. Turrentine, an acting justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared George S Walden, the attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive by virtue of the foregoing Power of Attorney, either by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been disposed of to any person whatever. 
George S Walden
Sworn to and Subscribed to before me and year last above mentioned
Daniel C. Turrentine Justice of the Peace
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The State of Alabama Cherokee County S.S.
Be it known, that before me, Daniel C. Turrentine 
a justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid 
duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally 
appeared Sarah Garner and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical person named 
in an original certificate in her possession of which 
(I certify) the following is a true copy:
Department of the Interior
Widow's Pension
I certify, that in conformity with the act of February 
2nd 1848 Sarah Garner - Widow of Joseph Garner, who 
was a private in the Revolutionary war, is inscribed 
on the pension list, at the rate of eighty dollars per ann-
-um, commencing on the 4th of March 1848 and continuing 
until 30th June 1848, unless she should again marry; 
in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage,

(To the left, Drawing of a what seems like a cloud)

Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty 
ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
R. McClelland. Secretary of the Interior
Examined and consigned - S. Cole, acting commissioner of Pensions. 
That she has not inter-married, but continues the widow of the above mentioned Joseph Garner. that she now resides
in the county of Cherokee & State of Alabama, and has resided
there for the space of about fifteen years past, and that
previous thereto she resided in the States of Georgia & 
Virginia. Of the truth of which statements I am fully satisfied Sara (her X mark) Garner
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 12th day of September
1859 Daniel C Turrentine
Justice of the Peace
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State Allabamma [sic] }
St Clair County   }
Personally came Joseph Garner late of Clark County State of Georgia
a soldier in the Revolutionary war. and made oath in the Circuit Court held for the County afforesaid [sic] and saith that the following schedule is the whole amt. of all the property he is legally possessed of that is to say.
1 sow & four pigs $4."
1 Pot 1:"
2 Arces 1,50
2 old weading [sic] hoes 1:00
2 feather Beds & furniture 14.00
21.50
State of Allabamma [sic] }
St Clair County   }
Personally appeared this day in open Court the above named Joseph Garner who being duly sworn saith that the above Schedule is correct & the facts therein stated are true & that said Garner is possessed of no property other than that mentioned in said Schedule that he is about sixty five years of age that he has a wife & seven children four daughter & three sons, his oldest son is about sixteen years of age one seven the other about four years of age his daughters are about 18 years 16 years nine years & the other younger.
that he from age is unable to work for his & his family support & that he is
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the same person who was placed on the
pension list under the act passed in
1818.
Joseph Garner
sworth before me
Jose C. Roberts C.C.
State of Alabama Circuit Court of Law
St Clair  County  ⎬
& Equity March Sum 182,
J. Henry J. Webb presiding Judge in the
Court afforesaid do certify that Joseph
Garner whose name is subscribed to the
above affidavit came personally into
open Court and was sworn to the truth of
the facts set forth in said affidavit
& I do further certify that the property
specified in the foregoing schedule from
the witness before me does not exceed in
value the sum of Twenty one dollars
& fifty Cents & I do order the Clerk of
this Court to certify & transmit a copy
of the foregoing proceeding to the office
of the war department of the United States
Witness H. Y. Webb presiding Judge of
said Court this 20th day of March 1821
H.M Webb
{seal}
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J Garner
Returned to be accompanied by the original certificate under which he receives a pension




M.C.A.E.
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Georgia
Clark County
Superior Court June adjourned Term 1818

Personally came before me Joseph Garner of said county aged sixty four years & being duly sworn on oath saith, that in the month of October seventeen hundred and seventy four or five (but in which year he doth not now certainly recollect) he enlisted into Captain William Blackwood's company in the line with Virginia regiment, commanded by Col'o (afterwards Gen'l) Daniel Morgan, that of this company the present Chief Justice John Marshall was first Lieutenant, who is acquainted with this deponent, that he enlisted in Farquiere (sic) County, Virginia, that he continued in service three years in the regular discharge of his duty, which was the term for which he enlisted - that after serving out his enlistment he was regularly discharged, but his discharge is either now lost or was returned to the proper office some years ago for the purpose of entitling deponent to a pension, which pension he obtained & is now a pensioner of the Government payable at Richmond in Virginia.  This deponent saith he is now old and infirm & from his reduced circumstances he stands in need of the aid and of his country.
Joseph Garner  X his mark

Sworn to in open court this 26th June 1818
Sterling Elder Clk.

Georgia 
Clark County
I do hereby relinquish all claims whatever to the pension allowed me heretofore by the laws of the United States.
Joseph Garner X his mark   seal

Signed, [illegible] described in presence of 
Tho. W. Cobb
Jno. M Dooly  J.I.C.W.D.G.
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Georgia
Clark County
Personally came before me Charles Garner who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith that he well knows that Joseph Garner served in the company of William Blackwell in the Eleventh Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. (afterwards Genl) Daniel Morgan during these years.
Charles Garner

Sworn to in open court this 26th June 1818
Sterling Elder Clk.
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Georgia 
Clark County

In the Superior Court June adjourned term 1818

I John M Dooly, Judge of the Superior Court of the Western District of said state do certify that the foregoing contains the evidence taken on the application of Joseph Garner for a pension under the act of Congress of the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred & eighteen & that the foregoing release was executed before me on this day, & that sufficient evidence has been offered before me on the oath of John Selman & John H. Lowe of the reduced circumstances of the applicant entitling under said act to  the aid of his country.  And I further certify that the evidence of the continual service of the applicant for nine months during the war was satisfactory to my mind of them being performed.

Given under my hand this 26th June 1818.

Jno. M. Dooly J.I.C.D.
Westn. Dist. Georgia

Georgia}
Clarke County}

I Sterling Elder Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do certify that the foregoing proceedings were had in open Court before the Honorable John M. Dooly Judge himself on this day.
Given under my hand & seal of office this 26th June 1818.
Sterling Elder Clk.
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                   June 3, 1935
                   xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mrs. Earl Roberts            |   Joseph Garner
Oxford                              |   W. 7496
Alabama                           |  BA-J/MLB


Dear Madam:

     You are furnished herein the record of Joseph Garner as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W.7496, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.

     The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given.

     While a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia, where he was reared, Joseph Garner enlisted early in the Revolution, served as private in Captain William Blackwell's company Colonels Daniel Morgan's Febiger's and Cropper's Virginia regiment, was in the battle of Brandywine in which he was wounded in his left arm by a musket ball, length of service three years.

     Joseph Garner was allowed pension from September 4, 1789, on account of disability resulting from the above-named wound.

     In 1802, the soldier moved from Fauquier County, Virginia, to Georgia, and in 1815 was a resident of Clarke County, that state. In 1818, he was still residing in Clarke County, Georgia, aged sixty-four years. In 1820, he moved from Georgia to Alabama and lived for sometime in Saint Clair County, in that state.

     He died December, 20, 1840, in Cherokee County, Alabama.

     Joseph Garner married Sarah (sometimes called Sally) Oar or Orr, in Fauquier County, Virginia, in which county she also was reared. Their marriage bond, dated December 22, 1790, was recorded in the County Clerk's Office of Fauquier County, Virginia.

     Soldier's widow, Sarah Garner, was allowed pension on her application executed October 13, 1842, at which time she was aged sixty-eight years and a resident of Cherokee County, Alabama, where she was still residing in 1852.
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     In 1821, the soldier stated that he then had seven children - four daughters aged about eighteen, sixteen, nine, and one younger whose age was not stated, also three sons aged about sixteen, seven and four years, but he did not give their names. 

     in 1852, the surviving children of the soldier were:

Melinda Burger, Burger or Bugee (surname illegible)

Rosa Burger

Sophia Goodwin

Sally White

Gilford Garner, who is 1842 was residing in Double Springs, Cherokee County, Alabama, his wife then being dead.

Joseph Garner

John Garner

     In 1818, one Charles Garner made affidavit in Clarke County, Georgia, in behalf of the soldier, but did not state any relationship to him. 

     In 1842, Charles G. Burger, of Clarke County, Georgia, referred to Gilford Garner as his brother and to soldier's widow as mother, but he did not designate the name of soldier's daughter whom he married. At that time Charles G. Burger referred to his family as follows: Akron, married, name of wife not given; William who married Eliza Garner (her relationship to soldier's family not shown); Susannah who married David Beasley; Newman who married Pegy Beasley; Tereasy who married one __ Dillon, a native of Ireland; Jacob who married Poley Woods' daugher, name not stated, and Jasper, single, and that his family then consisted of his wife, name not designated, and "three last boys". He referred to one Melinda but did not state her relationship to him. Charles G. Burger's sister, Leannah Burger, in 1842 made affidavit in Clarke County, Georgia, in behalf of soldier's widow, Sarah. Charles G. Burger referred to two sisters but designated the name of only one. 

     In 1852, one Jacob Burger, aged seventy-two years, made affidavit in Cherokee County, Alabama, in behalf of soldier's widow, Sarah, but did not state his relationship to Rosa and Melinda Burger, daughters of the soldier.

          Very truly yours

          A. D. HILLER
          Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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                            June 3, 1935
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Mrs. Karl Roberts        | Joseph Garner, W. 7496
Oxford                          | Sturdey Garner, S. 16819
Alabama                           ____________
                                           BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

     Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Garner, of Butler County, Alabama; Joseph Garner, of Saint Clair County, Alabama; Joseph Garner, Senior, of Cherokee County, Alabama, and Sturdey Garnder, of Madison County, Alabama. 

     The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and only one record was found based upon service in that war of a Joseph Garner. He lived in both Saint Clair and Cherokee Counties, Alabama, and his record with the record of Sturdey Garner are furnished herewith.

     In order to identify the Revolutionary War record of the particular soldier named John Garner in whom you are interested, should it be on file, as much as possible of the following data in regard to him should be furnished: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow. 

              Very truly yours

 
               A. D. HILLER
              Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Reported
Letter to Pension Agent at
Mobile, March 1. 1843

Alabama 7031
Ssarah Garner
widow of Joseph Garner
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died in the year 1840
of Cherolee Co. in the state of Alabama
who was a Private in the company 
commanded by Captain ___ of the 
regt. commanded by Col. Morgan in
the Virginia line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Huntsville
at the rate of 80 Dollars __
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued to 24th day of 
February 1843, and sent to Hon. R.
Chapman, House of representatives

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841.  $400--
{marked out: Semi-annual allowance ending]

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2  Page 202.
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MMNF
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
December 1, 1927
Mrs. J. B. Sanford
Highlands
Talladega, Ala.

Madam:
[written note: he did not serve as long as [illegible] soldier & was not in last named Regt.]

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 7496 it appears that Joseph Garner while a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia, where
he was "raised", enlisted early in the Revolution and served as a private in Captain William Blackwell's Company, and this was not
Colonels Daniel Morgan's, Febiger's, Cropper's and Christie's 
[written note: This was not same regiment that other three served in]
Regiments. He was in the battle of Brandywine where he was wounded in the left arm by a musket ball. He served three years.
[written note: should have been here]
(2) In 1802 he moved from Fauquier County, Virginia to Georgia, and in 1818 was living in Clarke County in said State aged about sixty-four years. In 1820 he moved to Alabama and lived a while in Saint Clair County.
(1) He was allowed pension from September 4, 1789 on account of disability resulting from above named wound. (3) He died December 20, 1840 in Cherokee County, Alabama.
He married in Fauquier County, Virginia, Sarah Oar, or Orr,
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[Handwritten note]
This soldier is on Ind. Pension List under those who were paid at Va. Agency but whose papers were destroyed when War Off. was burned in 1814 & had not been paid since that time.
Pension began Sept. 4 - 1789 under Act of June 7 - 1785 - Transferred to Ga=
He is nowhere on Ga. list (1835), but is on Ala. list as of St. Clair Co. & trans. from Ga.
(Clark Co.) from Mch - 4 - 1820 - (Act 1818)
(MMHF)

[Letter body: handwritten]
MMHF

[Letter body: typed]
December 1, 1927

Talladega, Ala.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 7496 it appears that Joseph Garner while a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia, where he was "raised", enlisted early in the Revolution and served as a private in Captain [handwritten note: he....this sol...Regt....last] William Blackwell's Company, and Colonels Daniel Morgan's Febiger's, Cropper's and Christie's [handwritten note: This was not same Regiment that otherwise served in] Regiments. He was in the battle of Brandywine where he was wounded in the left arm by a musket ball. He served three years.
(2) In 1802 he moved from Fauquier County, Virginia to Georgia, and in 1818 was living in Clarke County in said State aged about sixty-four years. In 1820 he moved to Alabama and lived a while in Saint Clair County.
(1) He was allowed pension from September 4, 1789 on account of disability resulting from above named wound. (3) He died December 20, 1840 in Cherokee County, Alabama.
He married in Fauquier County, Virginia, Sarah Oar, or Orr,
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who was also "raised in Fauquier County. Their marriage license was dated December 22, 1790.
[handwritten: The widow said she was married in 1791 and again said Dec. 23, 1792, so I thought to keep near the correct time, whatever it was, I'd use only court record.] She was allowed pension on her application executed October 18, 1842, at which time she was living in Cherokee County, Alabama aged about sixty-eight years.
In 1821 soldier stated that he had seven children living with him, three sons aged about sixteen, seven and four years, daughters aged about eighteen, sixteen, nine and three years, but did not given (give) their names. In 1852 the surviving children of the soldier were: Malinda Burzee? Burzer? Burger? (not plainly written), Rosa Burger, Sophia Goodwin, Sally White, Gilford Garner, Joseph Garner and John Garner, all over twenty-one years.
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
AWF
Mrs. J. B. Sanford,
Talladega,
Alabama,
Dear Madam:
November 4, 1930.
You are advised that the history of Joseph
Garner (W.7496) furnished you on December 1, 1927,
was that of the only soldier by that name found
on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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Talladega, Ala,
Oct 16th 30
To The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Will you be kind enough to send me a copy of either the war record or pensions of Joseph Garner of Alabama. He resided in Cherokee County, at the time he drew pension, in 1841.
Thanking you for this information, I am,
Very Sincerely
Mrs J. B. Sanford
Pres. M. D. C.

[postmark:  OCT 18 1930]
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Talladega, Ala.
"Highlands"
Oct. 8th, 27

Gentlemen:-
Will you give me all the information you posess [sic]  about Joseph Garner, Sen. of Cherokee County, Ala.
Also all the information you can regarding Robert Cobb  of Va--and perhaps of Ala. too.  Thanking you for the kindness, I am, Very
Respectfully, 
Mrs J. B. Sanford.
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3-049
Ex. MMVF   Div. Rev & 1812 Wars Section

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C. Oct 12, 1927

The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.

1st name of widow now dead
[marked out: No. of claim] Jemmia Garner Cobb
Name of soldier Robert Cobb

[marked out: P.O] address of [marked out: claimant] soldier at enlistment & after service
[marked out: Company]
[marked out: Regiment]
State where enlisted ____
Date of [marked out: enlistment] birth ___
Date of [marked out: discharge] death  1855 or 60 [?] at the age of 95.
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.

What war? Revolutionary

Return attached letter with reply.

Winfield Scott
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner,.
0-2463

[postmark:  U. S. PENSIONS OFFICE  A NOV. 14 1927]
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Also
Joseph Bradford Gordon
died Oct 25th 1851
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1927 - Dec. 1 - Hist. to Mrs. [blacked out] ford MMHS.
1930 - Nov 3 - Mrs. J. B. San [blacked out] not
same hist 2nd time a
1935 June 3 - Hist to Mrs. Car[blacked out]
(Rec ltr. ni Clm. S. 16819 of Sturdey Ga [blacked out]

Levy Widow, &c.

File No. 7496
Sarah Garner
Widow
Joseph Garner
Print War
Act: Feb 2d
Index:--Vol. A, Page 262
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
[illegible] No. 23. June '68
Payment to be made at Huntsville by Wm. H. Moore Esq. Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Alabama
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 355, Vol. 3.
Clerk.
H.R. Weightman
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.

I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848,
Sarah Garner
widow of Joseph Garner
who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rage of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing until 30th June 1848, unless she should again marry: in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior,
this twenty ninth day of March
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three

R McClelland
Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and Countersigned.
S. Cole
Acting Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 37

Brief in the case of Sarah Garner wid of Joseph
County and State of Alabama
act 3 Mch '43 &c
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under Acts 1818 & 1820, $96, 
She was pensioner under act 1838 at $80
She is entitled under acts '43 &c to $80 [marked out: and] to
1 July 1828 & under PRes 1 July 1848 to $56

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
C. W. Bennett Esq
Present
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Washington
Sept. 30. 1852

Honl. J. E. Heath  }
Court of Pensions}
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith the declaration of Mrs. Sally Garner widow of Joseph Garner dec'd, who was a Pensioner under act of 1818, for benefit of the act of July 7, 1838
and July 29, 1848, &c.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
C. W. Bennett
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9355
Alabama, Huntsville
Sarah Garner
widow of Joseph
who was a private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 
00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of March/53 and 
sent to 
C. W. Bennett
Present
Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.)
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2, Page 230
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington.

[postmark:  RICHMOND MAY 31]
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Office Bank United States
Richmond 30th May 1834.
Sir,
Your letter of the 29. inst. has been received, directing the payment of the amount due to Joseph Garner, a pensioner under the act of March 18, 1818--
I have had the Pension roll examined, and it appears that the name of Joseph Garner, was never inscribed upon it.
There is the name of Joseph Gardner, an Invalid, who appears to have been transferred to the State of Georgia in 1819.--
Very respectfully 
Yrs,
J. Robertson Comr

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Com'r. of Pensions
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feb 13 1843
Ala
Sally Garner
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comr. of Pensions

H. R. Chapman
H.R.
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House of Rep
Feby 11th 1843
Sir;
I beg leave to inclose you the proof required in your late letter as to the marriage of Joseph Garner with Sally Oar who now claims a pension as the widow of S'd. Joseph Garner dec'd.
I hope you will find no objection to issuing the certificate to Mrs. Garner.
With great respect
Your Ob. St.
R. Chapman

J. L. Edwards Esq  }
Com'r of Pensions}
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Abstract from the Pension agents books for the Alabama Agency showing the payments made to Joseph Garner.

Date of Payment | From what time paid | To what time paid | Amount paid
{by the agent pervious to McRiggs}
1824 Oct 30   | 4 March 1824    | 4 Septem 1824 | 48
1825 March 7 | 4 Sept. 1824     | 4 March 1825    | 48
1825 Sep't 14 | 4 March 1825   | 4 Septem 1825 | 48
1826 March 9 | 4 Septem 1825 | 4 March 1826   | 48
1826 Sep 9     | 4 March 1826   | 4 Septem 1826 | 48
1827 May 10  | 4 Septem 1826 | 4 March 1827   | 48

{By D. M. Riggs Agnt}
1827 Sep't. 24            | 4 March 1827  | 4 Septem 1827   | 48
1828 Mar 17              | 4 Sep't. 1827    | 4 March 1828     | 48
1828 Sept. 15            | 4 March 1828   | 4 Septem'r 1828 | 48
1829 March 10          | 4 Septem 1828 | 4 March 1829     | 48
1829 Sep't 16            | 4 March 1829   | 4 Sep't 1829       | 48
1830 March 5            | 4 Sep'r. 1829    | 4 March 1830     | 48
date not mentioned  | 4 March 1830   | 4 March 1831     | 96
same                         | 4 March 1831    | 4 Septem 1831  | 48

[By J Hunt & agt P. McLoskey}
1832 July 23  | 4 Septem 1831 | 4 March 1832   | 48
1833 June 10 | 4 March 1832   | 4 March 1833   | 96
1833 Sep 25  | 4 March 1833   | 4 Septem 1833 | 48
1834 April 17 | 4 Septem 1833 | 4 March 1834  | 48

True abstract from the Books
this 18th July 1834
For Ph. McLoskey Agt.
George Polp
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Mr. Brown
Transfer to Huntsville the name of Sarah Garner, & send the cert. to the Hon R. Chapman
J. L. E.
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Pension Agents Office
Mobile 18th July 1834
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Commissioner
Sir
I received some time ago your letter of the 29 of May directing me to pay the amount due to Joseph Garner--and today I received his claim for pension from the 4th of March 1825 to the 4th of March 1826 and from the 4th of Septem 1826 to the 4th of March 1827. On reference to a former claim for this pension I found by your letter of the 27 Jany 1832, that you required to know from this agency how much was due to Joseph Garner, as by the Treasury Books it appeared that payments were due him for parts of the year 1825, 1826, & 1827, and that  you were informed by my predecessor on the 1st of March 1832 that by the Books of this Agency it did not appear that any thing was due to Joseph Garner he having received the whole of his pension for the years 1825 1826 & 1827.  As the claim however seems to be persisted in I forward you herewith an abstract from the Books of this agency showing the date of the payments made to him from 1824 to 1834 which will enable you to refer readily to his duplicate receipt that no doubt accompanied the quarterly return of the agent prior to my performing the duties of that office.
You will
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be pleased to observe that this claim is for pension alleged to be unpaid previous to the discharge of the duties of pension agent here--for that I have no receipts for the payments prior to July 1832--W. Riggs, the agent that paid the pensions before W. Hunt who preceded me, not having handed over any receipt with the other papers.
I am very respect'f Yours
Philipp McLoskey Agt.
by George Polp

I shall defer the payment to Mrs. Garner until I receive your reply to this letter.
Page 48

Joseph Garner [marked out: is] was paid in Georgia to the 4th of March 1820, then transfered [sic] to Alabama and paid at that Agency to the 4th of March 1831 with the exception of the payments from [marked out: Sept] March 1825 to March 1826 and from Sept 1826 to March 1827.
2d. Comptrollers Office
J. M. Brodhead.
Page 49

To what time [marked out: and at what rate] was Joseph Garner last paid in Georgia and to what time was he last paid in Alabama?  He is on the Revo. Roll.
Respectfully
J. L. Edwards
Jan 25, 1832

4th March 1831
No payment made to Joseph Garner
on the Georgia Roll--his name is not on that Roll--he has bee
paid in Alabama to the 4th March 1831.
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2.77
7
19.39
92
52
$21.23
 152.58 3/4
$173.81 3/4

Garner's Paper.

34 1/3
34.6.8
11.8 10 1/2
45.15.6 1/2
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War Department
Pension Office
January 27. 1832

Sir.
In the case of Joseph Garner I have to report that he was paid his pension as an Invalid in Virginia up to the 4th of September 1815 at $2.77 1/3 per month, and from that time to the 24th of April 1816, he is entitled to that sum per month, and from the 24' April 1816 to the 4th of March 1819 his pension is still due in Virginia at $4.44 4/9 per month.  His name was then transferred to the Georgia Roll.  He was paid in Georgia from 4th March 1819 to 4th March 1820 at eight dollars per month.  From that Roll he was transferred to the State of Alabama where he has been paid to the 4th of March 1831, with the exception of the payments from 4th March 1825 to t4 March 1826, and from 4th of September 1826 to 4 March 1827.  The Pension
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Agents at Richmond and Mobile will be directed to pay him on the production of the proper vouchers.  I am unable to account for his not receiving the amount due.  The letters of the Hon. S. W. Mardis and Mr. Barker are herewith returned.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Yr. Obt. Servt
J. L. Edwards

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
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FREE 25

J L Edwards Esq
War Department
Pension Office
Washington

[postmark:  MOBILE  MAR]
Page 54


Office Bk of the U S at Mobile 
Mobile 1 Mch 1832
Sir
By the books of this agency it does not appear that there is anything due Joseph Garner - he has received the whole of his pension for the years 1825 - 1826 & 1827
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Jona Hunt
pension agent

J L Edwards Esq
Washington
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Hon. R. Chapman
Dec 16 '42
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174
Pen Off
Dec. 16, '42
Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Mrs Sarah Garner has been examined and her papers filed under the act of 7 July 38-
The proof of service and of her being the widow of Joseph Garner, late pensioner in the Alabama agency is satisfactory but the date of the marriage should be established by some record public or private. The issue of the license in Fauquier County may furnish the requisite proof
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 1th, 1842.

Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
The widow of Joseph Garner, deceased, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mobile, Alabama Agency, at the rate of Eight _____ Dollars and ____ Cents per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this department, from the 4th of Sept. 1840, to the 20th Dec. 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Albion H. Parris
COMPTROLLER.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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Seal Stamped
Richmond
Oct 11

J. L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Page 59

Office Bank U. S.
Richmond 11. October 1834.


Sir,
The vouchers of Joseph Garner, a Revolutionary pensioner, have been presented at this agency claiming arrears of Pension from the 4 Sept. 1815 to the 4 March 1819-at which time he was transferred to the Pension Roll of Alabama. The claim is sanctioned by yourself, in a letter of the 29th of May 1834. In that letter you say that orders were sent on that day to this agency, to pay what might appear to be due to the Pensioner, but I cannot find that such order was received here, nor any letter or instructions on the subject. The vouchers appear to be in due form; and it appears from the Books, that the Pensioner was not paid for any part of the time for which he claims. Still, I do not feel satisfied to pay it, without directions from you.
G
Page 60

I am, very respectfully
Your obedient
J. Robertson 


J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
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War Department No.11.397
Pension Office
May 24th, 1822
Sir:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid, at the ensuing semi-annual payment in September next, the sum that may be then due from the time of suspending your pension. Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. Joseph Garner,
U. S. Pensioner.
of St. Clair County, Alabama,
Care of John Cumming, Esqr
Savannah,
Georgia
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Perry Cty  12 Nov. 1822

Leroy Pope Esqr.

Sir.  Mr. Joseph Garner owes one hundred & three dollars to Gabriel A Moffitt on which amount his pension papers have come into my hands.  He pledges himself to leave that money in your hands.  And as he appears to be in great necessity and I can not go with him, I deliver him all his papers.

It will be taken as a special favour if you will attend to the case.  And send the money to me by mail to Perry Courthouse or signify its intention so that I can command it by order.

Mr. Garner tells me that you had written to me since he was here before, if so the letter has been miscarried.

With [illegible] respect
Your &c
Temple Lee

I hereby consent to & promise to comply with the contents of the above writing for labor rec'd Nov. 12th 1822
Joseph Garner  X his mark
Page 63

There is a pension of ten pounds per annum which stands in the name of Joseph Gardner on the books of the office, and which has been regularly drawn up to September in the year 1815 by a person who says his name is Joseph Garner but who has proved himself to be the soldier for whom the pension was intended & to whom it was originally granted. There is no pension in the name of Joseph Garner.
United States Loan Office State of Virginia
14th May 1879
Thos N. Page P. C.
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The Honble
The Secretary of War
City of Washington

FREE

[STAMP]
[illegible]
May 20
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In Council-October 27th, 1788
It appearing that Joseph Garner comes within the requisition of the pension law.
It is advised that he be continued on the pension list with an allowance of ten pounds per annum from January seventeen hundred and eighty six.

Council Chamber May 17, 1819
I do certify that the above is a true copy of an advice of Council, taken from the Journal of Executive proceedings in this office-Given under my hand as clerk of the Council this date above written.
Wm. Robertson C. C.
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[illegible


Mr. Gilford Garner
Double Springs
Cherokee County
Alabama


mail


853
Sarah Garner
Alabama
Act 7 July 38
Admt.
2 yrs pri
80

Mobile agency

Hon. R. Chapman
H.R.
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Georgia
Clark County

Clerks Office, Superior Court

I, John Calvin Johnson Clerk of said Court hereby certify that Lanah Burger and Charles G. Burger who certify to the foregoing facts are persons of known probity and veracity, worthy of credit in any Court of Justice.

Given under my hand & seal of office at office this 26th day of August 1842

John Calvin Johnson, Clerk
Page 68

free
Secretary of war 
Washington City

Jesse C Roberts
Clk C.C.

[left side]
Mr. Edwards

[right side]
Alabama 
Rec'd 29 Jan: 1822
Page 69

State of Alabama
St Clair County

I Jesse C Roberts Clerk of the circuit court of law & equity for the county and state afforesaid [sic] do hereby certify that the foregoing is a complete record of all the matters & things ordered to be sent on to the war department of the United States of and concerning the said Joseph Garner a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  Whereunto I have affixed my private seal of office there being at present official seal in Offc this the 20th day of March 1821.

Jesse C Roberts
Clerk CCL&E
Page 70

City of Richmond to wit

Joseph Garner this day appeared before me a magistrate for the City aforesaid and made oath that he is the same Joseph Garner whom the Secretary of War directed to be placed on the list of pensioners at the rate of two dollars seventy seven cents and five sixth per month   That he served in the first Virginia Regiment under the command of Colo. Christie at the time he was drafted   That he now resides in the County of Clarke and State of Georgia and has resided therein for fourteen years previous to which time he resided in the County of Fauquier and State of Virginia.

Given under my hand this 8th day of September 1815

Preston Smith

United States Loan Office State of Virginia 8th Sept 1815.

Received of Thomas Nelson agent for paying invalid pensioners the sum of fifty dollars and one cent for my pension as one of the United States pensioners for eighteen months from the 4th March 1814 to the 5th September 1815 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.

Joseph Garner  X his mark

Test.
Thomas N. Page
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Treasury Department
Registers Office  27 Jany 1832

I do hereby certify that the aforegoing affidavit and Receipt of Joseph Garner, is a true copy of the original on file in my office.
T Smith
Reg. of the Treasury

Having carefully examined the [illegible] office acct, the above appears to be the last receipt of Joseph Garner
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[BEGIN CROSSED OUT SECTION]
State of Alabama
County of Cherokee SS

Be it known, that on this twenty first day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Garner a resident  of  the State of Alabama in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the widow of Joseph Garner, deceased who was a Revolution Pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum;  that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased;  that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sarah Garner  X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
Daniel C. Turrentine
J. Peace.
[END CROSSED OUT SECTION]

I, Daniel C. Turrentine Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Sarah Garner who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interest in said claim as therein set forth.
Danl. C. Turrentine  J. Peace.



The State of Alabama Cherokee County
I, William E. McDaniel Judge of the Court of Probate of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Daniel C. Turrentine before whom the foregoing & attached 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 subscribed, is his signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my  name and affixed my official Seal, this twenty third day of February A.D. 1852
William E. McDaniel
Judge of Probate

[SEAL]
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I Sarah Garner of Cherokee County in the State of Alabama do
hereby constitute and appoint C W Bennett my
true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of myself
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorized 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 me at the Alabama Agency
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.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this twenty first day of February A. D. 1852
Sarah --- her mark --- Garner
work
SIGNED AND SEALED IN THE PRESENCE OF
Geo  S Walden
Daniel C Turrentine
Justice of the Peace


State of Alabama
COUNTY OF Cherokee
SS.
On this Twenty first day of February A. D. 1852
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared 
Sarah Garner 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.
Daniel C. Turrentine J. Peace
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Joseph Garner
Affidavit
Page 75

Georgia
Oglethorpe County

Joseph Garner of the County of Clark in said State came personally before me & made oath that he is placed upon the Pension list in the State of Virginia, in consequence of rewards received during the revolutionary war, but whether under the authority of the Laws of the United States or of the State of Virginia he does not know, but he is entitled to & received a pension at Richmond Virginia at the rate of ten pounds Virginia currency per year.  That he has received this pension ever since he was a pensioner until the last three years, during which in consequence of the distance he had to go for it, he has not applied.  That the certificate which was given him of his being placed on the pension role he put into the hands of one William Stanton, at that time of Farquaher County
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Virginia, above eighteen years age, for the purpose of his receiving & ending the pension to this deponent.  That he never drew or sent him any--that the said Stanton moved away to parts unknown to this deponent, & that he afterwards had to make an affidavit & establish his identity (which he did by Judge John Marshall who was his lieutenant in the Revolutionary war) upon which it has been since paid him.  And he saith that the said certificate is not now in his possession, custody or power.  The deponent further saith that on the previous role he has been sometimes called Joseph Gardner, at this his name is Garner.
Joseph  his X mark  Garner
Sworn to before me 
this 10th day of April 1819
Elisha Strong J.J.C.
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14.802 - Act July '38
1.184  -   "      "    '48
Oct 14/52
Sarah Alias Sally Garner,
Widow of Joseph,
Ala.
Act of July 7th 1838 &
July 29th 1848
C. W. Bennett,
Present
Page 78

The State of Alabama
Cherokee County SS
Be it known that on this Twentieth
day of August in the year one thousand Eight
hundred and fifty two, personally appeared before the undersigned the Judge of the Court of Probate ------ in and for the said County, and which Court is a Court of Record: Sarah Garner, alias Sally Garner, a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy six years, who is to me known, and who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, and of the act approved July 29th 1848. That she is the widow of Joseph Garner, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act of
18th March 1818, at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Garner, in Fauquier County in the State of Virginia on the 23rd day of December 1792, and that she has remained a widow ever since the ninteenth day of October 1840, the day of the death of the said Joseph Garner as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Sarah --- her mark ---Garner
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written, and I further certify that owing to the body infinity of the said declarant she was and is unable to attend and take the same in open court. I administered the oath at the residence of Joseph Garner in said County on the date aforesaid, and that I am by law both Judge and
Clerk of said Court, as witness my hand & seal of office
this day & date above written
William E Mc Daniel
Judge of Probate C. C.
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State of Alabama
County of Cherokee Ss.
I __________________do
hereby certify that the above --------------
before whom the foregoing declaration or affidavit
was taken and who has thereunto subscribed his
name, was at the time of so doing
 ______________ of the Court of _____________
held in and for said County, which court is a Court
of Record, and that the said______________
was duly
commissioned & sworn, and that his signature is
genuine
In testimony whereof I have
have hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed my official seal as Clerk
of the Court of _____________
a Court of Record, this __________ day
of              A.D. 1852

Transversally written:
14.802 - Act July '38
Ala
4
July 29th 1848
Widow of Joseph
S
Act of July 7th 1838 &
Sarah Alias Sally Garner
of
A.D. 1852.
Present
C.W. Bennett,
Page 80

Extract from law passed Oct: Upon 1785.
---
---
(Sec VIII)
Be it enacted that all pensioners shall undergo a reexamination
whenever the Governor with advice of Council shall direct; and upon
any such re examination, the Executive are hereby authorized and required
to order the allowance of the Pensioner to be raised or reduced according to
his or her real situation; or in case the allowance shall appear to
be no longer necessary in any degree, to order such Pensioner to be shuckoff from the list altogether.
In Council Jany. 21st 1790
The Board, took under consideration the eighth section of the act of the
General Assembly to amend the act concerning pensioners - whereupon
it is advised that a circular letter be written to the several County
Courts, requiring a reexamination of the pensioners in their respective
Counties payable by this State and a special report of their respective
situations, specifying age, disability; number and ages of children & indigency
of circumstances, previous to their being continued on the pension list for
the year 1790
Copy Test
Wm Robertson, C.C.
Page 81

I certify that Joseph Garner received four warrants for an
account of his pension allowed to him by the State of Virginia,
the last one issued on the 25 Octo. 1780 and that he is no
longer Continued on the list of pensioners.
Mr. Brefootland
Richmond Accor off: 4 May
1849.
Page 82

Sarah Garner, widow 
of Joseph, Cherokee Co
adm'd 3 March '43  Ala
2d Feby  17 June 44 1848 Js Res 1 July 1848
2 yrs pri  $80 p an fnm
4 March 1842 to
1 July 1848  &
at 96 pr ann fnm
1 July 1848


Cert to
C. W. Bennett Esq
Present
Page 83

Georgia Clark Conty [sic] August 24 1842
Brother Gilford I Received your letter of the 17 July last
Fridy [sic] and has [sic] taken up my pen to answer your dozen questions
and as charity begins at home I shal [sic] commence at my own fammily [sic] first witch[sic] at this time is en joying a Reasonable shear [share] of helth[sic] and as I think mother Garner has bin [sic] hear [sic] since Gebron was mared [sic] I Shal [sic] only state that he has Bought the peace of land that Robert Melvin settled and is doing tolerable well but he speaks of seling [sic] out and coming to your country and is a going to
start thar [sic] nex [sic] weak [sic] to hunt him a plase [sic] and says shal [sic] se [sic] you all before he returns William maried [sic] Eliza Garner Suzannah maried [sic] David Beasly ? maried [sic] Pegy Beasley Tereasy
mared a man by the name of dillan a native of Ireland and
Jacob mared Poley Wood's daughter and Jasper is yet single so
my family consists of myself wife and three last Boys
my two old sisters is living still at that same plase wher Lemuel
own lived and makes out very wel I have generaly tended part of
that Land until this year but my big boys leaving me has
put it out of my power the crops in Georgia is to levable good
but just in our settlement has sufered for one but I think
we shal make any but cotton is low money scarce and times
hard but Coffey shuger & Baker and Every thing is in purpotion
to the hardnes of the time of her pursons are not in debt whar
they are they see sights they sed Levy Seland  tare one an others
truk from them with out murcy
You stated that old mother Garner wished me to procure
Japly Hinson certificate concerning her marriage but that is
out of my power for I have no power to rase the did and he has bin
ded six or eight years But will do all I can for her and take it
for granted she was maried or went to be as she is getting so young
as you stated tel her the old man Huff is not ded yet but has bin ?
for a long time before he dies and then she she will mary she may perhaps getbe able to Right on to hung she may perhaps get hear in time
to mary him before he dies and then she wil be able to Right on to
Virginia and get a copy from the Records of her other marrage
and by so doing she may kill two birds at one fling for it will cause her
anger and make her a sound as well as a young woman for I have no doubt cold do it in two weeks
I know of but little more to right Melinda sends her love to you all and wants you to let her know how many children your wife left behind when she departed and says you had beter still in joy your happynes of a single
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Life and be the last of your children that gluts than appe
late on a mater a monal life perhaps a curs on you the ladence
of your days pleas Right to me as soon as cort is over and
let me know how old mother gets on with her pension you
will see  below the certificate of me and my old Sister Witch is
all can do in so short a time but shold she sale and Wil let
me know what she wants me to do and wil sure her to the utmost
of my power than is my old Brother the burnt that is
grate all older than me if he knows anything perhaps he
send us somthing that will benefit her case you will pleas
Excuse my Short and disintrusting letter and as time leds
me to be conclude but not without remaning your
frend and
Brother
C. G.  Burger

Georgia
Clarke County
I do certify that I have known Joseph Garner and Sary Garner his wife for more than fifty years and
Beliave them to be a man and wife I did not see them
mared Being small but I distincktly Recollect that they came
by my farthers a going to the parsons the methodist preacher
that lived on part of my farthers land not more than one half
Mild from my farthers to get mared with the waters a long
and I as mutch believe they are lawfully married as though
I had seen the performance this the 25 August 1842
Leamnah Burger

Georgia
Clarke Conty ⎬ I do certify that I have known Joseph Garner and
Sally Garner his wife for more than forty years when
first and simply recolect them they had three
children and living in Fauquier in the State of Virginia in a
pious settlement what they had bouth him Rage and lived
as man and wife until the fall of 1802 when they moved to
Georgia and in the fall of 1802 my farther moved to the same
settlement what we found them still as man and wife
they remained in Georgia many years when they moved to Alabames
and no person dare dispute that being Lawfully mared and
do as mutch beleave they are lawfully mared as though &
had heard the ceremony performed this 25th August 1842
C G Burger
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8333
Alabama



Act 7 July 1838
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The State of Alabama ⎬
Cherokee County
Be it known that on this 21st day
of February 1852, personally appear
ed before the undersigned, an acting Justice of the Peace
within and for the County and State aforesaid, Sarah
Garner, alias Sally Garner, a resident of the County
& State aforesaid, aged seventy six years, who is
personally well known to me, & who being first due
by sworn according to law, doth on her oath make
the following declaration, in order to obtain the
benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed
July 4th 1836. & of the act of Congress approved
July 29th 1848. That she is the widow of Joseph
Garner, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of
the United States, under act of 18th March 1818,
at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per annum
She further declares that she was married to
the said Joseph Garner, in Fauquier County, in
the State of Virginia about the    day of
December 1792, and that she has remained a
widow ever since; as will more fully appear
by a reference to the proof hereto annexed
she further declares that she received a certifi
cate, as the widow of the said Joseph Garner,
from the Pension office of the United States,
for
dollars (amount not precisely recollec-
ted, it being the amount of Pension due her
said husband at the time of his death which
certificate she surrendered to the Pension a-
gent at Huntsville about April or May 1843 on receiving the said
amount for which said certificate was drawn;
she respectfully refers to the evidence of her
marriage to the said Joseph Garner now on file
in the Pension office
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day
and date first above written, and I further
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certify that I will know the said declarant; that the
facts stated in her said declaration are en-
titled to full credit; & that she resided more than
twenty miles from any Court of Record, and
is by reason of extreme bodily infirmity unable
to travel such distance.
D.C. Turrentine
Justice of the Peace
Sarah --- her mark ---Garner
mark

The State of Alabama
Cherokee County ⎬ On the 21st day of February
1852, personally appeared be
fore the undersigned an acting Justice of the
Peace within and for the County & State aforesaid
Jacob Burger, aged Seventy two years, who
being duly sworn according to law, doth
on his oath depose & say; That he is per
sonally acquainted with Sarah (alias Sally)
Garner, who has this day appeared before
me & taken the above & foregoing oath
& declaration of identity; that he was not
present at the said marriage of the above declarant
with the said Joseph Garner; but
that he then lived near them & well rec-
ollets the time; that said marriage took
place about the time by her above stated
that he lived near them & will know
the said Sarah & the said Joseph, first
in Virginia, then in Georgia, & after
wards in Alabama down to the death
of the said Joseph, about 1840; that they
lived together as husband & wife during
all that time & ever so refered that
he has lived near the said Sarah ever
since the death of her said husband &
known her intimately, & that he has
not since intermaried, but his si-
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continued the widow of the said Joseph
Garner,
Jacob Burger
Sworn to and subscribed
before me day & year first above written, and I further
certify that I well know the said Jacob Bur
ger, that I believe he is of the age by him
above stated, & that the facts by him a
above deposed to are entitled to full
faith & credit.
-
Danil C. Turrentine
Justice of the peace


The State of Alabama 
Cherokee County      ⎬

I William E. McDaniel
Judge of Probate of Cherokee County aforesaid do
certify that Daniel C. Turrentine before whom
the foregoing papers were executed, is and
was at the date thereof an acting Justice
of the Peace within & for said County duly authorized (crossed out text: to administer oaths) by law
to administer oaths, and that the name thereunto subscribed is his own signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name & affixed my offi-
cial seal, this twenty first day of Feb-
ruary 1852

William E. Mc Daniel
Judge of Probate CC
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State of Alabama
St. Clair County
                         ⎬
Circuit Court April Term 1822
Personally appeared in open Court being a County
Record according to the constitution and laws of the State of Alabama
Joseph Garner aged about sixty six years resident resident in the
said County of S. Clair, who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath declare that he served during the Revo
lationary war as follows (viz) in Captain William Blackwell
Company of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment commanded when
he enlisted by Colonel Fubecker, that he is now a pensioner
under the act of Congress of the 18th March AD 1818, that his
Original Declaration (illegible crossed out text) bears oath as he believes in
September 1818 to which refer the same as being in the War
Department for the particulars of his service. That his Certif
icate is numbered              and bears date at the
War office of the United States on the
day of
And I do solemnly swear that I was a
resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of
March 1818 and that I have not since that time
by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or
any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
bring myself within the provission of an act of Congress
entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
was passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not
nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities
contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other
than
what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, viz
"three sows, three hoe,s two axes, one pot & one oven". I also
below and swear that by occupation I am a farmer to
pursue which by ability daily decreases, that I cannot labour
hard on account of an injury done in my left arm by a
musket ball received from the Enemy in the battle of Brandy
Wine, that I have in family a wife upwards of forty five
years of age and that I have living with me six children
viz three girls the Eldest about twenty years old the rest
about fourteen or fifteen and the third about
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twelve, the Eldest of the boys a little over eighteen years of age, the second about nine and the third about four years old
Sworn to in open
Court April the 8th
1822.
Joseph X Garner
his mark
Jesse C Roberts
Clerk Cir Ct

State of Alabama
St Clair County
Circuit Court of law and Equity
April Term 1822
I Abner S Lipscomb presiding Judge in the Court aforesaid Do Certify that Joseph Garner whose name is subscribed to the above declaration came personally into open Court and was sworn to the truth of the facts set forth in said Declaration, and I do further Certify that the property set forth in the foregoing Schedule from the Evidence before me does not exceed in value the sum of twenty one dollars and fifty cents & I do order the Clerk of this Court to Certify & Deliver the proceedings herein to the said Joseph Garner

Witness Abner Lipscomb presiding Judge of said Court this 9th day of March 1822
Abner Lipscomb (seal)

State of Alabama
St Clair County
I Jesse Roberts Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State afforesaid do hereby certify that the above affidavit was administered in Open Court whereunto I have affixed my hand and affixed my private seal there being at present no official seal in Office

Jesse C Roberts Clerk C.C.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Name: Garner, Peter
Grade: Private
Line: Pennsylvania
Warrant number: 9494
Acreage: 100 
Issued: June 17, 1791 to Mary Ripley, Admx.
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.