Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6119, for Davis Lane, Georgia
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Lane, Davis      R6119
Elizabeth
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answered by Secr of 
War on 15 Aug. 46


War Dept
Ans August 15/46
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                                                                     Mandate Office 
J.L. Edwards Esq.                            Savannah Aug 11th 1846
Comander of Pensions
for
     In obedience to instructions from this to city Ga Attorney
I proceeded on the 30th to talk to Jasper County for arrest Wm. Maxey.
     I arrived near his residence on the 2 I was here back from H ???attend his last so been since the 3 of July. While at Monticello the Post Master furnished me with a letter from Wm Kilgore dated at Decatur 22 July requesting him to forward any letters in his office for him, to Atlanta (11 miles from Decatur) we made up a decoy & mailed it for Atlanta. I wrote to the Post Master at Atlanta on the subject at work there arriving one day after the letter dispatched the 7th. It had not been called for. I left a power with the PM to arrest & send at once to the Marshal of Athens.  The warrant I left at Monticello with the PM who was just to find us a deputy for this occasion. # It is most likely Maxey will be lurking about his home at his property say 2 or 3 negroes and a small patch of land with an indifferent house were attached on the night of the 3 Isn't under the land of Geo that "the debtor has removed or is about removing from the State". and it is ... (continued on next page)

Written up left side: # unbeknown to any human in Jasper County
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probable he will seek interviews with his friends & endeavor to run off his negroes.
     Maxey has a wife, but no children, his parents are living; respectable & well off; he has also a brother a trader of great respectability in Monticello; and Col J Hill is his special partner. The brother was the P.M. at Monticello before the present incumbent.
     Mr. Cohen since my return has handed me your letter of the 28th with its enclosure "WK's" letter. I shall to day send forward a decoy letter to Dahlonega.
     It is my opinion Maxey can be taken but the expenses necessary will be large and from past experience, the Marshal does not feel like incurring much expense without special authority to that purpose from the department.
     Maxey is somewhat of a vagabond, is of intemperate & quarrelsome habits & an outcast almost, from his family.
               I have the honor to be
               Very respectfully
               Your (illegible)
               Jos Bancroft
               D/Marshal Desk Geo
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James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensioners
Washington 
D.C
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Forsyth Munroe County GA.
June 24 1846

Sir
     On the 21st of this month I received from Hon. A. H. Stubbard of the House of Rep. a letter enclosing record making out a claim in form of Mrs. Elizabeth Willson for a pension under the act of July 4th 1836, stating also that the Department believed the papers to be a forgery and in pursuance of authority he had received to expect an agent to investigate the matter requesting me to act in that capacity.
     I left Crawfordville on the night of the 21st as inst. and the next day arrived at Monticello Jasper County when the letter enclosing the papers to you was mailed. When inquiring I became entirely satisfied that the name of William Kilgore is an assumed one - there being no man in the county answering to it. I was also able to identify the handwriting of the papers and they are all in a handwriting which Col. Joshua Hill (a lawyer of Monticello) will testify to be that of John Maxey who is second lieutenant of Capt. Davis Lane's company certifies to his death oe. The Post Master at Monticello also stated that John Maxey was in the habit of inquiring for items for William Kilgore. Also that he had taken out one package with that address. The same I presume of which Kilgore acknowledged the verification in his atty enclosing the claim
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of Mrs. Willson. If you desire still further confirmation I suggest that you might direct still another package to the address of William Kilgore and the Postmaster at Monticello will observe particularly who receives it. Maxey was represented to me as a man of good family but himself of suspicious character.
     Yesterday I came to this place in further pursuit of the investigation and I have been able to learn from Elbridge G. Cabiniss (Clerk of Ordinary and Superior Court in this county) that there is no such man as William Kilgore in this county - also that a few months ago a man from Jasper County came here and examined the Record of marriages with particular references to this marriage of Davis Lane and Elizabeth Willson but that he got drunk and did not take the clerk's certificate to the record though he had stated he wanted it. Also, Cabiniss states that he should know that man if he were to see him again and when my inquiring whether he knew his name he replied he thought it was Maxey (underlined). Mr. Cabiniss also states that an other man who claimed kindred with Mr. Lane did subsequently obtain his certificate to the record of his marriage and the license for it. I also examined the record and I find that the license was granted by Elias Beall as clerk and the certificate of marriage made by Allen Rawe J. P.
     These are all the facts which I have (continued on next page)
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been able to discover. I might have found other persons to prove the handwriting of Maxey but caution against giving him intimation of the investigation prevented further inquiries. But other evidence for that purpose can be had before the trial.
     I now in accordance with the instructions of Mr. Stephens enclose to you the papers which enclosed to me as well the papers made out by Kilgore as the copy of those subsequently made out by an other person.
     being Respectfully
     Linton Stephens

P.S. I believe I have not stated that Mr. Cabiniss utterly repudiated the signatures imputed to him in the claim made out by Kilgore.  
     Linton Stephens

(at bottom of page, extreme left)
James L. Edwards
Comm. of
Pensions
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S. Cohen 12 July 46
  "            29   "  "
U. S. Marshall 4 Sep. "
Wm Kilgore 8  "  "
Postmr Dahlonega 8  "  "
U.S. Marshall "  "  "
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FORM

6119
P.O. _____
Elizabeth Lane
Service:_____
Enlisted:_____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____Recognized.  _____Contract
_____Cert. of Dis.  Searched for _____, 18

(All lines are blank except for name)

(Stamped in Upper right-hand corner): REJECTED
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6687
Elizabeth Lane Davis 
Georgia 
Act. 4 July 36
1st Section -
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James L Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pension
Washington Cty 
DC

Vertical writing on left side:
Nov. 11/45
Affidavit of
John Greene
fr Commiss
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Smithfield Nov 5, 1845

Enclosed, I send you the affidavit of Mr. John Green he has requested me to forward it to you. In explanation of a little he says he received from you some time last summer.

     Yours Respectfully,
     Thos Bugley
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J. L. Edwards Esq.  
Pension Office
Washington

(written vertically just past address on right):
July 11, 1846
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Savannah 6 July 1846

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington

Dear Esq,
You of the 2nd instant to Mr. Jackson U.S. Attorney for the district of Georgia relative to the institution of proceedings safe with a vendor for our attempt to defraud the government - way accounts and offences by me. Mr. Jackson is absent from the State. The commander of a Company in this City which has gone to the Rio Grande. After the required appearables in Columbus, I was elected Colonel.
Prior to his departure he left me in charge of the bad info of his office with the aspect of the district judge.
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The business of the Government will not therefore in any manner be retainer of the papers and sent on.
     Respectfully
     Solomon Cohen