Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38726, George Gill, S.C.
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SERVICE S.C. 
Gill, George 
NUMBER S.38726
Rev. Wayne Co. Tenn. in 1823
& died in Tenn. Dec 3 1833.
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18981
West Tennesse
George Gill
Of Wayne Co in the state of Tennesse
who was a private in the Comp 7 command
by Captain Brown of the Regiment command
by Colonel Sumpter in the S. Carol
line, for the term of 18 month. year 177.
On Roll
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennese
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 25' of March 1823
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of May 182[?]
and [????]
William Barnett, Lawrenceberg

Arrears to 4th
Semi anl. all'ce ending Sept 1823
$42.80
$42.80
5 mos7/31 6/30
8
40
1.80
1.6
42.86
Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.
Mar: 1. 182[?]
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Jno M McDougal Aug 16 1855
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18,840
George Gill
Wayne Co. Tenn

Wm Barnett
Lawrenceburg, Tenn

Recd 28 May 1823
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Schedule
State of Tennessee  }
Wayne County Court }  March Term 1823

On this 25th day of March 1823 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County of Wayne & State aforesaid created by Statute and of intemitent civil jurisdiction on the law side of said Court, Georg Gill aged seventy years on the fifteenth day of February 1823 resident in the County of Wayne and State of Tennessee who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted under William Brown Captain in the State of South Carolina, Camden District, now Chester County in the month of December 1775 and marched to Charleston in the month of April 1776 or thereabouts for the Term of eighteen months, that he served in the company commanded by the said William Brown in the first Regiment of Riflemen commanded by Colonel Thomas Sumpter of the South Carolina line in the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the same company & Regiment until he was discharged at [illegible] Savanah in Santee River in said State of S.C. in the month of June the 15th day, being the June after the British first attacked Charleston, that he lost the said discharge forty years ago, that he was in the Battle of Middletowns in the Cherokee Nation when Genl Williamson fought the Indians there, that this is the first application for a pension, that he has no other testimony in his power except his own oath at this time but that James McGaughey who lives in Giles County he hopes can prove something & he will endeavour to procure his testimony, that any family
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consists of myself aged as aforesaid a farmer by trade & am wholly unable to support myself, my Daughter Matty aged 18 years healthy & Slant & my daughter Nancy aged 16 years unhealthy & unable to support herself & my wife aged 60 years on the 11th day of May unhealthy for her age 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 Land or in any other manner disposed of my property or any Land thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons enjagaged in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or secured contracts in debts due to me has have not any income other what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed 
    his
George X Gill
   mark

1 set of smith tools
1 old horse fifteen years old
1 mare 7 years old [illegible] hands high
1 small colt 4 Cows & 5 Calves
1 Three year old Steer & one heifer
1 saw & six rigs 1 Chest 1 table
3 pots one Small I should & one
   [illegible] plow 2 dishes 2 Bowls
2 Dutch ovens for making sugar/[illegible
1 small Pair of [illegible]
  I owe one hundred dollars now due
  & have no money to pay it & cannot 
  get it until I sell the said property to 
 do so
      his
George X Gill
    mark
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Sworn to & subscribed in open Court on the 25th day of March 1823 and ordered to be recognized
Wm Barnett  Clerk

I William Barnett Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions [illegible] for the County of Wayne & State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Two hundred & sixty two dollars fifty cents without deducting what he owes 
In February whereof I have hereunto set my hand  and affixed my hereunto seal this being [illegible] on this 26th day of March 1825

Wm Barnette Clerk
of Wayne County Court
Private Seal
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State of Tennessee }
Giles County    }   Personally appeared James McGaughey before us John B Armstrong & John Laird, two acting Justices of the peace for the said County and being lawfully sworn deposeth & sayeth that he was personally acquainted with George Gill now living in Wane County of sd State and ever since the commencement of the old revolutionary war and that some time during the said war he Enlisted in the Continental service as a soldier for eighteen months and served under Captain William Brown at that time living in the State of South Carolina & in Colonel Sumpters Regement, and the deponant further declares that he has been personally acquainted with the said George Gill ever since -- Sworn & subscribed to before us this 2nd day of April 1823
Attest John B Armstrong JP
                             James McGaughey,
John Laird JP           seal

We and each of us do certify that the oath of James McGaughey is entitled to full credit.
    John R. Armstrong JP
    John Laird  JP
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State of Tennessee
   Giles county [illegible]
  I German Lester clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions holden for the county aforesaid do certify that John B. Armstrong & John Laird whose names are signed to the within certificate are & were at the time of assigning the same acting justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Pulaski this 26th day of April A D 1823
   German Lester  Clk
   By his [illegible]
   James Burke

State of Tennessee
Giles County
   I Nelson Patteson Chairman of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions holden for the said County do hereby certify that German Lester whose name is Subscribed to the foregoing Certification is clerk of the Said Court duly Qualified and that faith & credit is due to all his official acts.  Given under my hand and seal this 26 day of April 1823
   N Patteson  Chm G.C. Court
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[Appears to be an envelope.  Written sideways on the envelope as follows:]

George Gill
Sen a 18 mo - 9878
1818

[Postmark on the envelope as follows:]
WAYNESBORO
AUG
8
TE

[Oriented as an envelop, as follows:]
L P Waldo Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Waynesboro Tennessee
August 6, 1855

Comr of Pensions
Dr Sir
Nancy Lynch is the daughter of George Gill who was a revolutionary Solder and a pensioner but died the 2nd Decr 1833 in the County of Hardin, Tennessee & drew a pension on the 15th Oct 1833 which was the last draw he made  his widow Jennit Gill died July 2nd 1844, leaving her daughter Nancy, the only surviving child
    Now what we want to know is whither Nancy Lynch is entitled to the balance of the pension which was due her father at the time of his death and whither or not she would be entitled the pension which would have been due her mother as widow of said George Gill and of, see which proof will be necessary,
   Please give me such information on the subject as you may think necessary,
    Respectfully
    John McDougal
P.S. 
If you think Mrs Lynch entitled you will please Enclose with your answer the necessary forms.  J McDougal.
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38726
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 38726
George Gill
Pri    Rev War

Act:  18th March 18--

Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 195
Arrangement of 1870