Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7047, Joseph Hughes, S.C.
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SERVICE
S.C.

Hughes, Joseph

NUMBER
S.7047

Carded
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The State of South Carolina
Newberry District -
 I. Young. I. Harrington Clerk of Court of General Session & Common Pleas in and for the District & State Aforesaid do hereby certify that
it appears on read in my office by the affidavit of Thomas Denson that Jospeh Hughes and Sarah Shaw were married in this District by John Speak (Magistrate) on the 20th day of September 1790, and that from said marriage they had five children of whom Thomas I Hughes is one, and the only one now known to be living as shewn by said record and that the said Sarah died in the year 1807 and also that the said Joseph Hughes died in the year 1844 on the 20th day of April.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of our said Court this first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Eigh and Seventy second year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Y. I Harrington
Clerk. CGs
& C. P    N Duly
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Clarksville, Habersham County, Georgia
Sept, 16, 1851

Sir,
We addressed you a few weeks ago on the subject of the money drawn from the U.S. Government by Thomas j. Hughes of this county, as  a pension due to his father the late Joseph Hughes for alleged services in the revolutionary army.

We deem it proper to state to you more particularly the grounds of our interest in the matter we learn that T.J. Hughes has received over six thousand dollars on the pretence that he is the sole surviving child of his father. He has a brother, Joseph Hughes by name, living in Franklin county in this state. The latter, since the receipt of the  money by Thomas J., has assigned to us, for a good and valuable consideration, his claim on his brother for his share, and we have instituted an action against Thomas J. for half the money received by him for his father's services in the Superior Court of this county.

But we have become doubtful whether Joseph Hughes, the father actually served in the revolutionary war. It is said by Joseph Hughes the son, and by William Simpson an elderly man living in this county, and by others, that the elder Joseph Hughes was under seven years of age at the close of the war.

If a fraud has been practised on the government, we have no wish to share in the gain of it. If , on
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the contrary, the money justly belongs to the children of the late Joseph Hughes, we shall prosecute our suit for the share of our assignor. Our object in addressing you is to ascertain whether the government will take measures to have the matter judicially investigated.
An early answer will oblige us, as our process against T.J. Hughes is returnable at the coming October term of the Court, and if it should be inexpedient for us to press our suit, we wish to avoid further expense and trouble.
Your old saults,
James Crocker
James Griggs

P.S. If you will send to us copies of the depositions or other evidence on which the certificate was allowed, we might be able to judge more correctly of the validity of our claim: and if you determine to  investigate the matter, we shall, if desired, render you any assistance in our power, by way of directing you to sources of information, or otherwise.
 J.C.
J.G.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
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16 Sept 1851     O.2O
Crocker Driggs
Georgia  
This case was probably before M Triplett. It is an important matter & calls for immediate alertion.
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Rockingham 16th Sept '51
Sir,
A T Akerman esq, who has charge of the claim mentioned in the proceeding letter, is a gentleman well known to me- You may feel an
entire confidence that a proper use will be made of any information which you may communicate to him.
Very Respectfully Yours
J W Macpherson    Petition




James E Heath esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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3. 2. 1752

Georgia

Joseph Hughes deed

in the State of
Liut TL Captain
of Calvary South Carolina
Revolution
inscribed on the Roll of Savannah
at the rate of 499 Dollars 72 Cents per annum
in commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 Ended (in pencil)
20 April 1844

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of 
July 1850 and Sent to 
T Lumpkin 
             Prest


Letter to H. Williams
Atty J. S
May 12, 1853

Hon. I (or J) Hillyer 8 Sep 53
Hon A. R. Wright
Dec 16/58
Hon A. R. Wright Janry 8/59
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State of Georgia }            Court of Ordinary
Habersham County}        November Term 1847
On This first day of November 1847. Personally appeared in Open Court Before the Court of Ordinary now Sitting Thomas I. Hughes a resident of Habersham County in the State of Georgia aged Forty Six years who being first duly Sworn according to the 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 this said Thomas I Hughes is the only Surviving child and heir of Joseph Hughes who entered the Service of the Unites States in the Revolutionary war in the State of South Carolina and Served as follows, as per information received from the Said Joseph Hughes     first a year and upwards as  horseman under Captain Tolly & Palmer alternately. Commissioned in February 1779 and ending in February 1780. Second as Lieutenant of horse a year and upwards in company of Captain Tolly Commencing in May 1780 and ending in June 1781 and thirdly Captain of horse a year and upwards commencing in June 1781 and ending in August 1783 alternately in Col Brandon's Regiment.
The applicant further declares that the Said Joseph Hughes was married to Sarah Shaw in the year 1790 and from Said marriage the Said Thomas I. Hughes was born. that Said  Sarah died in the year 1807 and that the Said Joseph Hughes died on the 20th day of April 1864 in the State of South Carolina Newberry District. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension on annuity whatever except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role
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of any agency in any State. Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
James Crocker J.C.O    Thomas I. Hughes
James Griggs J.C.O
Thomas M. Ria J.C.O
State of Georgia
Habersham county I Philip Martin Clerk of the Court of Ordinary do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas I. Hughes for the amass of Pension due his father Joseph Hughes deceased. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the first day of November 1847.
Philip Martin Clark CO
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Applicant William Loveless and Garnett White
July 28 1 849
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State of Georgia County of Habersham
On this 20th day of June 1849
Personally appears William Loveless + Garnet White and after being first duly Sworn according to the law. did State under oath that they knew Joseph Hughes of the Newberry District State of South Carolina. that they have known him from early youth and that they are now the former Seventy and the latter Seventy two years old. that they have personally heard him recount his Services Sufferings, toils and hardships  while in Services in the army of the Revolution and the engagements he had with the enemy. that all the community around about where he lived always believed and Said the Said Joseph Hughes had been a Revolutionary Soldier and that he had served as Private + Lieutenant Horseman under Captain Jolly and Palmer   and as Captain of Horse in Col Brandon's Regiment in the State of South Carolina. that it is their belief that the testimony of hundreds could be obtained who were acquainted with Said Joseph Hughes to the same faith and belief. that  on all important and public occasions such as Fourth of July Celebrations the old gentlemen was pointed out and brought forward as a Veteran of the Revolutionary and respected as such and that the same Joseph Hughes had a son by the name of Thomas I. Hughes who is his only Surviving child. Sworn to and Subscribed before me this day and year above written.
Thomas I Hughes Justice of the Superior Court of Habersham County Ga
William Loveless
Garnet White
I do hereby certify that the veracity of the above named deponents is such and may be relied on
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With confidence for truth and honesty and that they re-
tain such strong and sound minds as enable them to
decide judiciously upon matters of trust brought
before them  - I and Doth 1849
Thomas I. Hughes J J C


State of Georgia}
Habersham County}  I. Philip Martin Clerk of the
Court of Ordinary in and for said county do hereby
certify that Thomas I. Hughes is a Justice of the
Inferior Court in and for said count duly commissioned
and qualified that his commission was dated on the
6th day of January 1849 and will expire on the 4th
day of January 1853 and  that his signature herein
above written are genuine.
Given  my hand and seal
of Said Court this July the 9th day 

Philip Martin Clerk C.O
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Army (written in pencil)

Sen. Secretary of the 
Interior Letter &
___th 28 March 1850
Filed among "Decisions"
rejecting the claim.
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Please do not disarrange these papers. This claim is a fraud.
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                  483


                 Pension Office.    December 1, 1851

S. Godwin, Esq.
Present

Sir: The claim of John Allen of North Carolina and under act of 7th June 1832, has been examined, but nothing is found to identify him with the Soldier referred to in the Certificate of the Comptroller of N.C. Indeed The statement of his service is at variance with that of the soldier to whom that certificate refers.  Mr. Allen should prove his service by those who were cognizant of it if such can be found. If not, it should be made clear that he has always had the reputation of having been a Revolutionary Soldier, and that only one of them appears on the records of N. C.
(Kirby)
J. Wilson
(on the side, written in another handwriting and in pencil, not in pen, it says: A copy of this letter has been filed in the claims of John Allen. S. 6481 - N.C. Rev)
                                                                      December 1, 1857
John R. Stanford Esq
Clarksville, Geo
Sir: In reply to your letter of the 21st ult in relation to the evidence on which Thomas I Hughes obtained a pension as the only heir of Joseph Hughes late of South Carolina under Act of June 1832 you are informed that on the 1st Nov 1847. Thomas J Hughes made a declaration before the Court of Ordinary of Habersham Co Ga. James Crocker, James Griggs, & Thomas McRea sitting, in which he sets forth certain service which he stated was performed by his father Joseph Hughes in the war of the Revolution He also swore that he was the only surviving child and heir of Joseph Hughes.

   Philip Martin, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, certified under the seal of the court, that the foregoing contained the original proceedings in the case &c.

    On the 4th October 1849 Wm Loveless, Garnet White & Simon White, swore before Thomas J Hughes one of the -------------------Court of Habersham Co Ga that they
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                                                            J. Wilson
                                                                      December 1, 1857
John R. Stanford Esq
Clarkville, Geo
Sir: In reply to your letter of the 21st ult
in relation to ordnace on which Thomas I Hughes obtained 
a pension as the only him of Joseph Hughes late of South Carolina
under Act of June 1832 you are informed that on the 1st Nov
1847. Thomas J (I) Hughes made a declaration before the
Court of Ordinary of Habersham Co Ga. James Crocker, 
James Griggs, & Thomas McRea sitting, in which he sets
forth certain service which he stated was performed
by his father Joseph Hughes in the within of the Revolution
He also swore that he was the the only surviving child
and his of Joseph Hughes.
Philip Martin, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, certified
under the seal of the court, that the foregoing contained
the original proceedings in the case.
On the 4th October 1849 Wm Lovelip, Garret White,
Simon White, swore before Thomas J (I) Hughes one of the
Justices of the Inferior Court of Habersham Co Ga that they
were acquainted from him early youth with Joseph Hughes
of Newberry district S.C. that they had frequently heard
him say recount his services, sufferings, toils, & Hardships, while
in the time of the army of the Revolution, that all the com-
mainly around about where he lived always believed &
said that he had been a Revolutionary soldier of the horse
as private and Lieut. in the Companies of Capt Jolly and
Palmer, and also of Capt. of horse in Col Brandon's Regt.
They state their belief that the testimony of hundreds could
be obtained who would state their belief  in the services of 
Hughes' that on all public occasions, such as the fourth of July
celebrations he was pointed out and brought forward a veteran
of the Revolution; that he died in Newberry District S.C.
in 20th April 1844, and left one only surviving heir
who resides in Habersham Co Ga and is the same man
who is applying for a pension, and whose name is
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Thomas J Hughes.  Philip Martin clerk under the Seal of the Court certifies the official character of Hughes, who certifies to the credibility of the witness.
    On the 19th October 1849, Wm. Loveless, Garnet White and Simon White, make another declaration before Thomas B. Wheeler, a Justice of the Inferior Court before Thomas B. Wheeler, a Justice of the Inferior Court, wherein they reiterate their former declaration.  Wheeler certifies  to credibility of the witness and Martin, under the  Seal of the Court, certifies the official character of the Justice. 
  On the 2nd March 1850, Thomas J Hughes made a supplemental declaration, before Andrew J. Nicholas, J. P.  Habersham Co Geo. in which he reiterates the service of his father Joseph Hughes.  Jas E Griggs, Clerk under the seal of the Court certifies to the official character of Nichols.  
   On the 29 May 1850, James Swinford appeared Alfred Holcomb, J. A. Habersham Co Geo.  I swore that he was 78 years old, that he knew Joseph Hughes of SC from his earliest recollection - always understood that he rendered a long term of service in the Revolution, as private & officer of Horse - that the above named Joseph Hughes [can't read] in Habersham Co. Geo who is applying for a pension.  The magistrate certifies to the official veracity of the 

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[Can't read] J _ Habersham Co. Do swear that he was 78 years old, that he knew Joseph Hughes of S.C. from his earliest recollection-always understood that he {Can't read} a long term of service in the Revolution, as a private and officer of Horse, that the above named Joseph Hughes residing in Habersham Co. {can't read] and who is applying for a pension. The magistrate certifies to the official veracity of the [can't read] the Clerk certifies to the Official Character of the magistrate, and on the 4th July 1850. John [can't read] Matthew Wilson, the one 78 and the other 76 years of age appear Thomas B. {then], Justice of the Superior Court, and swear that they were acquainted with Joseph Hughes of S.C. [Can't] read] further Thomas J. Hughes of Habersham Co. [can't read] and always understood that he under [can't read] a private and Officer of Cavalry in the Revolutionary War [can't read]. 
Thomas B. Wheeler certifies to the credibility of [can't read] and James E. Griggs, clerk, under the seal of the court, certifies to the official character of the magistrate. In 1848, the Comptroller General certifies to the service of Joseph Hughes, [can't read], 190 days duty as Horseman '79, and '80, - 415 days as Lieut. of Horse in '80 and '81, and 374 days as Captain of Horse in 1781 and 1782.
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                                                                           December 1, 1851
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G Holland Ey[can't read]
Burkville, Ind.

Sir:  The Certificate of the Clerk of the County of Augusta Co. Ga must be produced, as to the marriage of Susannah Trusler. If the event is not found recorded then, she should prove the ages of her oldest children or some other fact which may show its date.
   [can't read]                                                                          Taylor Wilson   

{written on left lower hand side of paper]
 A copy of this letter has been filed in the claim.
James & Susannah Trusler,
W. 9528. Va-Rev
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[Can't read] J _ Habersham Co. Do swear that he was 78 years old, that he knew Joseph Hughes of S.C. from his earliest recollection-always understood that he {Can't read} a long term of service in the Revolution, as a private and officer of Horse, that the above named Joseph Hughes residing in Habersham Co. {can't read] and who is applying for a pension. The magistrate certifies to the official veracity of the [can't read] the Clerk certifies to the Official Character of the magistrate, and on the 4th July 1850. John [can't read] Matthew Wilson, the one 78 and the other 76 years of age appear Thomas B. {then], Justice of the Superior Court, and swear that they were acquainted with Joseph Hughes of S.C. [Can't] read] further Thomas J. Hughes of Habersham Co. [can't read] and always understood that he under [can't read] a private and Officer of Cavalry in the Revolutionary War [can't read]. 
Thomas B. Wheeler certifies to the credibility of [can't read] and James E. Griggs, clerk, under the seal of the court, certifies to the official character of the magistrate. In 1848, the Comptroller General certifies to the service of Joseph Hughes, [can't read], 190 days duty as Horseman '79, and '80, - 415 days as Lieut. of Horse in '80 and '81, and 374 days as Captain of Horse in 1781 and 1782.
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                                                                           December 1, 1851
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G Holland Ey[can't read]
Burkville, Ind.

Sir:  The Certificate of the Clerk of the County of Augusta Co. Ga must be produced, as to the marriage of Susannah Trusler. If the event is not found recorded then, she should prove the ages of her oldest children or some other fact which may show its date.
   [can't read]                                                                          Taylor Wilson   

{written on left lower hand side of paper]
 A copy of this letter has been filed in the claim.
James & Susannah Trusler,
W. 9528. Va-Rev
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of the grand jury that the criminal prosecuted had been barred by the [can't read], before the fraud was discovered suspected at the Bureau. The sixth indictment was decided upon a [can't read] which I suspend to her false depicting [can't read] of the statute but upon examining I became if we had a jury [can't read] that no conviction could be had upon and [can't read] at the March time 1853 of the court [can't read] upon that indictment also [can't read] is to be regretted that the Statute of Limitations does not provide by exception for fraud of this and decree that the Statute shall run [can't read] from such time as the fraud shall have been discussed at the proper department level from when the time when [can't read] of fraud or mistake exists and that [can't read] is that the commercial or is progressing certainly further legislation is needed upon this question.

My investigation is preparing the criminal Court argument Hughes [can't read] one that he had committed fraud upon the government and had otherwise a [can't read] of many as presume to is at least one half of which he was legally entitled. He received on the 3rd Sept 1850 $65 60 20/100 as the only surviving child and heir of his father Joseph Hughes. [can't read] of his story supporting his claim as unquestionably  
false as I had Thom. J. Hughes brother Joseph as a witness
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at court in the criminal cases against also another witness a very many old [can't read] of South Carolina who would have sworn and if (alive) will swear now that [can't read] of Thomas J. Hughes never was a Revolutionary Soldier. - My officer in [can't read] his letter today is that I think this matter should be investigated in a civil suit for the recovery of the money and to ask the proper authority substitute is-The imperial papers were handed by me to Mr. F.F.C. Criplett [can't read] Chief Clerk of the Purser Office in September last at Marietta. 
I will be [can't read] to you if you will examine them and have an affidavit. Setting forth your belief experience (if they justify you in doing so that the [can't read] received by Hughes is due to the United States-- I wish also to receive from [can't read]  you [can't read] themselves. Mr. Hughes is still I believe acting as a review agent and transmitting claims to Washington--Respectfully I suggest that I would be[can't read] from paying any more. Pausing with his hands in such a way not [can't read] to his claim until the has been securely held to bail.
                                                                             Very Respectfully.
                                                                      [can't read] Henry [can't read] U.S. Atty
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L. B. True
July 24/50
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462

Pension Office
July 24, 1850

Sir,
I herewith return the papers which you left here the morning in the case of Joseph Hughes, deceased. At the request of Mr. Lumpkin, I have send the [pension] certificate in this case to the Hon. Howell, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who I am informed placed the papers in support of the claim in the hands of Mr. Lumpkin.

[illegible]

Mr. L. B. True, Esq.
Present
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This letter is flipped over so you need to flip it back so it can be transcribed
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604-25 Ave., Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Feb. 7-1910
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
I have been referred to you for information of any ancestors who did service in the Revolutionary War. I would like to know something of Col. Aaron Lockhart or Lockert of South Carolina, who is said to have served with Marion. He [illegible] Lockhart's or Lockert's Mills on Broad [illegible] & he had a brother, Capt. Lockhart or Lockert. Also Col. Joseph Hughes of Chester Dristrict S.C. As a Leut. he fount under Sumpter of Rocky Mount & Hanging Rock & also at Musgrove's Mill.
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(2)

He took part in the engagements at King's Mountain, Hammond's Store and Cowpens. At the latter he commanded his Company & Col. Brandon declared "Hughes saved the fate of the day." He was promoted in 1781 to a Captaincy but he was always given the title of Col after the war & we do not know whether it was given by the militia or not.  Please give me all the information you have as they are great-grand parents on both sides of our house & I am anxious to get our children into the D.A.R.s if possible.

Very respectfully
Mrs. C. W. Hughes

Feb 10 1910 [stamped]
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Joseph Hughes
Additional evidence for Rev. Pension.
To be filed [can't read] original [can't read].
Line
0.5 containing [can't read]
daugt of Lucius White
Col. James Edwards
Comm. Pensions
[can't read]
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Washington July 28, 1849
Commissioner


                                                                           Dear Sir, I hereby disclose to you as agent for claimant for Thomas Hughes [can't read], claiming pension for Rev. Service in the State of So. Carolina the same appear and satisfactory which we humbly hope to be the case-have all goodness to direct all certificates for all same to me, and thus [can't read].
                             
                                                                     Very Respectively,        
                                                                    Charles [can't read]
                                                                     L. B. True    
                                                                   Agent in this case  
Col. J.J. Eawendy     
Comm. Pensions         4 C's drawen
[can't read]
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Hollinsworth, Ga
Febru 12                                                                                    Face                             14


                                          To the Commissioner of Pensions
                                           War Department
                                            Washington City, D.C. 

0.1 July 21.48
37589
Cl
Joseph Hughes
1832
Georgia
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Hollingsworth Ga Febry 12th. 1848
Sir
  I herewith send a part of the papers claiming a pension for the Services of Joseph Hu
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Hand to -
Thomas Lumpkins Esq
Pension Agent
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Monroe, Watton City, GA
Aug 20 1855

Sir
I send you the enclosed letter from Mr. Akermann who is associated with Mr.[can't read] the management of a case brought by Mr. Joseph Hughes against his brother Thomas Hughes to recover our half of the pension which Thomas Hughes sued for the survivors for his father in the Revolutionary War-It will be [can't read] for us to prove the weight of the pension by Thom Hughes and the amount of it and the time of its weight-     Will plan to make out exemplification of the record in your office properly certified so it can be in word of evidence and send it to me or Mr. Akermann- and oblige.
                                                                         Your south-great [can't read]
                                                                            Tannis Hillgen
                                                                                M.C. Fr 6th [can't read]
                                                                                                     Ga
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Pension office 
Washington City

(Top left side of paper)
Mr. Tuplatt       0.21
Line
Ins. R. [can't read]
9th Oct 1851
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                                                                        Clarksville Geo 9 Oct 1851

Dear Sir, 
               [can't read] of to not reaching me by the mail after I had a written you on the 6th and in accordance with your request I inclose two affidavits that will abundantly show that a fraud of six or seven thousand dollars has been committed on the government by Thomas J. Hughes of this county the [can't read] County was the sister of Joseph Hughes for who the pension was obtained for and the other is a preacher of the gospel of Pickens Dist. of So. Car.( [can't read] Neighbors,) other proof can be obtained to some [can't read] when a case is made, as you will see I have endorsed on the back of the affidavits. 
The way the whole matter came out is as follows. The pension was obtained and the money drawn by Thomas J. Hughes who, I understand made an affidavit that he was the only surviving heir of Joseph Hughes. but he well knew he had a brother living within a days ride of him and when that brother found it out Thos. J. would not tell the amount received,  but gave his mother a hundred dollars and gave a release and telling him that that was all he was entitled to. But worthy citizens of this County irg. James Crocker and James Griggs, knowing the character of Thos. J. and having been informed by rumor that the amount received by Thos. J. was much greater purchased
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from his brother after the release to Thos. J. his claim and instituted a suit in in our Superior Court against Thomas J. for the full share of his brothers, In hunting up testimony to prove the relationship between brothers, they found they were so, and also began to suspect that the whole was a fraud on the government and if there was any Joseph Huhes in So. Car. who was a Revolutionary Soldier this was not the man. At this stage of the proceedings, they employed me to [can't read] their Attorney in the suit against Hughes and on hearing all the circumstances I advised them to hunt up testimony to prove the fraud and inform the government which they readily consented to do and one of them went twice to Pickney District a distance of fifty miles and once to [can't read] County 120 miles, together on foot being unable to own a horse to obtain these affidavits.
                                                                                        I am keeping their suit against Hughes in court, however, as he is under bail in order to keep him here to answer any suit you may order and the reason I wish you to hurry proceedings is that our court sits next week and I fear the [can't read] being made out by a young brother in the profession he may have the bail discharged and if he gets the slightest hint that you are about to proceed on him for the fraud, he will be gone and leave no trace behind.
                                                                                      Great credit is due to [can't read] Crocker and Griggs for giving up their claim to half this money and obtaining the proof for the government and should it be recovered from Huges
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 I think upon a proper statement of the facts to {can't read], they would appropriate for their services in the matter the amount they will thus give up, and I suggested this to them at the time.
It is also supposed that Hughes obtained a pension some years ago. for a Mrs. Perdue his mother-in-law, for her husband's Rev. Services, in a like fraudulent manner, Perdu or Perdue lived in So. Car.                           If you can send me Perdue's first name and a copy of the evidence and names of witnesses who established her right to the pension, I can get Crocker and Griggs to look into it when they/ as they intend) to go to Pickins to hunt up further testimony in the Hughes case.
                                                                                       Very Respectfully
                                                                                      Your Off. Servant
                                                                                     [can't read] R. Sanford      
P.S. I think a indictment for perjury would lie in the State or Federal Court on Hughes' affidavit that he was the only heir, as I presume it was made here or at the pay office in Savannah.
If you order proceedings of any kind by the U.S. Attorney for Geo. would it not be well at the same time that you give me the order to advise me of it, as I might by some legal means be able to keep him here in the interval, before the arrival of the marshal.
Can you conoencenth send me a copy of the act under which Jos. Hughes' pension was obtained.
That you may have every confidence in the statements I make to you. I will refer you to Phillip Clayton/ one of the [can't read] whom I am personally known
                                                                                       J.R.S
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Sept 8/55
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                                                                                                Pension Office
                                                                                                  Sept 8, 1833

Sir.
Agreeably to your request, I enclose, herewith, certified copies of the papers upon which Jos. Hughes' dec 12, was allowed a Revolutionary Pension.
The vouchers upon which the money was paid, are in the Office of the Third [can't read] the letter of your correspondent is enclosed. 


Juynis
Julius(crossed out) Hillyer
Mourae,
Walton Co. 
Ga







                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                REC
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Dec.16,1858
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                                                                              Pension Office, December 16, 1858
Sir
In response to the enclosed letter of Mr. Black, I have the honor to state that the claim recorded by Thomas Hughes, in [can't read] of the alleged [can't read] of his father, Joseph Hughes, Declared, in the Revolutionary War, was [can't read] allowed by this heir in 1850; legal proceedings can be instituted against him by the government, which [can't read] evaded through a plea of the Statute of Limitations, more than two years having [can't read] from the Commission of the hence to the findings of the indictments.  Nothing is due to the government? Such a claim would not now be admitted under any circumstances.
                                                                             With great respect
                                                                                    Qe

Hon. A. R. Wright
House of Reprs



Hon. A. R. Wright
House of Reprs.
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Hon. A. R. Wright
Jany 8.
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                                                                                                    Pension Office
                                                                                                    January 8, 1859

Sir
         I have the honor to return, herewith,  the letter of Mr. Black, of the 23rd, [can't read] and to  State in answer to his inquiries, that the pension allowance made by this office to Thomas J. Hughes as the only surviving child of Joseph Hughes, deceased, under the act of June 7th, 1832, was at the rate of $499. 72/100, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and ending April 20, 1844. Proof of the amount actually paid, and to whom the money is delivered, and on what vouchers, can be obtained at the Office of the [can't read] Auditor of the Treasury. At the time this claim it was allowed it was the rule and practice of this office to order the pension moneys, in such cases, to be paid to, or for the benefit of, the immediate children who were alive at the time of [can't read] the pension certificate, including the grandchildren and collateral relatives of the soldier from all participation therein.
                  What legal rights the relatives of Thomas J. Hughes, or the descendants of Joseph Hughes, have to a distributive share of the money
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allowed to the former, is a question for and not for this office to decide. In the somewhat analogous case of Walton Vs Cotton, in the 19th Howan, page 355, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the grandchildren are entitled to share with the immediate children. Whether this would be held to be a parallel case is a question I am not called upon to determine.
No allowances of back pension moneys are now made to the children of Revolutionary soldiers who themselves were not pensioners.


Hon. A. R. Wright
        House of Representatatives
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0.22
Gus R. Shautner
[can't read]
21st Nov 1850
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                                                            Clarksville, Geo.  Nov 
Hon. J.E. Heath
      Comm. of Pensions
                                             Dear Sir.     In consequence of the information furnished by Jas. Griggs and Jas. Crocker through me in Octr last with regard to fraud committed by Thos. J. Hughes in obtaining $6000 pension for Joseph Hughes of So. Car. and your orders to U.S. Dist. Atty of Geo.  He writes before proceeding to know all the evidence that can be produced, it is therefore necessary that I should know from your office as speedely as possible, by whom the services of Joseph Hughes was proven and their residence at the time of proof and the names of the magistrates who certify to their affidavits and to whom certifies to them being magistrates, also by what other recommendation was made, either in Habershaw County Geo. or in South Carolina or in Washington City. We are fully of the belief that the names of all the witnesses are suspicious and forgeries as well as the Certificates of Magistrate, and perhaps the Certificate of the Clerk of Court and Seal. 
An early answer will oblige.                                 Very Obli. Servant
                                                                                  Jno R. Stanford
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Henry Williams
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                                                                                                                                 154
                                                              Pension Office May 12, 1833
Sir. 
           Your letter dated March 28 is received. It had been laid aside in the Preps of Businefs until I could to find time to give the matter of Hughes application for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of his father, a personal examination. I agree with you that further legislation is necessary to protect the National Treasury from the depreciation of the unprincipled, and especially in relation to the statute of limitations which now bars prosecution for the offences before their effect can be known. I shall endeavor to bring this matter to the notice of the proper authority at the proper time. I have been in doubt whether I ought to authorize a civil suit against Hughes to recover the money he has wrongfully obtained and have concluded that it will not be for the interest of the Treasury to do so. Hughes claims, in a letter in this office, that he has adjusted this matter with his brother and has a discharge, being as the right of the government to recover in a suit against Hughes will depend upon the right- Hughes'
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father had to a pension at the time of his decease. If the whole claim of Hughes is and was a fabrication we might uncover; but if the claim was originally a just one, altho it might have been established by Hughes under false representations as to his being the only surviving child, yet the jury would hesitate before they would compel him to refund the money especially as he has adjusted the matter with the only person interested in it. I know these pretensions of Hughes may be may be false, and that he may be liable to refund the whole sum, but from the papers filed in the application in this office. I am unsure to believe there is so much ground for the claim that the jury will be inclined to lean towards the citizen against the government. Besides the government seldom makes much in endeavoring to recover money that has once gone the Treasury, however, fraudulent means by which it was obtained. For the present I can not advise to the further prosecution of this matter.
                                                                                 I have the honor
                                                                                 Your Obt. Serv
                                                                                                                 
Commissioner
Henry Williams Esq.-U.S. Atty.
Savannah Georgia                  "hew.
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[sideways] 0.13
Highs to Lumpkin Party
May 31st 1850



Thomas Lumpkins Esq. 
Pension Agent
Washington City, D.C.
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                                                                                       Clarksville, Georgia
                                                                                      May 31-1850.
Dear Sir.
                   I herewith send an affidavit explanatory to the services of my father my father in the Rev. War and will just add that I could have obtained two other similar ones, but it would have taken some time to send for the testimony and as it is so much to the point I flatter myself with the answer, As I am aware that claims are often allowed from circumstances connected with the application. I will here describe some of the leading points in my application in this case and I think from the exalted opinions I have of the very scrutinizing judgment,  as to justice of the How the Living personal interview on your part with him and then a reference to him and the particulars I point out in the pension will secure my claim. Sometime previous to the death of my father which happened April 20, 1844, He wrote a letter written to me in his name. Requesting me to try to get a pension for him but my situation was such as that time that  I could not attend to his case and I never saw him again. I became somewhat familiar with the pension laws and knew there was something coming to me for his service if he had not drawn it himself and I had not been informed that he never employed any one to prosecute his claim in his lifetime until I wrote to the Court of Pension to inform me. This letter is in the pension  office or should be and I wish you and the Hon. Secretary of the Interior to see it) and upon information from him that an application never was made. I made a declaration in Nov 1847. With a view to visit Joseph McJunkin of Union District of South Carolina who was a pensioner and served as a Capt. in the same regiment as my father and personally knew him as he informed me himself some years previous when I visited him to get proof in the case of Catherine Turkersly, whose claim was allowed and I expected by this visit to prove every particular would and enable me to establish the claim at once, but from sudden and extreme disposition immediately after
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making my declaration I was unable to make this visit until Feby 1848, and where I went I found McJunkin was dead and consequently I failed but a reference to McJunkins proof in establishing his claim wile show that I am correct, and I hope that will establish mine. I would further add that I have no motive that my father what [can't read] he could draw and I know that he did not nor did I know until four or five years ago that a child could draw what was due the parent at his death by some means the people in that part of the country and where my father resided failed to inform themselves in the pension laws as you will see from the very few pensioners in Newbury Dist. South Carolina.  
                                                                            Yours in [can't read]
                                                                        Thonas J. Hughes
         Tho. Lumplins Esq
        Pension Agent
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                                                                Hollingsworth, Georgia Aug 12th 1848

Sir.
          In relation to the requisitions of the department for [can't read] proof in the case of the application by myself for the pension due my father Joseph Hughes at his death for his service in the Revolutionary War. I will just say that I fear that I cannot exactually comply, but in or do to remove all doubt in relation to the justice of their claim I herewith send a letter addressed to me by my father [can't read] before his death upon the subject on which I will clearly that the pension in question was due him.
He has always until a short time before his  been opposed to asking the government for a pension but I do not think this should [can't read] his legal representative from drawing of it from the insanity of my mother's mind my father informed her that he placed his commodious, discharge and in the hands of a friend shortly after the close of the war and thereby [can't read] that I cannot produce these, and just before I made the application to see Thomas Young of Union District South Carolina for proof who is a United States Pensioners if living and who my father repeatedly informed me served with [can't read] and the old man was living but from a wound in his head (which wound you will see named in Young's proof in his own application) his mind was so impaired that he could only remember that my father served but could not make a specific affidavit in the matter, but in my application I had reference to this said Thos. Young and Joseph McJunkin of the same place for identity of regimental  service which I hope will be addressed to and taken as evidence if my application should not correspond with the
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certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina there I am not entitled but if it does my claim is good I made my application from information often received from my father and without a knowledge from the records of the Comptroller's office [can't read] after my declaration was sent and I hope that my claim will be forthwith be allowed too long delays to act upon such claims that this have a tendency to weaken accompanying instruction therefore I would ask early action. If [can't read] required I can be sworn to the above facts. Answer me at Hollinswirth Habershaw County, Georgia.
                                                                            Yours Respect [can't read]
                                                                        

J.L. Edwards
  Comm. of Pensions
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      C.
0.3
2   2X


Letter of T.J. Hughes
dated 12th May 1840
Including
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C. 0.2
March 20/48
Thomas J. Hughes for
heirs of Joseph Hughes


Comptrollers Certificate

12.

return chance of Jas. Hughes to 
draw a pension.
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Hollingsworth Ga            Free
Mar 11                         Tho. J. Hughes P [can't read]



J.L. Edwards Esq.
   Commissioner of Pensions
        War Department
Washington City, D.C.
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                                                                     Hollingsworth Ga March 11th 1948
Sir
      I herewith send a certified copy from the Comptroller General of South Carolina credited to Joseph Hughes for services in the Revolutionary War which so unifoundly agrees with the services set forth in the declaration that it is expected that the claim will be allowed forthwith abundant living testimony in this case could have been had a few years but an aversion to the idea of drawing a pension by him (Joseph Hughes) prevented the application being made in his lifetime and now that most of the old heros are dead but I will just mention some names of his most intimate acquaintances in service as stated by him in Brandori's Regiment in Union District in South Carolina-such as Capt. Joseph Jolly. Capt. Joseph McJunkin  and late and Joseph Young the latter two were pensioners in Union District South Carolina in 1840 and later perhaps one or both are now dead. A reference to their proof made when they applied for their pensions will show if they served in said regiments. Answer me at Hollingsworth Habershaw County, Georgia.
                                                          Yours very truly [can't read]

                                                           Thomas J. Hughes

J.L. Edwards
       Comm. of Pensions
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F. D. 
0.6
Affidavit of Lovelless, 
and Garnet White and 
Simon White
4th Oct 1849
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State of Georgia
Habershaw County

                                             On this 4th day of October 1849 Personally appeared on this day before me Thomas J. Hughes-a in and for said and the justices of the Interior Court in said county William Lovelep aged seventy years. Garnet White aged seventy-two years and Simon White aged seventy four years after being duly sworn in terms of law. South an oath that they knew Joseph Hughes of Newberry District State of South Carolina from early youth and that their ages are now as above stated and that they have personally heard him recount his services, Sufferings, toils and hardships while in the service in the army of the revolution and the engagements he had with the enemy. That all the community around about where he lived had always believed in and said the he had been in the companies of Capt. Jolly and Paluris and also Captain of the Horse in Col. Braudouis regiment in the State of South Carolina that it is their belief in the testimony of him could be obtained who were acquainted to him the same facts and belief. That on all important public occasions such as the Fourth of July celebration the old gentleman was pointed out and brought forward as a veteran of the Revolution and respected as such.  That the said Joseph Hughes died in South Carolina Newberry District on this 20th day of April 1944, and left only one surviving heir who now resides in Habershaw County State of Georgia and is the same man applying for the pension the said Joseph Hughes by his death the name of Thomas Hughes and under which name he applies.
Sworn to and subscribed before the day and year above named
Thomas J. Hughes JJC                                            William Loveless
                                                                               Garnet White
                                                                                Simon White
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2.   I hereby certify that the veracity of the abovenamed affidavit is such as may be relied on for truth and honesty and they are men of good minds and retentive memories. 
                                                                Thomas J. Hughes        JJC


State of Georgia
Habershaw County

                                           I Philip Martin Clerk of the Court of ordinary in and for said county do hereby certify that Thomas J. Hughes is a Justice of the Interior Court in and for said county and as above that his commission was dated on the 6th day of January 1849, and will expire on the first Monday in January 1853 and his signatures above written and genuine. In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 8th day of October 1849.
                                                                                               Philip Martin, Clerk
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0.12       (B)
Affidavit of Jas. Sandford
     29th May 1850
       H.
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State of Georgia 
Habershaw County
                       I James E. Griggs Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for said County and State. Do hereby certify that Alfred Holcombe is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County as above duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 22nd day of January 1849 and will expire on the first Saturday in January 1852 and that his signatures herein above written are genuine. In testimony whereof  I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court this 29th day of May 1850. 

                                       James E. Griggs, Clerk
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State of Georgia
Habershaw County                                                     SS On this 29th day of May 1850.

Personally came James Swinford aged seventy-eight years and after being first being duly sworn in time of law, swore an oath that he personally knew Joseph Hughes late of South Carolina from his first recollection in early youth and always and invariably understood that rendered a long term of service in the army of the United States of the Revolutionary War both in the Capacity of a Private and Officer of as horseman. Affidavit further says that sometime close to the near the close  of the war the times in South Carolina were so troublesome that the women and children were forced to leave their homes and take protection at a place called Brandous Bull Pen, and that he was a boy some ten or twelve years old and was among those who took protection in the fort and while there he frequently saw the said Joseph Hughes in command of his company (as he since understands from his appearing to be leader) coming into fort and going out on business. Affidavit also says that the above name said Joseph Hughes has one surviving son by the name of Thomas J. Hughes residing in Habershaw County, State of Georgia, whom he has known from birth. who he understands is applying for the pension due his father at his death. Sworn to and subscribed by me this day and year above written. 

Alfred Holcombe J.P.                    James Swinford

          I hereby certify to the veracity of the above-named affidavit such as may be relied on for truth and honesty and appears to be of good intellect and memory. 

Alfred Holcombe J.P.
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State of Georgia
Habersham County              On this 19th day of October 1849.
Personally appeared William Loveless aged seventy years Garnet White aged seventy two years and Simon White aged seventy-four years and being duly sworn by terms of law, Newberry District, State of South Carolina from their early youth and have and have heard him recount his services, toils suffering and hardships while serving in the army of the Revolution and the engagements he had been in with the enemy in the community around about where he lived always believed and said that said Joseph Hughes had been a Revolutionary Soldier and that they always understood from him that he had served in the State of South Carolina in Col. Brandon's Regiment as Captain of the Horseman and Lieut and [illegible]  of their [illegible] of the Horses in the companies of Captain Jolly and [illegible] that it is the testimony that hundreds could be obtained to the belief that on, [illegible] important and public occasions such as the Fourth of July celebrations the old gentleman said Joseph Hughes died in Newberry District, State of South Carolina on the 20th of April 1844 and left one only surviving heir by the name of Thomas J. Hughes who resides in Habersham County, State of Georgia and is applying for the pension due his said Joseoh Hughes, his father at his death.
Thomas B. Wheeler                                       William Loveless
                                                                          Garnet White
                                                                            Simon White
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. I hereby certify that the above named affidavits may be relied on for truth and honesty and that they are good minds and retentive memories.
                                                                      Thomas B. Wheeler

State of Georgia 
Habersham County        

I Philip Martin Clerk of the court of ordinary for said county do hereby certify that Thomas B. Wheeler is a Justice of the Inferior court in and for the County of Habershaw State of Georgia and that about his commision was dated on the 6th of January 1849 and will expire on the first Monday of February 1853 that his signatures above written are genuine. In testimony whereof I set my hand and seal of said Court this 19th day of October 1849.

                                                                           Philip Martin, Clerk C,O
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0.19 
T. J. Hughes
To Heath, Comm
July 29, 1851


                                 Hon. James E. Heath comm. of Pensions
                                                      Washington City, D.C
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                                                                                       Clarksville, Georgia
                                                                                       July 29th 1851
Dear Sir,                                                                      
                    Sometime ago Philip Martin Esq. who is Clerk of the Superior Court in Habersham County, wrote to you for a copy of my declaration made in the year 1867, for the purpose of drawing the pension due his father Joseph Hughes at his death. Also for a copy of the Comptroller Certificate of the services and for a copy of the letter sent to me by my father in 1844 sent to me to undertake to get his pension, and if it is not in your power to do so I  would thank you to send me a copy of these papers as they will be beneficial to me hereafter as sent by you.                 
James Crocker has lately undertaken to expose me by purchasing part of the pension I drew for my father of my brother by swindling him in the gropest manner and I have since paid my brother off and wish these copies to show what circumstances I offer for the pension.
When I made application for this pension I applied for the only surviving heir with the full conviction I was right in the fact that my brother is idiotic and apologetically afflicted and had wandered off and had been absent for years (as I thought, authoritatively reported to be dead and Crocker is making it a hobby of this for no other reason than I refuse to prosecute his claim upon the grounds that I thought it meritorious. I have been annoyed upon so much on this matter that I have thought I would never offer another claim but I cannot get off yet, answer me at Clarkesville, Georgia           Yours [illegible]                                     Thomas J. Hughes
Hon. J
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0.18
Philip Martin 
to Commissioner of Pens.
       June 3rd 1851




[written upside down]
                                                  To the Commissioner of Pensions
                                                      Washington City, D
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Clarksville June 30th 1851

To the Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
There is now in progress a Judicial investigation in the Superior Court of Habersham 
County in relation to a brothers share of the pension drawn by Thomas J. Hughes for the services of his father, Joseph Hughes in the American Revolution and I am requesting is the clerk of said court to obtain from the department, if practicable a certified copy of the declaration of Thomas J. Hughes for the pension due Joseph Hughes at his death and a certified copy of a letter written by his father Joseph Hughes to the said Thomas J. requesting him to obtain his the said Joseph's pension, also a like copy of the services of the said Joseph and one of the certificate, by which the money was drawn for the pension, by the said Thomas J. all of which I presume may be consolidated and authenticated by our general certificate.  It is desired for the purpose of being used in the investigation of said case will you therefore be so kind as to forward to me at this place at [underlined] your earliest convenience [end underlined] the said copies certified as to forward to me at[underlined]your early attention [end underlined] is most respectfully solicited and will be duly appreciated.
Respectfully
Philip Martin
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Hollingsworth, Ga                                          Free
          26 Oct                                                      Thos. J. Hughes PM



J.L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions
War Department
Washington City, D.C.
Page 71

                                Hollingsworth Georgia 25th Oct 1849
Sir


I herewith send further amended testimony, as per your directions in your letter to me of the 2nd just in my application for the pension due my father Joseph Hughes at his death as I presume those directions are applicable to my case or will as to others where testimony is taken before a man who is acting in the death capacity of an agent and magistrate answer me at Hollingsworth Georgia.                        
                                                                                            Yours to

                                                                                                 Thomas J. Hughes

J.L. Edwards
        Coms. of Pensions
Page 72

Thomas J. Hughes
      Clarksville
                  Ga
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                                                                                        Comptroller Geul's Office
                                                                                          Columbia, S.C.
                                                                                            March 25 1830
      Sir,
             In compliance with your request, I have looked over the Indexes of the Records of this office and find only one reference to Joseph Hughes for military service in the Revolution Book X of which I recently sent you a certificate.
                                                                                 Your Obl Servt
                                                                                    James A. Black
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0.9
So. Ca. Comptrollers 
Letter
March 25 1850
Hand to 
Tho Lumpkin Esq
Pension Agent 

I have been employed in this case, and respectfully request that an early action may be had on the same and the  [can't read] such be repeated to me. Tho Lumpkin

                                                                            Hon. Th. Ewing
                                                                                 Secty of the Interior
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0.10
T. Ewing-Rejection
[illegible]
15-
March 28th 1850
Page 76

                                            (copy)

                                                        Department of the Interior
                                                            March 28th 1850         

Sirs
                    I herewith return the papers in the case of Joseph Hughes under the Act of June 7th, 1832, and I have to inform you that the same has been rejected. 

                                          I am very respectfully your Obl. Servant  
                          {signed                           T. Ewing
                                                            Secretary



J.L. Edwards Esq.
                 Commissioner of Pensions
Page 77

{Writing all over the envelope] 




                            J.L. Edwards Commissioner 
                            of Pensions War Department
                               Washington City D.C.
Page 78

                                                                             Clarksville, Georgia
                                                                                         April 1st 1850
Sir

                      I have removed my claim to pension due my father-Joseph Hughes at his death, from the agency of L.B. True andGa and placed it in the hands of Thomas Lumpkins through Hon. Howell Cobb. The department will therefore receive no more communication in my favor from the house of L.B. True [can't read].

                                                                             Yours Truly [can't read] 
                                                                              Thomas J. Hughes

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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July 24/50
0.17



Alu
Lumpkins to Commissioner
July 24th 1850
Page 80

                                                                                     Washington D.C. 
                                                                                          July 24th 1850
Sir, 
                         I request you to send the certificate now before you, allowed for my  appeal with new evidence furnished by me in the case of Joseph Hughes, deceased [can't read] to Georgia to the Hon. Howell Cobb, Speaker of the House of Reps.
                                                                               I am for
                                                                              most respectfully
                                                                                 Your Obl. Sert
                                                                                   Tho. Lumpkin
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0.16


T. Ewing
                                                   
 July 18 1850

[can't read]

Claim allowed-
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                                          Copy

                                                    Department of the Interior
                                                          July 18th 1850

Sir,
      I herewith return the papers in the case of Joseph Hughes deceased, and although the pension aids, affirmed by my letter of the 28th of March last, yet the evidence filed since the last examination of the claim removes the objection the sustained. I am therefore of the opinion that the claim should be allowed.
                                                              I am, very respectfully
                                                                 Your Obl. Servant
                                                                     T. Ewing
                                                                           Secretary

J.L. Edwards, Esq
      Commissioner of Pensions
Page 83

Washington
            July 15/50
Th. Lumpkin


              Inc. additional affidavit in the case of Joseph Hughes   
                 Deceased of Georgia.
Page 84

                                                                                  Washington D.C.
                                                                                   July 15th, 1850
Sir, 


    I have the hours to analyze additional affidavits in the case of Joseph Hughes dec' of Georgia, which has been reported on recently by the Pension Office. The main point of objection which has been urged against this claim in that one of identity. I flatter myself after a further review of this claim that it will be conceded by any fair or impartial tribunal to be one of high merit, and will be so pronounced. 

                                                                                I have the honor to be, 
                                                                                   Sir, with great reputation  
                                                                                          Your Obl. Ser.
                                                                                      Th. Lumpkin
         Hon. Thom. Ewing,
      Secretary of the
      Dept
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0.14     June 5th. 1850
Hon. Stonewall Cobb


                                                                 H. Cobb

Enclosing affidavit of James Swinford proving the identity of Joseph Hughes, revolutionary soldier in the case of Thos. Hughes application for pension.

Letter to Hon. H. Cobb
June 6th 1850

Ref. to Comm. of Pensions
Dept. of Interior
June 6th 1850
Page 86

                                                                                  Washington City, D.C.
 Sir,                                                                                         June 5th 1850

I have the honor of enclose here of an affidavit of James Swinford, proving the identity of Joseph Hughes, whose son, Thos. J. Hughes is claiming a pension in right of the said, Joseph Hughes, Revolutionary services.
This case I understand has been rejected principally on the ground of Identity. I also enclose a letter from Wm. Hughes, adding to Wm. Lumpkin, explanatory to this case, and most respectfully [can't read]  at your hands that,  The same may be again opened and reviewed upon its true merits.
                                                                            W. Thomas J. Hughes, I will know and have no hesitation in stating that he is a gentleman of high respectability and honor. I have the honor to be [can't read].


Hon. Thos. Ewing
Sect of the Dept.                                                              Howell Cobb
of the Interior
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                                                                   U.S. District Attorney's Office Ga.
                                                                              Savannah Dec 16th 1851
                                               Office            John R. Sanford Esq.
                                                                           Clarksville
                                                                                      Dear Sir
                                                                                                   The bearer  Mr. Triplett of the Pension at Washington City is visiting Clarksville on business [illegible] with the proceedings against Thomas J. Hughes, in his possession the original papers filed by Mr. Hughes which he will show you.  You may oblige me by assisting him to discover testimony.-
                                                                              Very Respectfully yours
                                                                                Henry Williams
                                                                                     U.S. Dist. Atty
Page 88

                                                                                   Treasury Department
                                                                                   Second Auditors Office
                                                                                      Dec 12th 1851
   Dear Sir, 
   
                                      This letter will be handed you by Col. F.C. Triplett, of the Pension Office, who will be in your town [can't read] with his office. You will find him a gentleman of character and integrity and object of his visit and any attention you may pay him in the [can't read] of life, will be appreciated by him and duly appreciated and acknowledged by yours. 

                                                                       M. Clayton

    J.R. Stanford
       Clarksville Ga
Page 89

[This document is folded in half. Top section pre-printed with handwritten entries. Backside of pre-printed form contains handwritten comments]

Cof  No. 32 75
Sur.File 7047
Georgia
Rev War
Name: Joseph Hughes
Rank: Lieut
*
Reg't: Rev War
* S. Carolina Record Comptroller June 28/54
 [hand drawn arrow from asterisk pointing to the below hand written sentence]
this is undoubtedly a
fraudulent claim
he defrauded his brother
and misrepresented his 
father's service.

old jacket inside

[Backside of pre-printed form contents]
[hand drawn arrow from above recorded "fraudulent claim" pointing to these hand written comments]
This claim was allowed upon the same served as that alleged by Joseph Hughes a resident of Greene Co. Ala. in 1832 who gives a full account of his Rev War Services which is supported by the testimony of two persona who served with him and his claim was allowed. see Sur. File 31764. Joseph Hughes S.C.

There is no testimony of comrades in this claim which was based on a report from Comptroller of S.C. and identity was never proved.
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O.8
A2.
Affidavit of Hughes
March 2nd 1850
Page 91

State of Georgia
Habersham  County} Personally appeared this day before me Andrew J. Nichols an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Thomas J. Hughes who after being first duly sworn according to the law Saith on oath in order to explain former papers claiming the pension due his father Joseph Hughes at his death that he has often heard his father the Said Joseph Hughes Say that he first entered the Service in the Revolutionary War as a Private Horseman in the company of Capt Joseph Palmer and was transferred in the same Capacity to the Company of Capt Benjamin Jolly where he was promoted to that of a Lieutenant and afterwards elected Captain of the Horse in which Several Capacities he Served in the Regiment of Col Thomas Brandon a long time in the War of the Revolution. And that his account for Services in every capacity was uniformly voched for by Col Thomas Brandon.
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this March the 2nd day 1850
Thomas J Hughes
Andrew J Nichols J op

State of Georgia
Habersham County} I James E. Briggs Clerk of the Inferior Court in Said County and State, do hereby certify that Andrew  J. Nichols is a Justice of the Peace in and for Said county as above duly commissioned and qualified that his Commission was dated on the 22nd day of January 1849 and will expire on the first Saturday in January 1853 and that his signature above hereunto set my hand and seal of Said Court this March 2nd day 1850.
James E. Griggs Clerk SG
[evidence of round seal once affixed to lower left corner of document]
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Hollingsworth Ga}free
April 29
free
Thos J Hughes
P Ms
J.L. Edwards Commissioner 
of Pensions War Department
Washington City
DC
12

[written vertically on left edge of document at fold 
resp. May 8/49
Thomas J Hughes
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Hollingsworth Ga April 29th 1849
Sir,
In reply to your s of the 1st of August last in relation to further proof in establishing my claim to Pension due my father (Joseph Hughes) at his death I have to inform you that I am unable to comply with your requisitions as regards Commission records or documentary proof or even parole evidence I recollect Seeing at one time a discharge in his possession but what has become of them I can not snow Say for I never him after he wrote the letter of May 4th 1843 to sue to attend to his claim to a pension. And further in yours of the 14th Just you regain some authenticity as to who wrote the letter for my father requesting us to undertake for him to get his pension I would say that a Mr. Jenkins acted as Secretary to him in his old age but has left the State of So Carolina so that I cannot get his testimony on that particulars as I do not Know where he is. The only amendment that I am able to make which I think likely to give Satisfaction would be to make a Supplemental declaration which from the very near analogy it may be as to the Comptroller Certificate should be sufficient in [illegible] The Sevices which my father has repeatedly informed me he performed in the revolutionary war are as follows, first a private horseman under two Captains (Jolly & Palmer alternately), then Lieutenant of horses in Capt Jolly's Company and then Captain of horses in Col BBrandon's Regiment and was acquainted in Service with Capt Joseph McJunkins who he said served in Sauss regiment and I would the Department knows was a pensioner and died a few years ago in Union District So Carolina he also informed me that he was also acquainted in Service with Thomas Young of
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the same place who also was pensioned by the United States for Service in said war and a reference to the Service and proof of these two individuals I hope will give Satisfaction.  It seems to me that there is now [illegible] and stronger circumstances in favor of my application than there was in Sarah Pardue or Catharine Tankersly either both of which were allowed a few years ago under my agency If a Supplemental declaration will answer render the above circumstances I would thank you to inform me of that fact and if not I will withdraw my claim at the war department and place it before the Legislature of So Carolina for a State pension where the services were performed if not contrary to rules of the Department to return such papers to applicants all or all of which you you will answer me at Hollingsworth Georgia.
Your with due respect &c
Thomas J. Hughes
J.L Edwards
Com of Pensions

I made my declaration before I got the certificate the Comptroller Genl as before I know that I could get it thinking that I could get other proof - yours &c Tho. J. Hughes
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82752
Georgia
Joseph Hughes dec?
of Habersham Co in the State of Georgia
                       cavy
who was Lt & Capt in the [blank] commanded 
by Captain [blank] of the commanded
by [blank] in the [blank]
line for [blank]

For Letter to L.B. True July 24,
1850
Reported
Letter Jno R. Stanford Best/67
ex
W.S.A.

Inscribed on the Roll of Savannah
of the rate of 499 Dollars 72 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831, & end 20 April 1844, when he died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 
1850 and sent to
Thos [crossed out] Lumpkin [crossed out] Sect/67
Hon H Cobb [illegible] H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to his surviving 
child, viz.
Thos. J Hughes

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J.P. Chase Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 97
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Libert Hall SC
May 5        12/2    O.3

Thomas J Hughes
Clarkville
Georgia
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State of South Carolina
Newberry District May 7th 1843
To Mr. Thomas J. Hughes
Dear Sir
I now gladly embrace the opportunity of sending you a few lines to inform you of my situation of life. I am very low in health and a hard put it is to get the necessaries of life. Joseph has repeatedly promised to help me but continues to fail to do so and [cross out] I know your situation is such that I believe you are unable to do any thing for me than you have already with willingly done I feel a delicacy in calling on you for any more help at Present but I have with reluctance concluded that if you will come and attend to it for me to try to get a pension for my service in the Revolutionary War and if you can attend to it I would be glad how soon you would come.
I hope to see  you before long.
I remain your loving father until death.
Joseph Hughes
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O. 15

H No. 2
Affidavit of John Wilson & Matthew Wilson
4 July 1850
& Letter of Hughes to Lumpkin
8 July 1850
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State of Georgia
Habushaw County
On this 4th day of July 1850
Personally appeared John Wilson aged Seventy Eight years and Matthew Wilson aged Seventy Six years and after being first duly sworn in terms of law Saith on oath that they were personally acquainted with Joseph Hughes late of South Carolina _ the father of Thomas J. Hughes now of Habershem County, Georgia, and always understood that he rendered a respectful time of Service both as a private and officer in the Calvary of the revolution in the army of the United States and that at one time for safety the women and children were compelled to take protection in a fort in South Carolina and that they (officants) were among those who took protection and while there saw the Said Joseph Hughes and that their recollection of him is more distinct than any other person as he was a man of note and that he was always honored with the appellation of Captain of the horse in the revolution.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above stated.

Thomas B. Wheeler S S G
John Wilson 
Matthew Wilson

I hereby certify that the veracity of the above named officants is such that may be relied on for truth and honesty.
Thomas B. Wheeler
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State of Georgia
Habushaw County    I James E. Griggs Clerk of the Superior Court in said County, do hereby certify that Thomas B. Wheeler is a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid as above duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 6th day of January 1849, and will expire on the first Monday in January 1853, and that his signature herein above written are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and Seal of Office this 5th day of July 1850.

James E. Griggs, Clerk, S, G,


[Round circle evident on document; but no Seal of Office visible]
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Clarksville July 8th 1850

Dear Sir,
In confidence with your request of me to furnish more testimony in support of your father's services &c I herewith hasten to do so in order that you may receive it as soon as possible I have thought it best to send direct to you instead of through Hon Speaker Cobb as he is often so presured with busines of importance that he is unavoidably compelled to postpone some. you can solicit his aid as you may need it.
I hope this will answer every purpose.

Report to me at Clarksville Georgia
Your very truly &c
Thomas J Hughes

Tho Lumpkin Esq.
Pension Agent
Washington DC
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Oct 16/49
Addl [illegible]

Hollingsworth Ga free
16 Oct    Tho. J. Hughes of [illegible]
Edwards Court of Pensions
War Department 
Washington City
D C
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Hollingsworth Georgia Oct 9th 1849

Sir,
I herewith send an affidavit of identity by which I hope it will satisfy the department of my right to the Pension due my father Joseph Hughes at his death. I sent a suitable affidavit Some time ago, together with Some others, to the House of L.B True &c of Washington City but they never answer me by way of informing me what they can or will do for me and if nothing has been done in my favor through their attention before this reaches I would this department to recognize their agency no longer in any of my cases, as in all probability my claim will now be allowed I would request early action and answer on it.

Answer me at Hollingsworth Georgia,
Yours with due respect & G

Thomas I. Hughes

J.L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
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O.2

Certificate from Comptrollers 
Office So Carolina
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Comptroller General' Office
Columbia 28 Feby 1848

Indent Book X No.2372} Issued 10 April 1786 to [illegible]:
Joseph Hughes for L [English pound sign]  300:17.10 duty in Brandon' Regt; prove and dated.

L [English pound sign]  300:17.10

The State of South Carolina
To Joseph Hughes
For 190 days duty as Horseman, from the 3d Feby 1779 to 13th Feby 1780, alternately in the Company' of Jolly