Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1108, Richard Walker, Continental Va.
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(3-1776)
Continental
Va.

Walker, Richard, 
Anson.

NUMBER
W1108
B. L. Wt. 2411-100
B. L. Wt. 19.707 - 160 - 55
and Va. Half Pay.

CONTENTS
[blank]
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15 275
R
West Tennessee

Richard Walker
of the Cy. of Bedford in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel White of the Virginia
line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the roll of W. Tennessee
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 12th of December 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of October 1819 
and sent to Alfred M. Harris Esqr
Pulaski West Tennessee

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 8 mon. 20/31 4/3  $70.22
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1820
48
[total]     $118.20

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued 11 May 1826, and
notification sent to S. R. Rucker
(See letter also) at Murfreesboro, 
Tenn

See letter to S. R. Rucker, 24 Nov. 1825.

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 April 1838, from 4 Sep 1830 to 31 Jany 1831. Agt Notified 3March 1842.
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152270
Act March 3.
May 29 '55

Anson Walker, wid.
Richard Walk, pri.

Capt. Beld
Col. Bluford
Cont. Line

Private
Col Bland
Va Line

Revy War

Receivg. pens. at Nashville Agency

Linn Lelz 48 - 579
Ad. 160 acr Mar 27/ 56
[illegible]

John N. Warner
Chapel Hill
Tenn.
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579
Tennessee Nashville
Anson Walker
widow of Richard Walker
Va
who served in the Revolutionary war
as a pri of Cavalry

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

Certificate of Pension issued the 
29 day of June 1848
and sent to
Smith & Kendrick
Nashville
Ann
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 315 Vol. 3

Reg 3 m 59.152470

Reported
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Richard Walker
W. 2411

Edwd. F. Brown
Present
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Substitutes or aturnees under him for the
special purposes above expressed. Novr 11. 1846.
James Walker
Attest
William B. Ginnings
S. D. Ginnings
James Billington L. S.
Sarah Billington X her mark L. S.
M. T. Venable L. S.
Polly Venable X her mark L. S.
John Walker L. S.

Personally apeard. James Walker, John Walker
Sarah Billington & Polly Venable James Billington & Thos Venable Subscribers to the forgoing declaration and made oath to the same and
in my presence acknowledged the power of
aturing thereto subjoind to be their free act and
deed for the purposes therein mentioned this 11 of November 1846
George R May
J.P. of Marshall County

State of Tennessee Marshall County Sct
I John Elliott Clerk of the County Court of said Marshall County hereby Certify that George R. May is a Justice of the peace as above and that the foregoing Signation purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Lewisburg this 7th day of December 1846
John Elliott Clk of sd. County Court
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Department of War
regulations for the heirs of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army who were slain by the enemy or who have died since the war and have not received land from the United States
By an act of Congress of the 11th September 1776 it is provided that the officers and soldiers who engaged for and continued to serve during the war or until discharged by Congress and the heirs of such officers and soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy shall
receive land in proportion to thare [sic] rank
N.B. Those who engaged for three years or for any other period then during the war or who died of sickness fatigue or casualty are not entitled to land from the United States
the following declaration (and inclosed [sic] blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities

State of Tennessee
County of Marshall We James Billington for Sara his wife formerly Sarah Walker, Polly Venable formerly Polly Walker, James Walker, John Walker
heirs at law of Richard Walker deceased do upon oath testify and declare to the best of our knowledge and belief that Richard Walker deceased, entered the service in 1776 for the term of
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two years and at the expiration of the two years the said Richard Walker did enter during the war and served as a private of Cavalry in the regiment No [blank] under the command of Colonel Spencer Bluford of the Virginia Continental line and that he continued in the service aforesaid untill [sic] the end of the war
as will appear from his pension papers on file. we further declare that we have never received a warrant for the County land promised to the said Richard Walker on the part of the united States nor do we belive [sic] that he ever received it or transferd his Claim to it in any manner whatsoever therefore know all men by these presents that we James Walker, John
Walker, Sarah Billington and Polly Venable doe [sic] hereby constitute and apoint [sic] Edward F. Brown of Washington City to be our true and lawful aturny [sic] for us and in our names to demand and receive from the Secetary [sic] of war of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to us as afore said and our said aturny [sic] is hereby fully authorised [sic] and impowered to constitute and apoint [sic] one or more
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STATE OF Tennessee Marshall County
At a court held for Marshall county, at last December Term 1846 satisfactory evidence was adduced in court , Sarah Billington formaly [sic] Sarah Walker, Polly Venable formely [sic] Polly Walker, James Walker, John H. Walker and Edward Walker are the only children and [blank] heirs at law in fee to Richard Walker
late a Private of Cavalry in the [blank] Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, under the
of Col. Spencer Bedford 
I, John Elliott Clerk of the county court, do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office at Lewisburg in Marshall County, Tennessee
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal this 7th day of December 1846
John Elliott Clk of
County Court

The above form will answer for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and other Western States.
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V 6011
Anson Walker
of Richard
Tennessee
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In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows

State of Tennessee Marshall County District No 10 On this the 25th day of June 1839 personally appeared before the subscribers of the County and State of said Anson Walker a resident of the State of Tennessee in the County of Marshall aged seventy years on the 22nd day of August last past who being duly
sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July the 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that She is the widow of Richard Walker who was a private and served in Captain Spencer and Blufords company in the first regiment Virginia Line of horse, Colonel and resigned and Colonel White
commanded, the said Richard Walker was a
pensioner and drew a pension of eight dollars
per month from the 12th day of December 1818 She further declares that she was married to the said Richard Walker on the 12th day of December 1790 that her husband the afforesaid [sic] Richard Walker died on the 31st day of January 1831 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 viz at the time above stated, Sworn to and subs
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[sub] cribed on the day and year above written
before us. The afforesaid [sic] Anson Walker also made his oath that there was never any family record kept either of date of marriage or births of children she also swears that she has never intermarried with any person since the death of her said husband
Anson Walker
X
her mark
Joseph H Brittain JP [seal]
Andrew Laird JP [seal]

State of Tennessee Marshall County
We Joseph H. Brittain and Andrew Laird said Justices of the peace for said County do hereby certify that we are acquainted with Anson Walker and believe that she from her bodily infirmities is not able to attend the Court of record for said county given under our hands and seals this the 25th day of June 1839
Joseph H Brittain JP
Andrew Laird JP [seal]

State of Tennessee Marshall County
This day personally appeared before us John Weatherly aged about 53 years and made oath in due form of Law that he was personally acquainted with Richard Walker and Anson Swearingen Late Consort of the said Richard Walker decd. and that said couple was married at his fathers house in Burke County North Carolina by a preacher named John Barlow
and he thinks the mariage [sic] took place about the year 1790 to the best of his knowledge and the said Anson Walker as [illegible] is the Identical widow of the said Richard Walker decd. Sworn to and Subscribed
June 25th 1839
John Weatherly
X
his mark
Joseph H Brittain JP
Andrew Laird JP
John Weatherly
mark
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State of Tennessee Sct Marshall County
We Joseph H Brittain  & Andrew Laird Justices
of the peace for said County do believe and
have no other reasons to disbelieve that the
statements made by John Weatherly respecting the Legality of the marriage of Richard Walker and Anson Walker his wife is Correct
June 25th 1839
Joseph C. Brittain JP [seal]
Andrew Laird JP [seal]
State of Tennessee 
Marshall County
I Martin W. Oakley clerk of   the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Joseph H Brittain and Andrew Laird are acting Justices of the peace for said County and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine and that full faith and credit are due all their official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in
Lewisburg this 17th day of August A. D. 1839

Martin W. Oakley [seal]
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6011
State of Tennessee
Marshall County To wit
I Benjamin Williams Chairman of said Marshall County Court do certify that Martin W. Oakley who made the above certificate is and was at the time of making the same the Clerk of our said
County Court duly elected and qualified that the certificate is in due form and Sealed with our County Seal. Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of August 1839
B. Williams [seal]
Chairman and of Marshall County Court
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152.470

Bounty Land Claim
of
Mrs. Anson wid. of Richard Walker Decsd.
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State of Tennessee
County of Marshall
On this fourteenth day of May A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Anson Walker aged about eighty six years, a resident of Marshall County in the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Richard Walker, deceased, who was a
private in the company commanded by Captain (Bell as she believes) in the Regiment of Virginia Cavalry of the Continental line commanded by (Bluford as she believes) in the Revolutionary War, that her said husband enlisted at [blank] about [blank] for the term of the continuation of the war, she states that she has often heard her said husband say that he actually served five years in said war, and was honorably discharged at [blank] about [blank]
She further states that her husband, the said Richard Walker, made the necessary proof in his life time, and drew a pension for his said services, up to the time of his death, and that she as the widow of the said Richard Walker is at present drawing a pension, as a pensioner on the Nashville roll, at the rate of $100.00
dollars by the year which is paid to her semiannually, For further information she refers you, to her papers on file in the pension office
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd 1855. she also declares that she has not received nor applied for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress she also further states that she was married to the said Richard Walker in North Carolina, in Wilkes County, in the year 1780, in the month of December, by one John Barlow, a Baptist Minister of the Gospel, and that her name before her said marriage was Anson Swearingen that her said husband died in Bufford County, State of Tennessee, on the 31st day of January AD. 1831, that she is now a widow. That she does not know of the existence of a public Record of said marriage and is not possessed of a private or family Record of the same
Anson Walker
X
her mark
We James Billington and Mary Ann Hogue residents of Marshall County in the State of Tennessee, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed &
acknowledged by Mrs Anson Walker in our presence, that she is the widow of Richard
Walker deceased, that we knew them to live together as husband and wife many years
and were as such considered in the neighborhood in which they resided, and she
is still his widow and truly the person she represents herself to be, that the
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said Richard Walker is the identical person who drew a pension in his life time, as set forth in the declaration of his widow Mrs Anson Walker, and that she, the said Anson Walker is at this time drawing a pension, as a pensioner on the roll at Nashville, as the widow of Richard Walker deceased as aforesaid, And
that he, the said Richard Walker died, about the time set forth in the declaration of the said Anson Walker
And that we have no interest in
James Billington
Mary Hogue

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written, and I certify that the affiants are credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that [I] have no interest in this claim
G R May [seal]
J. P. of Marshall County

State of Tennessee Marshall County
I Stephen Tally Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that G.R. May Esq, whose signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit, is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the
in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 23rd
day of May A.D. 1855

Stephen Tally
Address. 
John H. Warner
Chapel Hill
Marshall Co
Tennessee
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19724
Richard Walker
Bedford Co. Tenn.
declaration
---
S. R. Rucker
Murfreesboro, Tenn:
---
Recd 20 Aug. 1825
on roll page 316,
as a private of Cavly  $57
Service admitted
On Roll.

Suspd see letter 22nd
Aug. 1825 -

Adm
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District of West Tennessee
Bedford County-
On this 2nd day of August 1825 personally appeared in open court in the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions of the County of Bedford, the same being a court of record Richard Walker a resident in said County of Bedford, aged about seventy years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & the 1st of May 1820, that he the said Richard Walker enlisted for two years in the year 1776 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt Spencer in the Regiment commanded by Col Taylor in the Virginia line on the continental establishment, where he continued to serve until he was suffered to until in a company of cavalry commanded by Capt John Bluefield in the Regiment commanded by Col Theodorick Bland on the continental establishment in which he served three years & again enlisted in the same corps during the war, in all which
corps he served seven years when he was discharged in the State of South Carolina
That he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown & Monmouth & that he has no other evidence of his services except the affidavit of William Bruce & Milly Bruce accompanying this declaration. And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 & the other acts of Congress which have been since passed
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I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the 18th day
of March 1818 & that I have not since that  time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed
of my property or any part thereof, for any purpose whatever, as I had no property then, nor have I had any since nor have I any now, and that And that no person had then or since, nor has any person now in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor had I then or since, nor have I now any
income whatsoever - And I do hereby relinquish all claim to a pension or Bounty from the United States other than the one I am now applying I am not now receiving any  pension from the Government. His occupation is that of a shoemaker, but in consequence of his eye sight having failed him & three wounds he received in the revolutionary war, he is unable to make a necessary support. He has a wife named Ansen aged about fifty seven years
& he & his wife have to depend on the bounty of a son in law for support. He being a poor man
Richard Walker
X
his mark
Sworn to and declared on in open Court 2nd day of August 1825
Jas. Mc Kisich Clk
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County    ⎬

I James McKissick Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions of the County of Bedford do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration is
truly copied from the records of said Court, that it was proved to the satisfaction of said Court, that the declarant Richard Walker is entitled to full credit on his oath & that he is in such indigent circumstances as to require the support of government, In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said
Court at office this 3rd day of August 1825 & of the independence of the United States
the 49th

Jas. Mc Kissick

[seal]
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State of Tennessee [illegible]
Sixth Judicial Circuit

This day personly [sic] appeared before me Alfred M Harris one of the Circuit Judges in and for the State of Tennessee the undersigned Richard Walker who being sworn deposeth & saith that he is a citizen of the United States of america & resident in the County of Bedford
and State of Tennessee and that he all enlist
in the County of Culpepper in the State of Virginia as a private solider on the continental
establishment for the term of three years in a company then commanded by Capt John Bluefield in the 1st Virginia Regiment of Light horse men of the Continental troop,s that he served out his term faithfully against the Common enemy Great Brittain [sic] & was at the end was honorably discharged by General ----- Steuben at Richmond in the State of Virginia which discharge hath been taken out of his Pocket Book and has never been able to find it & he says he was in the Battles of Brandywine & the Battle of Germantown and many skirmishes
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State of Tennessee 
I Daniel McKissick of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Bedford in the State aforesaid do duly Certify that Alfred M Harris Esquire before whom Richard Walker took & subscribed the foregoing oath is due at the time of administered the same Judge of the sixth
Judicial Circuit in the State aforesaid & that full faith & credit ought to be given to his official acts as such. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my private seal (there being
no other seal of Office), this 17th day of December 1878
Danl McKissick

[seal]
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
EEL/MlB [illegible initials]

June 11, 1230

Celestia Parshall
Probate Court
Howell, Michigan

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 1108, it appears that Richard Walker enlisted in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1776 and served as a private in Captain Spencer's Company,
Colonel Taylor's Virginia Regiment, length of service not stated.
He reenlisted, date not shown, served as a private in Captains John Belfield and Gunn's Company, Colonels Theodoric Bland and White's Regiment of Dragoons; was in the battles of Brandywine where he was wounded on his thigh; Germantown, Monmouth and Le Nud's Ferry on the Santee River in South Carolina, where he received a severe wound on his left shoulder; was in many skirmishes and was discharged at the close of the war.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 12, 1818, at which time he was in the sixty-third year of his age and resided in Bedford County, Tennessee.
He died January 31, 1831 in Bedford County, Tennessee.
The soldier married December 12, 1790, in Wilkes or Burke County, North Carolina, Anson Swearingin or Swearinggin.
She was allowed pension on her application executed June 25, 1839, at which time she was aged seventy years and resided in Marshall County, Tennessee. In 1855 he was still living in Marshall County, Tennessee.
In 1846 the following were the only surviving children of the soldier, Richard Walker: Sarah Billington, wife of James Billington; Polly Venable, wife of Thomas Venable; and James, John and Edward Walker,
No charge is made for this service.
Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner

[handwritten in margin]
Left off Wm for Capt Gunn as it appeared to be James Gunn who was m 1st Cont Dragoons also omitted Wm for Col White as name is Anthony Wm White 
Did not use Griffin Fauntleroy as he was only Lt. in 1st Cont. Dragoons -
Also left out Col Spencer Bluford as he was only given in children's statement

No date of death of [illegible] on A B
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Revy
WIDOW & c.

File No. 1108
Anson Walker 
Widow
Richard Walker
Priv. Cav. Rev. War.

Act: Feb 2, 1848
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 304

{Arrangement of 1870.}

1930 - June 11, Hist
to Celestia Parshall - EEL
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No. 18766

Richard Walker
Va Line
Revolution
Discharged [blank], 18
6047

REJECTED [crossed out]

H'f. Pay
18
Received
Act 32
187
Attorney.
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3492
Tennessee, Nashville
Anson Walker
widow of Richard Walker
who was a Private of Cavalry
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
100 Dollars
per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
8 day of Decr 1863
and sent to H Yoakum
Murfreesborough, Ten.

(Act of March 3, 1843.)
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1 Page 223
Repd
See letter to William Selden Oct 8 1846
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Tennessee 6495
Anson Walker
widow of Richard Walker
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 31 January 1831 of Marshall Co in the State of Tennessee who was a Pr. Cavalry in the company commanded
by Captain Bellfield of the regt. commanded
by Col. Bland in the Va. line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Nashville at the rate of 100 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Dec.
1841 and sent to H. Yoakum Esq. Murfreesboro, Ten.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $500.00

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk.
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 209
to
See let to H. Yoakum -
25th June, 1842.-
Letters to 3d Auditor and
H Yoakum Esq. Murfreesboro
Tennessee Aug 18th 1842

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of April 6th 1838 from Decr 12th 1818 to 4th March 1820
Agent notified Sept 3rd 1842
see let to H. Yoakum
Aug. 25. 1843-
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19707
[illegible]
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See letter to S. R. Rucker
24 Nov 1825 and 11 May 1826 -
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Suspd see letter to S. R. Rucker, 
24 Nov. 1825
last papers
Recd. March 17. 1826
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See letter to S. R. Rucker
24th Nov. 1825, and 11 May 1826.

New certificate issued 1st July 1826, and sent to S. R. Rucker, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Letter to H. Yoakum 2 June 1841.
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Richard Walker
Pt - [Private ?]

Act 5 July 1832
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A R McShann
[illegible]

Col. J. L. Edwards
Com Pensions
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Anson Walker
Tennessee
-
-
Suspended
let [letter] 9 Nov '39 to
M. W. Oakley Clk
Court Marshall Co
let. 21 May 41
H. Yoakum, Let: 10th
Sep. 41 to do.

Act 7 July 1838
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Know all men by these presents, that We J. Billington for Sarah his wife formerly Sarah Walker, Thomas Venable for his wife Polly for [formerly] Polly Walker, James Walker and heirs at Law of of Richard Walker deceased, late a Private of Cavalry in the Virginia Continental Line, Revolutionary War, do hereby constitute
and appoint Edmund F. Brown, of Washington City, to be our true and lawful Attorney, for us and in our names to demand and receive from the General Land Office, such Land Scrip as may be issued upon a Warrant for land due for the services of the aforesaid Richard Walker
of the Revolutionary War, and the said Attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to sell said Scrip, or dispose of it in such manner as he may judge expedient.
In Testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals at Chapel
Hill this 11th day of Novr 1846.
J. Billington [seal]
James Walker [seal]
Sarah Billington
X
her mark
Polly Venable
X
her mark
Thos Venable [seal]
John Walker [seal]

Witnesses
Wm. B. Jennings
T. D. Jennings 

Acknowledged before me, this 11th day of Novr 1846.
George R. May
of Marshall County J. Peace
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Murfreesboro
Nov 5th 1823

Sir

In the case of Richard Walker an applicant for a pension & whose papers are now on the files of your department undecided on, I send you enclosed his affidavit shewing the reason why
he did not sooner apply for a pension according to directions contained in a letter from Mr Edwards - The affidavit was made in my absence; but presume it will do
Respectfully your most obt [obedient] vy [very] 
Humble Svt [servant]
S. R. Rucker

Honorable J Barbour
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Murfreesboro Tenn
May 10. 1841

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
The claim of Mrs Anson Walker, widow of Richd Walker decd of Marshall County Tennessee, which was sometime since said before you, was not allowed, for want of proper proof of Marriage.
You will perceive by the deposition of John Grayson & Love Grayson herewith sent, that this deficiency has been supplied as the marriage was by publication of [illegible],
of course there was no record in court made
of the matter
At the time of the death of Richd. Walker there was a balance of pension due. This balance the widow asks may be allowed her at the proper office in Washington on the proof herewith and heretofore sent on
Please advise me of the result of your conclusions in her case
I am sir
Very Respy
H. Yoakum
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Sir
War Department
Pension Office
November 9, 1839
The declaration and testimony in the case of Mrs Anson Walker, widow of Richard Walker decd have been examined and filed with suspended cases. The proof of the period
of the marriage is not sufficient. The certificate
of the Clerk of the Court of the County in
North Carolina where the marriage was solemnized should be exhibited shewing what
proof of the marriage said records afford. If
none the witness should state particularly from
what circumstances he is enabled to fix the
period of the marriage as set forth in his affidavit
I  am, Very respectfully
Yr. [Your] Mo. [Most]  Obt [Obedient] St [Servant]
Geo W. Crump

Martin W. Oakley
Court Marshall Co.
Lewisburg P. O.
Tenn.
-
Tenn
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Murfreesborough Tenn
Aug 30. 1841

Sir


In answer to yours of the 21 May last, asking, in relation to the claim of Mrs Anson Walker that "the witnesses should state from what
circumstances they are enabled to determine the period of the marriage to have been in "1790" I enclose the deposition of one of the witnesses.
The other was too infirm, as I am informed, to give her deposition.
The one here inclosed [sic] is informally taken, but it is hoped will prove satisfactory
Will you please forward to me the original pension certificate of Richd Walker, or a copy thereof, for the purpose of enabling the widow to obtain the balance of Pension on her husband at the time of his
death
Very Respy
H. Yoakum

Hon J. L. Edwards
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
Feby 4th 1842.

Sir:

Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, the widow of Richard Walker decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Ten. Agency, at the rate of
Eight Dollars per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1830 to the 31st Jan'y 1831-
Respectfully, yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 22d 1842.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the widow of Richard Walker, deceased, late a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Ten. Agency, at the rate of Eight - Dollars per month under the law of the 18th Mar 1878 has been paid at this Department, from the 12th of Dec. 1818, to the 4th March 1820.

Respectfully, yours
Albion Parris
Comptroller.


To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

Mch 20
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Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

M Stewart

[postmark]
MURFREESBORO TENN

FREE

June 24, 1842
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Murfreesboro Tennessee
June 12, 1842

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir  on the 2nd October 1819 a pension issued to Richard Walker, late deceased, and was transmitted to his attorney - a man by the name of-- Harris, perhaps- but never came to
hand and in 1826 a certificate in lien of the one lost, was issued & he received the money on the same until his death. His widow Mrs Anson Walker of Marshall County Tennessee is now a pensioner, or was under the act of 1838.
Richd Walker in his lifetime applied through his
attorney - Rucker, for the balance of pension due him between the 12th day of December 1818, and 1826 but Rucker, in the meantime died, and he never received it.
Mrs Anson Walker wishes to know from your
department whether Rucker, or any other person ever drew the pension of her husband from 1818 to 1826 - and if not, how she shall proceed to get the same under existing
Laws.
Below you will see a copy of the second
certificate issued to Richard Walker
Very Resp
Yr Obt Sert [Your Obedient Servant]
H Yoakum

6495- Act July 7th 1838
Nashville Agency
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Copy

War Department
Revolutionary Claim
Duplicate
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818 Richard Walker late a private in the army of the Revolution inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the West Tennessee agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War office of the United States
this first day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventy six

James Barbour
Secretary of War"

[seal]
Examined and countersigned
J. L. Edwards

This certificate issued in lieu of one dated 2nd October 1819, which is supposed to be lost or destroyed and which, should it be hereafter presented for payment, the pension agent will please to return to the War Department.
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June 24, 1842
From the books in 2d Comptrollers Office it appears that Rd. Walker was placed on the Roll commencing Dec. 12 1818 but no payments made till after his commencement of Aug 3. 1825.
J. Sessford, Clk
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6011
Anson Walker
of Richard
Tennessee
Admitted

Private of Cavaly 2 ms.  $100
Cap Bellfield Col. Bland, Va.

died 31 January 1831

Act 7 July 1838

E

H Yoakum
Murfreesboro,
Tenn
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Hon. James L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington 

Y.
11 Oct 1843

Return care
Anson Walker
act 1843

[postmark]
MURFREESBORO TENN
OCT 3 

FREE PAID
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Murfreesboro Tenn
Oct 2, 1843

Hon James L Edwards
Sir
I send enclosed the declaration Mrs Anson Walker, with the certificate thereon of the Justice of the Peace that he was acquainted with the declarant
Hoping it will be right
I am Sir
Very Resp
Yr. Obt. Svt. [Your Obedient Servant]
H. Yoakum
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Nashville 19 June 1848.
Sir
We enclose you Mrs Anson Walker's declaration (under Act 2d Feby 1848 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War).
If allowed you will please enclose the Pension Certificate to us at this place
Very Respy
Smith & Kendrick


J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
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Murfreesboro Tenn
May 29-1843

Hon. James L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Herewith I send you the declaration of Mrs Anson Walker of Marshall county, for a pension under the act of March 3. 1843
Very Respy
Yr. Obt. Sert [Your Obedient Servant]
H. Yoakum
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31st of October 1823 -
This day personally appeared before me Richard Walker and made oath that six or seven years ago he applied to a certain R C Thompson Esq. to make out his documents to and transmit them to the war department for his pension and the reason he has never applied as is that he was waiting to hear from the war department about the documents to transmitted but so soon as he dispaired of the first he immediatly [sic] applied for those that are now before the department
Richard Walker
X
his mark
Sworn to before me this day and date above
the 31 Oct 1825
G W Oliver
State of Tennessee
Rutherford County Sct.

I John R. Laughlin, Clerk of the County Court of pleas and quarter sessions, within and for the County and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that George W. Oliver, Esquire, before whom Richard Walker made the above affidavit is an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that all his official acts are
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entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at office, this 31st day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and of the Independence of the United States the fiftieth.
John R. Laughlin, Clk.
of said court.

State of Tennessee
Rutherford County Sct.
I Logan Henderson, Chairman of the County Court of pleas and quarter sessions, within and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John R. Laughlin, Esquire, whose official signature appears to the foregoing
certificate is the acting Clerk of said court, that his said attestation is in due form of law, and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith
and credit in any court or office in the United States 
Given under my hand and seal
at the County of Rutherford in the
State of Tennessee, this 31st day of
October A. D. 1825.
Logan Henderson, clk
of said court

[seal]
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(Copy)
R. Walker

Pension Office
September 16. 1846

Sir

Your letter addressed to the Tresurer [sic] of
the U. States, with the papers which accompanied the same have been referred to this Office.
In reference to the claims for commutation pay
and bounty land, in right of Richard Walker, decd. who was a Private of Dragoon in the Virginia Continental Line, I have to inform you that none but Commissioned officers of the Line of the Revolutionary Army, were entitled to the commutation of "5 years full pay" in lieu of the "half pay for life" promised by the Resolutions of Congress of the 21st October 1780. All that was promised by the old Congress to the non commissioned Officers and soldiers of the Revolution who enlisted for "during the war" and served to the end thereof in 1783, was a gratuity of Eighty dollars, or one years extra pay, and 100 Acres Military bounty land. The records in this Office show that Richard Walker, received at the
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close of the war, the aforementioned gratuity of Eighty dollars, and they also shew that his claim for Bounty and has not been heretofore satisfied consequently there is nothing due on the part of the U. States, in right of Richard Walker decd except the bounty land in question and a warrant for that bounty will be granted to his heirs at law in fee, upon the production at this office of the necessary proof of their heirship according to the printed form for that purpose, which is herewith sent and the same to be accompanied by a power of attorney from one or more of the heirs
authorizing you to demand and receive such
Warrant.
The widow of Richard Walker is not an heir
at law in fee to her deceased husband under the laws of descent of either the State of Tennessee or the State of Virginia

Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. [Obedient Servant]
J. L. Edwards

Signed

Mr. John Bruce
Murfreesbrough, Tennessee.
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1804

A. Walker

$100

H. Yoakum
Murfreesborough
Ten.
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State of Tennessee
Marshall County
On this the Twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Joseph H Brittain a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Marshall afforesaid [sic] Anson Walker a resident in the County afforesaid aged about Seventy four years who being first
duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war That she is the widow of Richard Walker who was a private in Captain Spencers & Bellfields company in the first regiment of the Virginia line of horse of the army according to the best of her recollection The annual amount of her pension under the act of July 7th 1838 was one hundred Dollars The money was drawn by her attorney in fact James Billington
Anson Walker
X
her mark
[seal]


Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day
and in the year above Written
Joseph H Brittains
Justice of the peace
for Marshall County

Witness to the above signature
John Billington
Reuben Willington
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State of Tennessee
Marshall County

I Martin W. Oakley clerk Marshall County  of the County Court of said Marshall County, do certify that Joseph H. Brittain who has attested the foregoing declaration of Anson Walker, is and was at the time of attesting the same a Justice of the peace for our said County duly Elected, commissioned and qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Leesburg, this 1st day of May A.D. 1843
Martin W. Oakley Clerk
of Marshall County Court


State of Tennessee 
Marshall County 
I Burgess Hardin Chairman of the our County Court of Marshall do certify that Martin W. Oakley whose name appears to the above certificate is and was at the time of signing the same clerk of the county court of Marshall duly elected and qualified for the same and that his certificate is in due form of law and that all his official acts in to full faith and credit, and that the seal attached to the same is the only seal used in said office. Given under my hand and seal this 20 day of May 1843-
Burgess Hardin [seal]
chairman of said Court
At
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State of Tennessee 
Marshall County
To wit
I, Joseph H Brittain Justice of the peace for said County, do certify that Anson Walker the foregoing declarant, is and was at the time of making said declaration personally known to me. Given under my hand and seal this the 26th day of September 1843
Joseph H Brittain
Justice of the peace
for Marshall County

[seal]
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County
Personally came before me James Sanders a Justice for said County William Bruce and Milley Bruce, and made Oath that some time a bought [sic about] the commencement of the Revolutionary War With Britton [sic] that Richard Walker, enlisted in the Army as a Solder with One Joseph Shener [Spencer ?], and is at the time about at Sixty seven or eight years old, and that he served at least seven years in the army as a Solder, and that we are personally acquainted with said Walker and know him to be the same man, 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th June 1825
William Bruce 
Milley Bruce

Sworn to and acknowledged in my presence
Jas Sanders
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County          
Alfred H Douglass Clerk of the Court of pleas
and quarter Sessions for said County of Sumner do certify that James Sanders again
before whom the within affidavit of William
Bruce & Milley Bruce purports to have been made and was on the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit is due his Official acts as such 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at office
this 27th day of June Anno Domani 1825 & 49th year of America Independence
A. H. Douglass Clerk

State of Tennessee
Sumner County
I Peter H. Martin presiding Justice our County Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for sd. County do certify that A. H. Douglas is Clerk of Sd. Court and that his attestations as such here to annexed is in due form of law given under my hand & seal at Gallatin June 27th 1825
P. H. Martin P. J. [Presiding Justice] [seal]
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County     ⎬ 
Be it remembered that on this 10th day of February 1826 came before William D. Orr Esquire an acting Justice of the peace for the said County of Bedford, Aaron I Wilson of lawful age & made oath, that he is well acquainted with Richard Walker a revolutionary soldier & resident of Bedford County & knows that he got Samuel R Rucker to make out his declaration for a pension in the year 1825 & saw him sworn to said declaration in open court in Bedford County-- And that he saw the same person Sworn to a declaration for a pension in the year of 1818 or 1819 he does not recollect which, before Alfred M Harris
Esquire a circuit judge of the State of Tennessee, who then presided in the County of Bedford & that he is the very identical person who made both declarations - That said Harris is not now the judge of this circuit, he having resigned & now lives in the town of Pulaski about forty five miles from the residence of
said Walker. That said Walker having no home & being very old & infirm, has no means of going to he said Harris to prove his identity. And that he believes said Harris knows nothing of Walker declaration subsequently made & would not be able if he were to see him
to recognise [sic] him as this affiant believes
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said Harris & Walker never having had as he believes any further personal acquaintance
than what occured [sic] at the time of the first
application of said Walker & residing in different counties

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 10th
day of February 1826 & I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the affiant, that he is respectable & of good standing in society is
titled to full credit as a witness
William D Orr [seal]

State of Tennessee
Bedford County           ⎬
On this 15th day of February 1826 came before William Murphree Esquire an acting Justice
the peace for the County of Bedford John Wortham & made oath that he has examined the foregoing affidavit that he is acquainted with the said Richard Walker & knows the facts stated in said affidavit to be true as they came within his own observation & that he knows of no other person by the name of Richard Walker, now residing or having resided in the County of Bedford
[signature] J Wortham

Sworn to & subscribed before
one the date above
William Murphree JP
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State of Ten
Bedford County
I James McKissick Clerk of the court of pleas & quarter Sessions of the County of Bedford do hereby certify that William D. Orr & William Murfree who signed the foregoing affidavits of Wilson & Wortham are & were at the time of
signing the same acting justices of the County of Bedford, duly Commissioned & qualified & that their official acts as such an entitled to full faith & credit. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 15th day of February A.D. 1826 & of the year of our independence the 50th
Jas. McKissick

State of Tennessee
Bedford County 
I Marmaduke Mitchell Chairman of the Court of pleas & quarter sessions of the County of Bedford, do hereby certify that James McKissick whose name appears to the foregoing certificate i & was at the time of signing the same Clerk of said Court, duly commissioned & qualified & that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit, & that said certificate is in due form of law
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand this 15th February 1826
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Shelbyville, June 9th 1826-
Sir:
I send you the enclosed affidavits of Harris, Wortham & Walker, showing that Richard Walker never received a pension certificate
issued for him on the 2nd October 1819 & that the same miscarried & has been lost, & that he has never drawn any pension money. you will therefore send on a duplicate, order or whatever may be necessary to enable him to draw his pension from the time of making his first declaration until the act of Congress of 1820 went into operation, requiring pensioners
to make exhibit of property & I also return to your department the notification sent to Richard Walker, for want of signature of the proper officer Plan to send to Murfreesboro as speedily as practicable the proper certificates & notification to enable Mr Walker to draw his pension money, as he is needy

Respectfully
---
S. R.  Rucker

Honble. J. Barbour
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Honble. James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington

Rec'd. Edwards
March 17, 1826

FREE

Shelbyville Tenn
Feb 19
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Shelbyville Ten-
February 15th 1826

Sir

In answer to the letter of Mr J. L. Edwards of the 24th Nov. last in relation to the application of Richard Walker for a pension, in which he states that a person by the name of Walker residing in the County of Bedford, had made
declaration on the 12th day of December 1818 & was then placed on the pension roll, & requiring proof of the identity of that person & the person who made a declaration in 1825 - I herewith send the affidavits of Wilson & Northam shewing that identity, for whose characters I refer you to Col Polk & Gen
Houston now members of Congress at Washington-- Mr Edwards required the testimony of the Judge before whom the application was made in 1818 to prove the identity of the claimant for not complying with this direction I beg leave to state that the judge who presided in this circuit in 1818 has resigned & was not judge when the claimant made his application in 1825 - That he resides in a distant county & knows nothing of the second application, And it is very probable
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that on account of the multiplicity of his
avocations & the obscurity of the claimant
that he would not know him if he were to see him-- Send the certificate & order to pay whatever may be due prior to the act of May 1820. enclosed to myself at Murfreesboro, before the 4th March next that the claimant who is poor
& needy may draw his money at that time-
I am respectfully
your most Obt Svt [Your Most Obedient Servant]
S. R. Rucker



Honble. James Barbour
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State of Tennessee
Knox County
This day personally appeared before me
Samuel Dickey and Shedrick Callaway two of acting justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid John Grason [Grayson] and Jane Grason [Grayson] his wife John [Grayson]  is about seventy five years of age Jane Grason [Grayson] his wife is about seventy seven years of age who after being first duly Sworn says that they was [sic] well acquainted with Richard Walker of the Revolutionary war and Anson his wife that these deponts [deponents] was [sic] present at their marriage which occurred in Burke County in the State of North Carolina at the house of Robert Nethery in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety in the fall or winter of said year they were joined in wedlock by the publication of banns by the Reverend John Barlow the said Ansons maiden name was Swearingin She now
resides as deponent is [sic] informed in Marshall County Tennessee and further
there about saith not
death
Subscribed and sworn to John Grayson
before us this 4th day Jane Grayson
of May 1841 wit do certify
mark
that said deponant is
persons of Respectability and worthy of credit
Samuel Dickey Seal
S. Calloway
Justices of the peace for said County
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State of Tennessee
Knox County 

I Moses M Swan Clerk of the County Court of
Knox County do hereby certify that Samuel
Dickey and Shedrick Calloway whose signature appears attesting the foregoing affidavit is and was at the date of attesting the same Justices of the peace in and for said County duly elected commissioned and qualified as such and the signature purporting to be theirs is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Knoxville this 5th day of May 1841
Moses M Swan Clerk
of Knox County Court

State of Tennessee
Knox County         

 I George M. White chairman  of the County Court of Knox County do hereby certify that
Moses M Swan who has made the above certificate is and was at the time of making the same Clerk of our said County Court duly Elected and Qualified as such and that said
certificate is in due form of Law and sealed with our County Seal
Given under my hand and seal at office in Knoxville this 5th day of May 1841
Geo M. White
Chairman of of the County Court
of Knox County

[seal]
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State of Tennessee
Knox County

I Moses M Swan clerk of the county court of Knox County
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Pulaski
16 July

Honble. Secretary of War of
the United States
\Washington City

Mail

Free
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State of Tennessee

To the Honble. the Secretary of the department 
of War of the United States of America

I Alfred M. Harris one of the Circuit Judges in & for the State of Tennessee aforesaid do
hereby certify that Richard Walker who hath petitioned his government for a pension, under an act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and whose said petition is herewith enclosed is in indigent circumstances; and
stand in need of assistance from his country for a support. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 7th July
1819
Alfred M Harris 
Judge of the 6th
Judicial Circuit of the
State of Tennessee

[seal]
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Mr. James Billington
Marshall County
Tennessee
Chappel [sic] Hill

[postmark illegible]
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State of Tennessee
Knox County
This day personally appeared John Grason [Grayson] before us Samuel Dickey and Shedrick Callaway two of the acting Justices of said County and made oath that the circumstances which accured [sic] that I recollect the marriage of Richard Walker and Anson Swearinggin that I saw him married in the fall of seventeen hundred and ninety and my Eldest Daughter was born in May the fifteenth seventeen hundred and ninety one the Spring after Richard Walker and Anson Swearinggin was married the age of my Daughter on Record now in my posession [sic] August the 16th 1841
[signature] John Grayson
Sworn to and subscribed
before us
Samuel Dickey
S. Callaway
two of the acting Justices
for said County
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State of Tennessee
Knox County

I Moses M Swan clerk of the County Court of Knox County do hereby certify that Samuel Dickey and Shedrick Callaway whose signature appears to the within Deposition or affidavit sworn to & subscribed by John Grason [Grayson] on the 16th day of August 1841
was [sic] at the date of said Deposition and now is [sic] acting Justices of the peace in and for said County Commissioned and duly qualified as such and that full faith and credit is due to all the official acts as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Knoxville this 18th day of August 1846
Moses M. Swan clk

State of Tennessee
Know County I Geo M White Chairman of the County Court of Knox County do hereby certify, that Moses M Swan whose Signature appears to the above certificate was at the time of signing the same and now is Clerk
of the County Court of said County, and that
full faith and credit is due to his official acts as such
Given under my hand and seal
August 18th 1841. 
Geo M White [seal]
Chairman of the
County Court of
Knox County
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183

James Billington Esqr
Chappel [sic]  Hill Post office
Marshal [sic] County
Tennessee

[postmark]
KNOXVILLE
TENN
NOV 28
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State of Tennessee
Knox County

Before me S. Caloway [Callaway] Justice of the peace for the County of Knox aforesaid this day personly [sic] appear ed John Grayson
who after being duly sworn saith in explanation of a former deposition made in the case of Anson Walker that the age of his oldest daughter is recorded in his testament
She was born Nancey Grayson in the year 1791 and 15th day of May of that year the record of the above age was made by my brother Joseph Grayson at my request to the best of my knowledge and further this deponent saith not
[signature] John Gryson

Subscribed and sworn
to before me this 22nd
day of November 1841
and I do certify that
I have compard [compared] the
original record with
the above authenticated
copy and find it
the same correct
S Calloway [seal]
Justice of the peace
for Knox County
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State of Tennessee
Knox County 

I Moses M Swan Clerk of the County Court of Knox County do hereby certify that S Calloway whose signature appears to the within
affidavit subscribed by John Grayson was at the date thereof and now is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Know Commissioned and duly Qualified as such and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal of
office at office in Knoxville this 22nd
day of November 1841
Moses M Swan clerk

State of Tennessee
Knox County

I Geo M White Chairman of the County Court of Knox County, do hereby certify that Moses M Swan whose name appears to the above certificate was at the time of signing the same, and now is clerk of the County Court of said County and that full faith and credit are due his official acts as such
Given under my hand and seal November
22d 1841 -
Geo M White [seal]
Chairman of the
County Court
of Knox County
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State of Tennessee
Knox County

I Moses M Swan Clerk of the County Court of Knox County do hereby certify that Shedrick Calloway whose signature appears to the within affidavit sworn to and
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Walker 
affidavit
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County 
On this 9th day of June 1826, before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Richard Walker who on his oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt John Belfield, in
the Regiment commanded by Col Theodorick
Bland; but his capt was promote to a majority during the term of service of this affiant, whereupon William Green became Capt of the same company commanded by said Belfield under whom this affiant also served. Also during the term of service of this affiant as aforesaid said Col Theodorick Bland resigned & was succeeded by Col White under whom this affiant also served in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war. That from a letter which he has this day seen, dated War Department, pension office May 11th 1826 Signed J L  Edwards & directed to S R Rucker at Murfreesboro, Ten. He is informed that an original pension certificate was issued
for him & sent to Alfred M Harris Esq. at Pulaski Tennessee on the 2nd of October 1819 & that his name was placed on the pension roll of West Tennessee that he has never received said certificate of said Harris or of any other person whatsoever, nor has he been informed, nor does he know, where the same can be found but believes it was
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been lost mislaid or destroyed; so that he
cannot have the benefit of it-- Nor has he drawn any money as a pensioner
Richard Walker
X
his mark

Sworn & subscribed 
before me the day
and year aforesaid,
J Atkinson JP

State of Tennessee
Bedford County
On this 9th day of June 1826 came before me an acting Justice of the peace for the County of Bedford John Wortham & made oath that he well knows Richard Walker a soldier of the Revolution, who signed the foregoing affidavit that he is the same person described therein
& the same person who got Samuel R Rucker, to draw a declaration for his pension & to attend to said business for him-
[signature] J Wortham

Sworn to & subscribed
before me this date above
& I do certify that the
affiant is a person of
undoubted veracity
J Atkinson JP
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State of Tennessee
I James McKisick Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions of the County of Bedford in the State aforesaid do hereby Certify that John Atkinson before whom John Wortham took & subscribed the foregoing oath is now & was at the time of Administering said Oath an acting Justice of the peace in & for the County of
Bedford duly Commissioned & that full faith & credit and ought to be given to his official acts as such-

In Witness whereof I
have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal
of the Court at
Office in Shelbyville
this 9th day of
June 1826
[signature] Jas. McKisick

State of Tennessee
I M D Mitchell presiding Justice of the Court
of pleas & quarter Sessions for the County of Bedford and state aforesaid do certify that Jas McKisick whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is Clerk of the aforesaid Court That our faith & credit ought to be given to his signature as such and that his attestation is in due form of law
Given under my hand & seal this 9th June 1826
M D Mitchell J. P. [seal]
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Admitted

Smith & Kendrick
Nashville
[illegible]
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress, of 2nd February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution.
STATE OF Tennessee
Marshall COUNTY SS.
On this 18 day of May 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the State and County aforesaid, Anson Walker a resident of the State of Tennessee & in the County of Marshall aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress. passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War:- That she is the widow of Richard Walker, who was a Private of Cavalry in the [blank] Regiment, commanded by Col. Spencer Bluford and that she drew a pension of One Hundred dollars per annum, under the Act of 17th June, 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Anson Walker
X
her mark
LS.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me,
George R May JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Attest, John Billington

STATE OF Tennessee Marshall COUNTY: -- Sct.
I, George R May a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Anson Walker the above declarant, is personally known to me. Given under my hand, this 18 day of May 1848
G R May
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

STATE OF Tennessee
Marshall Co.
I, John Elliott Clerk of the County Court of said
Marshall County, hereby certify that George R. May whose name appears signed to the foregoing affidavit and certificate is, and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such according to law, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at office, in the Town of Lewisburg
this 2nd day of June 1848
John Elliott  [illegible]
Clerk of Marshall County Court
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WILLIS L. LYONS
JUDGE

CELESTIA PARSHALL
REGISTER

Probate Court
LIVINGSTON COUNTY
HOWELL, MICH.
March 28, 1930.

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs: -

The attached is a copy of letter from your office to Mrs. Glenn Beurmann of this City. She has turned the matter over to me and asked that I write you for the history of said soldier, Richard Walker.
If there is any expense in connection with this,
kindly let me know and I will remit promptly.
Very truly yours,
[SIGNATURE] Celestia Parshall
Register of Probate.

[stamp]
U. S. 
PENSION OFFICE
MAR 31 1930
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M M H F

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.

Copy

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington

December 31, 1924.

Mrs. Glen Beurmann,
Howell, Michigan

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau there appears one Richard Walker born about 1755 who served with the Virginia Troops in the
War of the Revolution. If you desire the history of said soldier please so state and the same will be furnished you.
The above named records fail to afford any information in regard to Henson Walker,

Respectfully,

Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.
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Affidavit of
A. W. Harris Esq.
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State of Tennessee
Giles County - Sct
on this 8th day of June 1826, before me the
subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Richard Walker who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt John Belfield, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Theodric [Theodorick] Bland but his captain was promoted to a majority during the term of service of this affiant, whereupon William Gunn became captain of the same company commanded by sd Belfield, under whom this affiant also served - also during the term of service of this affiant as aforesaid Col Theadrick [Theodorick] Bland resigned, a W. White whose christian name is not recollected, became Col. in his stead & place, under whom this affiant also served in the service of the
United States. That from a letter which he has
received dated War Department Pension office May 11th 1826, & signed, J.L. Edwards, is informed that his name is inscribed on the Pension list - That he never has received
his pension certificate, or drawn any money
as a pensioner, nor does he know when
his pension certificate is
Richard Walker
X
his mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th 
day of June 1826

E. D. Jones
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State of Tennessee
Giles County.
I German Lester Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Session holden for the County aforesaid do certify that Edward D. Jones, whose name is signed to the foregoing
Certificates is an acting Justice 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 8th day June 1826

German Lester Clk
[illegible] Tennessee
[illegible] County
I Edward D. Jones Presiding Justice of the peace of the Court of pleas and quarter
sessions of the County aforesaid, do certify that German Lester, whose name is signed
to the forgoing certificate as Clerk of the Court
of pleas and quarter sessions of the said
County of Giles, is acting Clerk in and for
the County Court of Pleas and quarter of
the said County of Giles, that the same is in
due form of Law, and that full faith and credit are due to and ought to be given to all his official acts as clerk aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my official name
E. D. Jones P.J.P.
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State of Tennessee
Giles County Sct
Be it remembered that on this 9th day of June 1826, personally appeared before me Edward
D. Jones - an acting Justice of the peace in & for the County & State aforesaid the undersigned Alfred M Harris of said State & County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith, that during the time he occupied a seat upon the Bench as circuit Judge of the State of Tennessee (which was from the year 1817, till the year 1820) [illegible] persons, who claimed a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress passed for the benefit of the officers & Soldiers of the continental line against the common enemy, Great Brittain [sic], during the
revolutionary war applied to him, to prepare their declarations, & other proof that they might have in their power, agreeably to the
form of law. That the number of applications, is not recollected; but this affiant gave all the pension verbiage to the pension, or sent by some person who had been sent by the pension for them, This affiant kept all the papers which has been by him prepared, & sent on to the War Department for pensioners, & return to him from sd Department (except pension certificates) & has them yet. He has
no distinct or any other kind of recollection,
of ever having prepared a declaration for M Richard Walker, but does not doubt, that some
other person may have done so, & the proof of the declaration have been made before this affiant, during the time
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he presided as Judge as aforesd. He has no certificate of Pension, in behalf of Mr Walker in his possession, & if he ever had one (which he does not recollect) he could not have lost it, as he keeps a file of papers, marked Pension declarations Into which he deposits all papers belonging to pensioners, sent to him from the war Department.-- He never was the agent or attorney of Walker, in any the way than as above stated.
[signature] Alfred M Harris
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day
of June 1826 -

[signature] E. D. Jones J. P.