Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11452, William White, S.C.
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SERVICE
S. C
White, William
NUMBER
R. 11452
CONTENTS
Died in 1844
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State of Georgia
Walker County 
On this 19th day of July one thousand Eight Hundred and forty seven personally appeared before the Justices of the Inferior Court (now sitting in the Town of Lafayette) in and for the County aforesaid. Newton White a resident Citizen of said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the amount of Pension which accrued and fell due to William White (his Father) under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. He further Declares that he is a son and heir at Law of the said William White. Who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and served as herein stated, as he has heard him state in his lifetime.
That he entered the service of the United States in Union District South Carolina, under Captain Joseph McJunkin in October Seventeen Hundred and seventy nine, in Colonel Brandon's Regiment and was marched to the Ten Mile Branch where the army lay as a reinforcement to guard the City of Charleston until in March following when he returned home to Union District again. Immediately after which he entered the service again as a Volunteer under Captain Auterson he thinks, was his next Captain, again in Col Brandon's Regiment & he continued to serve under him until the Captain Auterson was promoted to Major when Captain Avery took the command as Captain under whom he continued to serve until the spring
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of Seventeen Eighty one as he thinks when he entered the service either by enlisting or volunteering he cannot state which under Captain Palmer of Captain Jolly he does not recollect which as a Dragoon, under whom he served until after the Battle at the Utaw Springs sometime after which he thinks he was under Captain Hughs, still as a dragoon, the periods of service he rendered under these men he cannot give though he served under them all, he thinks the most of his service under Capt. Hughs was against the Indians &  Tories after the surrender of Cornwallis, all of his service was rendered in Col Brandon's Regiment, he has heard his Father speak of Receiving Discharge from the service, but what has become of them he cannot state, he was in the Battle at the Utaw [Eutaw] Springs, and he think some other Battles though he does not recollect them distinct enough to say what ones they were, he also received a wound from the stroke of a sword on the head, which was plain to be seen and felt up to the time of his death. He further declares that his father the said William White Departed this life in Walker County Georgia on the 7th day of October One thousand Eight Hundred and forty four (1844) leaving surviving him no widow, but the
present applicant Together with six other lawful Legatees (namely) Thomas White Mary who intermarried with Samuel Dobbs, Elizabeth who intermarried with Supre Anderson Ann who intermarried with Thomas Anderson, William White and Elijah White, the only legal representatives and heirs at Law of the said William White decst. all of whom continue to
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survive, And this Declarant further states that the reason the said William White his Father did not apply for a pension in his lifetime, was that many years before his Death he measureably and allmost entirely lost his remaining Faculties, thought by his friends to be occasioned by the wound on his head, his Incompetency however rendered him incapable of making a correct statement of his services, or of being sworn to any fact for about Fifteen years before his death, and we did not know that a Declaration could be filed by any one else for him, nor did declarant even know after his death that his legatees were entitled to any thing under the Pension Laws until very recently.
Newton White his mark X
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court the day & date above
Jesse P Freeman Clerk, I.C.
By M S Wright D.C. I.C
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State of Georgia
Walker County
Inferior Court of Law
July Term A.D. 1847
I Jesse P Freeman Clerk of the Inferior Court for the County of Walker in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said cort in the mater of the application of Newton White for the amount of pension which accrued and fell due to William White his Father as therein stated. And I do further certify that it has been shown in evidence to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said William White Departed this life in Walker County Georgia on the 7th day of October 1844, leaving no widow surviving him, but that he did leave surviving him the present applicant and six other Lawful Legatees all of which continue to survive, who are the only representatives and heirs at Law of the said William White, Names, Thomas White, Mary who intermarried Samuel Dobbs, Elizabeth who married Supre Anderson, Ann who intermarried with Thomas Anderson, William White and Elijah White.
I further certify that the foregoing Declaration was red in open Court in the preasence of Newton White the Declarant and by him understood before sworn to and subscribed all of which the Court orders the Clerk to Certify to the war Depart. all of which is hereby certified.
In Testimony whereof I the said Clerk have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at my Office in Lafayette this 19th day of July A.D. 1847. 
Jesse P Freeman Clk
By M S Wright DC IC
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State of South Carolina 
Pickens District
On this twenty seventh day of July One thousand Eight Hundred and forty seven personally appeared before me John Nance an acting Magistrate in and for the District aforesaid William Grant aged Eighty five years a citizen of Anderson District South Carolina & a Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of One Hundred and Seventy Dollars per annum, and after being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath Declare that he was well acquainted with William White, the Father of Newton White who is now an applicant for a Pension in Rite of his said Father William White under act of Congress passed 7 June 1832. He states that in October Seventeen Hundred and seventy nine he and the said William White was Drafted in Union District So. Carolina and about the first of November following, they were placed under Captain Joseph McJunkin in Col Brandon's Regiment & took up the line of March & was marched to the ten mile Branch near Charleston and there lay as a reinforcement to guard the City of Charleston until the Tenth of March 1780 at which time they were dismissed and returned home, and same short time after they got home to Union the said William White again entered the service under Capt Auterson & continued under him until he Capt.
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Auterson was promoted to Major and Capt Avery took command of Capt Autersons Company & White continued some time under him he cannot state how long though he is quite sure that White must have served under these two Captain Auterson & Avery at least twelve months this service was also in Col Brandon's Regiment affiant did not serve under Auterson & Avery with White though he was in the service in the same Regiment all the time. 
He further states that he remained acquainted with the said White from the Revolution up to about the year 1842, when he removed from Anderson District So Carolina to Walker County Georgia where he died some three years ago as he has understood.
He further states that for some ten years or more before he removed from Anderson District, he seemed to have measurably lost his Reason.
William Grant his mark X
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day & date above.
John Nance Mag PD
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State of Georgia
Walker County  
This day personally appeared before me Amos Griffin a Justice of the peace in and for the state & County aforesaid Isaac White a citizen of said County aged Eighty two years, and a highly creditable witness and one whose statements are entitled to full faith and credit, and after after being duly sworn as the Law directs, declares upon his oath that he is a Brother to William White who died in this County on the 7th day of October 1844, and who was the father of Newton White of this County and who is an applicant for the amount of Pension which accrued to the said William for services rendered in the war of the Revolution.
He further states that his Brother the said William White Deceased, entered the war of the Revolution in Union District South Carolina at a tolerable early period of the war and was in the service nearly all the time until the close of the same, he knows he served under Col David Hopkins & Col Brandon and Genl Pickens, he also States that the said William was married to Elizabeth Nixon in and during the time of the Revolutionary War by whom he had one son & three daughters, Namely Thomas White, Anna who married Thomas Anderson, Mary, who Married Samuel Dobbs, but is now a widow and Elizabeth who married Supre Anderson, but Elizabeth is now dead the other three are still surviving. He further states that William's Wife the said Elizabeth, died about sixty years ago in Union District So Ca, and about six or eight months thereafter he the said William Married Julia Pucket by whom he had three sons namely William White Newton White the present applicant an Elijah White all of whom are now surviving except Elijah who is reasently dead. He states that he was not present at neither of the said Marriages, though he knows they both did take place, that he was living with the said
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William his Brother at the time of his last Marriage & aided in keeping house for him while he went off to get Married which was some distance from home, and he continued to live with him for a year afterwards, he was also present at the death of his first wife Elizabeth & knows she was his lawful wife he further states that the said Julia his second wife continued to live with the said William as his lawful wife until her death which took place in the latter part of the year 1820, and that the above named Children are all the Children and the only children ever born in Wedlock to the said William White Decst. and that they are all living except as above stated, also that the said William departed this life on the seventh day of October 1844, leaving no widow surviving him,
Isaac White his mark X 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of March 1854.
Amos Griffin J.P.
Amos Griffin Magistrate as aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit was read aloud to Isaac White the maker thereof and by him understood before sworn to and subscribed and that he is strictly a man of truth and veracity.
Amos Griffin J.P.
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State of Georgia
Walker County 
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the State & County aforesaid John White a citizen of said County & a highly respectable witness and after being duly sworn as the Law directs states upon his Oath that he is now about fifty three years old and from his earliest Recollection he has been intimately and familiarly acquainted with his Uncle William White who died in this County on the 7th day of October 1844, and also with every member of his family, he knows that his Uncle the said William was twice married according to what he has always understood from his family, and that Thomas White, Anna who married Thomas Anderson, Mary who married Samuel Dobbs and Elizabeth who married Supre Anderson are his children produced by his first marriage, and that William White & Newton White, who is now an applicant for the amount of Pension which accrued to his father the said William for his Revolutionary services and Elijah White were his children produced by his second marriage and that all of the said children are living except Elizabeth & Elijah both of whom are dead and that they are all of the children ever raised by the said William White or born in Wedlock to him.
He further states that his Aunt Julia his Uncle William's last wife died long before he did and that he never afterwards married, and therefore died without Leaving any widow to survive him 
John White
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th Day of
March 1854
Amos Griffin J.P.
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State of Georgia
Walker County 
This day personally appeared Newton White a citizen of said County who is now an applicant for a Pension on account of the Revolutionary services of his Father William White Decst. before me the Undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County and declares upon oath that there is no Record proof of the Marriage of his Father the said William White to either his first or second wife nor of the ages of his children, to the best of his knowledge, as both Marriages took place in South Carolina where there is no Record of Marriages kept or required to be kept by the Law and his Father being no schollar he has no family Record, and the best evidence which he can procure is the foregoing affidavits, which is substantially true in every Respect.
His
Newton White
mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 6th Day of March 1854
Amos Griffin

State of Georgia 
Walker County  
 I John Dickson Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid the same being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Amos Griffin before whom the foregoing assignment was executed was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County and State duly commissioned and qualified and authorized by law to administer oathes and acknowledgments and that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such and that his signatures to the above and foregoing are Genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this 7th March 1854.
John Dickson
Clerk
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35 Congress [illegible]
Petition of Charles F. Bruckner Admin. of Wm White, Decd. later of Georgia for arrears of pension due under Act of 7th June 1832.
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1857, Jany. 6. Referred to the Com: on Revy. Claims.
1857, Jany. 9. Com: discharged & refered to the Com: on Pensions.
1857, Feb: 27. Report to be discharged submitted, considered & agreed to.
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1857 Dec. 21, Referred to the Com: on Pensions
1858 April 7, Discharged & referred to the Secy. of the Interior.

agreed

Mr. Iverson
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State of Georgia
Walker County
To the Honorable the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States. 
The Petition of C. F. Bruckner, Administrator of William White Deced. Late of the County of Walker in the State of Georgia, Represents to your Honor, that his said Intestate was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and that he rendered a large amount of service therein for which, under the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832, he was entitled to a Pension. And on the 7th day of October One thousand Eight Hundred and forty four, he departed this life in the said County of Walker without ever having applied for a Pension, He would however have done so but for the fact that for some fifteen years before his death he was measurably deprived of his Reason.
But upon the 19th Day of July 1847. Newton White one of the sons of the said Deceased, made a declaration before the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County, in which he applied for the amount of Pension which had accrued to his Father the said William White under the provisions of the before recited Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. Which application was filed before the Commissioner of Pensions in Washington City, and in support of the said claim he filed a certified Copy of the Indents Issued under the authority of the State of South Carolina to him the said William White for services in the said War, that
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being the State in which he served) and in further support of the Claim he filed the affidavits of Isaac White John White and William Grant, the two latter of whom served a part of the time in the said war, with the said deceased, and your Petitioner thinks fully Identified the said Deceased, with that portion of the Record which constituted the evidence of his service. 
And on the 3d Day of Jany 1854, The Commissioner of Pensions Agreed, in a report made in the case, to allow the claim, upon proof of the number & names of the surviving children of the decsd. their Legitimacy, and the granting of Letters of Administration on the Estate of the said William Decsd. all of which was done, and the claim was still suspended, upon frivolous and unmeritorious objections, as your Petitioner verily believes. -- Your Petitioner further represents that the Certificate of the Comptroller General of So. Carolina before alluded to, shows that an [Indent] Issued to the said William White No 24.33 Book K. for 34 £ 18 S. 6 3/4 D. Specie for 259 Days duty as a Horseman and 63 days duty as a Private of [Fort] under Captains, Palmer, Jolly, and Hughes in Brandon's Regiment. Isaac & John White, two of the Witnesses before alluded to, prove positively that the said Decsd served under those Captains and in Col Brandon's Regiment. John White states he served one tour with the said Decsd under Captain Hughes, thereby Identifying the said Decsd with the payment
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of 34 £. 18. S. 6 3/4 D. Sterling as shown by the Comptroller Generals Certificate, the said Certificate also shows two other Indents which issued to the said William White One for 2. £. 8. S. 6 3/4 D. Lib H. No 31.90, and the other for the sum of 13. £. 11. S. 5. D. No 31.91, same Lib, both of those payments also issued for service in Col. Brandon's Regiment. The affidavit of the before named William Grant shows that the said Deceased served under Captain McJunkin, Auterson, and Avery, in Col. Brandon's Regiment thereby clearly identifying the said Deceased with those two payments, last above named.
From those facts, which your Petitioner regard most solomly, as being clear and conclusive, the said deceased was under the provisions of the before recited Act of Congress, entitled to the sum of Seventy Six Dollars Eighty six Cents per annum from the 4th of March 1831, up to the 7th Day of October 1844, the day of his death, and not having received it his Living Children (to [wit]) Newton White, Ann Anderson, Mary Dobbs & William White, they being the only living Children of the said Deceased are entitled to the same.
Your Petitioner therefore prays your honorable Body to pass an act, authorizing and Requiring the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, to Issue to your Petitioner as administrator of the said William White a Pension Certificate for the aforesaid sum of $76.86/100 per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 and
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to continue to the 7th day of October 1844, the day of the death of the said deceased, to be distributed equally amongst the said Surviving Children of the said William White Decsd., and your Petitioner as is duty bound will ever pray
Charles F. Bruckner
admn of Wm White decsd
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I no that my redemer lives 168
[ill] 
Lamb of God -- 53
O thou man of [ill]
Remember me 
The praying spirit
Breath -- 65
O thou [ill] 
O thou lamb of god [ill]
[ill] of [ill] 
[ill] God and [ill]
[ill]
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37.639
William White decd
Georgia
Elisha King Dec 7 1848
Smith & Jones Feby 24 1853
Evans & Fant 16 Dec 1853
Same 3 Jany 1854 same
Mch 27 1854 - same Apr 17 1854
Same Jany 23 1855 - Same
Apl 2 1855 - F.F.C. Triplett Jul 14/56
Secy Interior Sep 19 1856

June 7 1832
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Washington City
17th Feby 1856

[illegible] J Minot
Com of Pensions
Sir,
Will you inform me what is the condition of the claim of the heirs of William White of Georgia for a pension, under the act of Congress of 7th June 1832, Mr Elisha King the attorney of the claimants, writes me that he forwarded to Capt. F.F.C. Tripplett on the 8th day of Nov. last. A fac simile of the signature of Wm White as furnished to him by the Comptroller] Genl of South Carolina also Mr White's actual signature requesting Capt Tripplett to file the
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same in the case and to procure the allowance of the sum if he could, since which time he has been unable to hear from him although he has written to him frequently.
You will please allow one whether the above proof has been filed with the other
papers in the Pension office and what disposition has been made of the case,
and much oblige
yours best
Jno H Lumpkin
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Letters [to]
Immaterial
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William White, decd.
Georgia
Suspended Act of June 1832.
Additional evidence
filed, March 22 1854.

Evans & Fant
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William White decd
Georgia
Supsd Act June 7 1833

H. G. [Fant]
Washington City.
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37639
William White decd

Georgia-
Elisha King Decr 7 1848-
Smith G Jones Feby 24 1853-
Evans G Fant 16th Decr 1853-
Same 3rd Jny 1854- Same Mch
27 1854- Same Apl 17 1854-
Same Jany [crossed out "24 1854] 23 1855- Same
Apl 21 1855 - F.F.C. Triplett
July 14 1856- Secy Interior Sep
19 1856- Elisha King Nov
26 1856-(Decision affirmed)-
Hon. G.W. Jones Jany 16 1857-
T. Lumpkin May 8, 1857-
Hon A. Dickens May 18, 1857-
Thos Lumpkin May 23, 1857-
Hon. Geg W. Jones Jan 23/58
[illegible] [7 1857]
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(3-223.)
No. 11.452 Revy
......, Ex'r.

OLD WAR INVALID
William White of Geo.
O. Pric, Colo Brandon .S.C
.....REJECTED.....
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charged: ........., 18 .
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Adairsville Ga 7th Novr 1855.
Capt F.F.C. Triplett
Dear Sir
Your favour of 27th [ill] is before me. I am confident that the application of the heirs of William White for a Pension under act of 7th June 1832 should be allowed upon the proof already on file, but as the decision of the late Commissioner precludes its examination unless additional evidence is filed, I herewith send you additional proof which is as you will see a Fac Simile of the Soldiers Signature, for the Receipt of his Indents to be compared with his signature to an old Instrument made upwards of 40 years after the date of his receipt for Indents. Those signature bear as strong similitude to each other as could be expected, to exist between signatures made by the same person at periods upwards of 40 years apart, One being made when the maker of the signature is young and the other when he is old and of palsied, heavy handed &c.
I have withheld those signature as the last Proof could be offered in this case, knowing also that if there should once be a decision of the Office that there was no Similitude between the signatures, it would be very hard to [ill] the case, and as you have much experience in the examination of Pension Claims I have thought proper to submit this proof to you first that you may file it or withhold it as you may think best. If you think it proper file
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it, if not then return it to me with your vice on the subject. -- That the proof in this case is very complicated and difficult to settle upon is at once conceded, there is no less than five different Indents issued according to the Comptroller Certificate to the name of William White, and I do not think more than two or three of them could have issued to my claimant, there was evidently two and perhaps three persons of the name of William White in the So. Carolina Service. That I may, as I hope, aid you in the Investigation of the case, I here give you a synopsis of the Record and Parroll proof both in the case, and how they may be harmonised. -- There is but three of the payments of Indents out of the 5 that shows the signature of the soldier, those three you have in the certificate of the Comptr. herewith sent, the first of which I do not think is ours, then there is two signatures given one to the account the other to his Receipt, the second or as the Compt. has it numbered 3d Indent No 138, Book S. I think is the signature of our claimant as made with an extreme bad pen, as the W. bears some similitude to those made by him, the next his signature to his order in favor of Samuel Smith for Indent No 2433, is evidently the Signature of our Claimant made with a good pen, his W are precisely similar in form, except some dashes which will naturally be left off when old age has stiffened and debilitated the nerves. This view of the subject is sustained by the Parroll proof, first the son of the Soldier who files the Declaration: Recollects distinctly that the Father, served in Col. Brandon's Regiment that he served under Captains McJunkin, Palmer, Jolly and Hughs, he
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says he thinks the service under Captain Hughs was against the Indians and Torries after the surrender of Cornwallis, and that his service under them was horse service, in this Statement the Record bears him out as you will see from a differance to the account upon which Indent No 2433, Issued, by this Account you will perceive that part of the service indeed nearly all the services under Capts Jolly, Palmer & Hughs was Horse service and that part which was under Hughs was against the Indians and torries, as it was after the surrender of Cornwallis precisely as the applicant states, & is all in Brandon's Regt.
Witness Wm Grant States that in Octr 1779, White & himself was drafted & entered service under Capt Mc Junkin served until 10th March 1780, some short time after which White again entered service under Capt Auterson, who was promoted & Avery took his command, under whom White Remained he thinks as much as twelve months, witness did not serve with White, but was in service in the same Regt. In this last service it seems the Witness was mistaken as the Record shows that White entered the service under Capt Jolly on 3d Feby 1779. was under him until 9th May 1779. Then in Oct following he no doubt did as Grant States enter the service with him under Capt McJunkin & served under him until 10th of March 1780, he may then and in all probability did enter the service again under Capt Auterson, as witness Grant States, but could not have served under him & his successor, Capt Avery more then thirty or forty days for the record shows that he, White entered the service again under
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Captain Jolly on the 7th of May 1780, and in this Grant might easily be mistaken, as he did not serve himself under Capt Auterson & Avery, with White, he states he did not but that he served in the same Regiment that in Col Brandon's Regt. and as Capt Jolly Company served in Col Brandon's Regt also Grant could easily be mistaken as to what company White was serving in, and suppose as he entered the service under Auterson he remained under him & his successor, though he had after a time [ill] into the Company of his old Captain Jolly, this is the more probable from the fact that the service seems not to have been by stated periods, but as necessity required to suppress Tory & Indian hostilities this seem to be the case from the Record of White's service under Capt Jolly, Palmer, & Hughs now under consideration.

John White another Witness States that he served one tour under Captain Hughs with William White the claimants Father and that he knows he served also under Capt Jolly, Palmer, McJunkin, & Auterson, this proof certainly identifies the claimants Father with Indent No 2433, Book H, also with either Indent No. 138 Book S or Indent No. 3191, Book H, and indeed I think both of those later Indents issued to our claimant and the proof will sustain that view of the subject, all the witnesses are very clear in saying the service was all in Colonel Brandon's Regiment as the Record shows, and must therefore Identify our Claimant with the Indent No 2433 as John White proves expressly that Wm White served under those officers named in the account upon which that Indent Issued. The witnesses also prove other they prove service under Capt McJunkin & Auterson for
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which he must have recd an Indent, and I should say it was Indent No 3191, Lib. H. and he must also have Recd Indent No 138. Lib S. for services Rendered under other officers not named I mean Captains not named by the Witnesses which was rendered between the periods of his service under Capts Jolly, Palmer, & Hughs after the Reduction of Charleston. The account of service under those Offices as given in the Compt Certificate shows, that, White, was not in service under them from 25th June 1781, to the 7th of Octr 1781, which time must have been spent under other Officers also from 18th Decr 1781. to 10th Decr 1782, must have been spent in the same way as the Witnesses all state he was in the service nearly all the time of the War. 
I herewith send you a copy of the Indents I claim for our claimant as follows,
No 2433
Book H
Issued the 18th of April 1786, to Mr William White for thirty four pounds Eighteen Shillings and sixpence 3/4 Sterling for duty done in Capts Palmer, Hughs and Jolly's Companies Brandon's Regiment as per
account audited
No 104, Principal £34, 18 - 6 3/4, Anl. Interest £2.8.11.
No. 104, No 2433, Book H. 18th April 1786, William White for 259 days duty, a horseman and 63 days duty as a private of foot from the 3rd of Feby 1779, to the 23d Jany 1783, alternately in the Companies of Capts Palmer Jolly & Hughs, in Col Brandon's Regiment
Charged [Currency] £290.10
Deduct less 46.00
Currency Sterling 244.10
£34, 18, 6 3/4
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The State of South Carolina To William White [ill],
To 25 Days duty as horse from the 3d to the 27th Febr 1779,
Inclusive per Pay Bill of Capt Palmer and Cert [ill] Col Thomas Brandon at 20/£25 " " To 72 days duty as Horseman from the 27th of Febr to the 9th of May 1779, Inclusive per Pay Bill of [ill and Cer. of ill.]
To 72 days duty as Horseman from the 7th May 1780 to
25th June 1781, Inclusive per Pay Bill of Capt Jolly Certf of [ill].
To 63 days duty as a private of foot from 7th Oct to 18th Decr 1781, per pay bill of Capt Hughs Cert of [ill].
To 45 days duty as a Horseman from the 10th Decr 1782 to the 23rd of Jany 1783, per pay bill of Capt Joseph Hughs [Cert ill] Col Brandon.
Lib H. 
No 31.91
Issued 3rd July 1786. William White for [ill] for Militia duty in Brandon's Regiment per account audited Principal $13, 11.5, interest 18.11
State of So. Ca. To William White
For Militia duty in Brandon's Regiment since the fall of Charleston per Auterson's return, avail [currency] £95, Sterling £13, 11-5
Indent Book T. 
No 138.
Issued 7th June 1785 to Mr. William White for £8, 14 3 1/4, Stg for duty as a Private since the Reduction of Charleston, [ill]
You will find these Indents on file with two other Indents and this Accounts of them all, I give you those that you may have them to themselves for examination
I hope you will be able to get along with this case and
that I shall hear from you soon
Capt. F.F.C. Triplett
Washington City
I am Very Respectfully
Elisha King
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State of Georgia
Murray County
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Magistrate in and for the County and State aforesaid John Hames a Respectable & aged Citizen of this County aged One Hundred and six or seven years and A Pensioner of the United States at the Rate of forty Dollars per annum under act of 7th June 1832, and after being duly sworn as the Law directs declares upon his oath that he was intimately and personally acquainted with William White the Father of Newton White of Walker County of this State, and who is an applicant for a Pension on account of his Fathers Service in the War of the Revolution, he further states that the said William White served in the said War in Col. Brandon's Regiment the affiant served with the said White under Captain Jolly as a horseman one or two tours also he served with him one tour Under Captain Palmer but from old age and Bodily infirmity and Consequent loss of Memory he cannot describe the precise date & duration of those tours of service though he knows it was in the heat of the War and in the two or three last years of the war he also States that the said White served under Capt Hughs though he does not recollect to have served
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with him under Capt Hughs. But he served in the same Regiment which was Col Brandon's Regiment and saw him after in the service he further states that the said William White rendered other service in said Regiment which he cannot describe, he Recollects well that he the said White was wounded by a cut of a sword on the side of the head, he also States that the said White and himself both settled in Union district South Carolina after the war where they lived both in time of the war and afterwards, that they often met after the close of the war and conversed together upon the scenes which transpired and which they witnessed together in the war, they were acquainted for many years thereafter, and he further states that the said White in his old age became somewhat delirious and to a great extent lost his Reason, he also States that if there was any other William White who served in Col Brandon's Regiment he did not know him or now does not Recollect him.
His
John Homes
mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day
of April 1857.
C B Tucker
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I, Churchill B. Tucker a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Murray in the State of Georgia do hereby certify that John Hames who has this day sworn to and subscribed the annexed Affidavit before me is and has been personally and intimately known to me for the last twelve years, and that he is a man of extraordinary Physical & Mental Powers, and of extraordinary
Memory and he is a man of great caution in his statements & of Much Truth and veracity and a man of Great Piety. I further certify that the foregoing affidavit was read aloud in his presence and by him understood before Sworn to & subscribed, and that he seemed to clear and distinct in his recollection of the facts therein set fourth. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & private seal this 11th day of April 1857. C B Tucker J P
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Georgia
Murray County
I Ralph Ellison clerk of the Supreme court as well for said county do hereby certify that C B Tucker Esqr whoes genuine signature appears to the above and foregoing affidavit & certificate is now and has at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county was commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is due all his official acts as such. I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the aged Mr John Hames who has made the said affidavit and that the facts set forth in the certificate of the said Magistrate [illegible] the reputation of the said Hames are true to the best of my knowledge & belief. Sworn under my name and seal of office at office in Spring Place this the 11th day of April 1837
Ralph Ellison C.S.C.
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Adairsville Ga 8th Decr. 1857
Thomas Lumpkin Esq
Dear Sir
You will reccollect that I inclosed to you on the 13th of April last the affidavit of old Mr. John Hames (a soldier of the Revolution) in support of the claim of the Heirs of William White for a Pension under act of 7th June 1832. Which Affidavit I think must be conclusive in this claim On the reception of Hames Affidavit you informed me that the Secretary of the senate would not give up the papers in the case as we had petitioned Congress for the allowance of the claim, and we could only get the case again before the Commissioner of Pensions, by an order of the Senate giving leave to withdraw the papers &c. Were it not for the late decision of the Attorney Genl. I should think it advisable to take the case back to the Commissioner of Pensions, as the additional evidence furnished by the affidavit of old Mr. Hames would certainly pass the claim, it corroborates the Record proof so perfectly. I think it could not fail. But as it may be some time yet before Congress removes the obstacle placed in the way of the allowance of those claims, it may be best to file the additional proof before Congress, if it can in any way strengthen the claim before that body, this whole matter I Trust however to your own discretion.
I find in drawing up the petition to Congress that I committed quite a mistake as to the amount due the Heirs of Wm White, I ask an allowance of only $76.86. whereas we are entitled to about $92 per annum, as the Reccord
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Proof on file shows that there was fifteen months and Twenty three days of the service of Wm White rendered as Horseman for which he was entitled to $8.33 ⅓ cts per month and under the Law it is proper to give him half that amount as pension which would be $65.27 cts. Then add 8 months & 7 days which makes out two years service at the pay of a Private of foot and you have the sum of $92 which is the amount we are entitled to per Annum in this case. Please have this mistake corrected and inform me what course you think will be best to take in this case.
I hope the claim of Mrs Rebecca Melton of this State which you have in charge for Back pay under the act of 3d Feby 1853, has been passed upon by the United States Court of Claims, and that an allowance for its payment will be made at an early day by Congress.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Elisha King

Thomas Lumpkin Esq
Washington City
DC

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Addl evidence in the case of Wm White decd.
Georgia, Act June '32
presented at the 2nd session of the 34th congress
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Washington, D.C.
April 16th, 1857.
Geo. C. Whiting, Esq.
Commr. of Pensions,
Sir,
I herewith enclose add'l evidence, (which I trust may prove satisfactory) in the case of Wm White decd. of Georgia, Act 7th June 1832. His papers were withdrawn from your Office, or copies thereof, and referred to the Senate Committee in Revy. Pensions last session. I desire the same may be returned to your office, and the evidence now presented as to identity may be fully examined.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Th. Lumpkin
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Office Secretary Senate U.S.
May 21, 1857
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 18th inst. requesting the return to your office of the papers in the case of William White deceased of Georgia. 
I have to inform you, that papers presented to the Senate, as in this case, cannot be withdrawn from its files, unless where an act has passed for the relief of the claimant, or where special leave has been obtained for that purpose.
I am Sir,
Your Obdt. Servt.
Asbury Dickins
Secretary of the Senate

Geo. C. Whiting, Esq. Comr. Pensions.
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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
Feb'y 12th, 1837.
Sir:
I have the honor to return the papers in the case of William White deceased, received from you under date of the 11th inst. & to state for the information of your Committee, that this office has no knowledge of "the action in the case on an appeal taken from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions". The appeal appears, from the papers, to have been taken to the Secretary of the Interior & his decision is presumed to be adverse to the claim since no such pensioner has been returned to this Office up to this time.
The papers should be referred to the Department of the Interior or to the Pension Office, from either, the information required may doubtless be obtained.
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[Letter continued from previous page]
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Rob J. Atkinson[?]
Auditor

Hon. Geo. W, Jones
Chairman of Committee on Pensions
U.S. Senate.
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121
Adairsville Ga 22nd Augt 1854
Messrs Evans & Fant.
Gentlemen
I have been unable to procure an autograplin signature of William White Decst. and having failed to do so, I set out to see if I could find old John White his Brother who I have long been informed could prove his services, and I herewith send his affidavit which certainly proves enough to identify William with the Indents Issued in his favour to say nothing of other Testimony which is on file.
In the first place the affidavit of William Grant Establishes 16 months service in Brandons Regiment then the affidavit of Isaac White shows that William entered the service at an early period in the war and was in the service all the time until the close thereof, that he served under Cols. Brandon & Hopkins both, and the inclosed affidavit of John White, corroborates both of the above statements and shows that William entered the service at an early period of the war, and served several Tours before affiant entered the service that he recollects to have served only one Tour with him, that he was well acquainted with Captains McJunkin, Anderson, Avery, Jolly, Palmer & Hughs and knows his brother served under all of them, but from the great lapse of time and the number of Tours of service he cannot describe them seperately, with such accuracy as to be willing to swear to it, though he can with certainty swear that he served under all of those men, and that the
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service was rendered in Col. Brandons Regiment, those three Witnesses concurring in the service rendered in Brandons Regiment clearly entitles us to the following Indents Book X. No. 3191, L13. S11. D5. Book Q. No. 607. L.17. S.2. D[illegible]. Book S. No. 138. L.8. S.14. D 3/4 Book X. No. 2433. L.34. S.18. D 6 3/4. which amounts to about forty months services for a private footman, but there seems to be of this service 229 Days Rendered as a Horseman according to the foregoing latter Indent which is better than 7 months service as a horseman, This is enough without saying any thing of the services which the witnesses prove to have been Rendered under Col. Hopkins, and indeed it may be that some of those small payments above mentioned were for services rendered in Col. Hopkins Regiment though I think it most probable they are all for services Rendered in Brandons Regiment.
I presume you will have no further trouble in this case. Please give it your earliest attention.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Elisha King

Messrs Evans & Fant
Washington City 
DC
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I John Nance Magistrate as before stated do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Grant who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me and that he is a man of truth and veracity. I further certify that the said affidavit was read to him the said William Grant and by him understood before sworn to and subscribed. I also certify that I was well acquainted with William White decd the father of the Dr. Newton White as mentioned in the annexed affidavit for about thirty years before his death and that he was regarded as a faithful soldier in the Revolution by those who knew him and as one who had rendered much service in the Revolution, I also know that some ten or twelve years before his death he lost his reasoning faculties, in a great degree.
John Nance Mag PD

I W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court of Pickens District in the State of South Carolina, do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern that John Nance whose signature appears to the affidavit of William Grant and the above certificate are genuine. he was at that time and is now an acting Magistrate for Pickens District duly appointed Commissioned and qualified
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and all due faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such.
In testimony whereunto I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at
my office at Pickens C.H. this the 31st day of August A.D. 1847.
W. L. Keith
Clerk of the Court of Pickens District So. Ca.
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See Bruckner
To go with papers on file of Senate,
which should be withdrawn & referred to Comr.
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Washington DC
Jany 10th, 58
Hon. Geo. W. Jones
Senate of the U.S.A.
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith addl. evidence in the case of William White decd. late of Georgia, whose petition through his administrator, was presented to the Senate by Hon A. Iverson, and referred to the Committee of Pensions. This case was, as I learn, examined very carefully by one of your then Committee Hon. Th. Green, and was favorably considered in part, the length of Wm White's service not being defined or determined upon. This affidavit of an old Revolutionary pensioner John Hames, I trust may determine this point. May I most respectfully ask your personal examination to this matter, and bring it up at the next meeting of your Hon. Committee.
I have the honor to be, very Respy Yr obt sert
Th. Lumpkin atty.
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Pension Office,
January 16, 1857.
Sir:
The papers in the case of William White decd. of Georgia are herewith enclosed,
together with a copy of a letter to the Secretary of the Interior of the 19th of September 1856 giving the ground upon which this office refused to allow the claim.
I am respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
S. Cole
for Commissioner

Hon G. W. Jones
Chm. Com. of Pensions,
U. S. Senate
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Secretary of the Senate
April 7, 1858
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Committee of Pensions refer to Int. Dept. the petition of William White & papers.
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Respectfully referred to the commissioner of Pensions to be filed.
Moses Kelly
Chf. Clk.
Dept. Int.
Apl 9/58.
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Rec'd 8 Apl. '58
Wm. Rhett
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In the Senate of the United States
April 7th 1858~
Ordered, that the Committee on Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Charles F. Bruckner, Admr of William White, and that it be referred to the Secretary of the Interior.
Attest:
Asbury Dickins
Secretary
by W. Hickey, Chf. Clk
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William White - Ga
Sus - 1852

charged to Jno Triplett
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Washington DC
May 15th 1859
Hon G C Whiting
Commr.
Sir:
The petition of by Chz F. Bruckner Admr. of Wm White, decd. late of Geo. for arrears of pension due under Act of 7th June '32 with accompanying papers, I desire may be withdrawn from the files of the Senate for the reason that I have filed important addl evi. in your Dept. which I am sure will be satisfactory to allow the case. I have seen the Hon Secy. of the Senate through his clerk, who informs me under the peculiar circumstances of this case, that if you will address a line to him to return said papers, with a promise that if the case is not allowed, that the same shall be returned to his files, that he will be willing to respond to your request.
I have the honor &c
Th Lumpkin
Atty.
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Adairsville Georgia
August 26. 1852.
To the Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
Sir,
I hereby authorize & empower Messrs Smith and Jones of Nashville Tennessee to prosecute the claim to Revy Pension of William White decd Act 7 June '32, & to receive the Certificate therefore
Very Respy
Your Obt Servant
Elisha King
Atty

Sent from Hendersonville No. Ca
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Cole
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Washington, March 22d 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions.
We herewith enclose additional evidence in the case of William White, decd., Georgia, Suspd., Act 7th June 1832.
We presume this evidence, will relieve the claim of the objections contained in your letter of the 3d of January last.
The marriage took place in South Carolina, where there is no public record of marriages
Very respectfully
Evans & Fant
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Mem. of alleged service
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Wm Grant (pensioner) says that in Oct '79 he & Wm White entered under Capt McJunkin, Col Brandon & served to 10 Mch '80. A short time after, White entered under Capt. Anderson, (after promoted to Major) & succeeded by Capt Avery, under whom he must he served 12 mos.
L.7 S.2 for militia duty in 81 & 82 L8.14. for service since until time of Charleston. L4.18 for service under Capt Palmer & Hughes
(L44.17 or '80, '81 & '82. 245 days under Col Stephens - 383 days under same - all these were done the same money)
Isaac White knows his brother served under Col [illegible] & Brandon & Gen Pickens.
L 2.8. for service in Brandon's Regt.
Jno. White served with Wm. 3 mos under Capt Hughes. Knows Wm. served under Capt McJunkin, Auterson, Avery, Jolly & Palmer. Also enlisted under Col Hopkins.
L 7.2.10 for 71 days in '81 & '82. 29 days in '81 under Capt Turner, Col Winn. L8.14 3¼ since [illegible] of Charleston.
(Col Andersons return.) L34.18. 6 3/4 under Palmer Hughes & Jolly, Col Brandons equal to 259 days calvary & 12 days foot.
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Adairsville Ga 23rd July 1855
Capt F.F.C. Triplett
Dear Sir
I have been for several years striving to procure the passage on allowance of a claim for a Pention to the Heirs of William White deceased, and I have produced Parroll proof from two or three witnesses also Reccord proof in a Bundance, and as I thought and still do think, amply sufficient to satisfy & convince the Commissioner of Pensions of the justice of the claim, and Indeed I thought at one time he had agreed to allow it for he was so far convinced of the justice of the claim that he reports it in these words on the 3rd of Jany 1854 he says No evidence has been adduced to Establish the date of the Marriage of William White & Applicants Mother, the proof is insufficient to show the date of their death & the number & names of the surviving Children Before a certificate can issue these defects must be cured & administration taken upon Williams Estate. But when those defects were cured, other objections were sought eventually I determined to answer in detail all the objections which had been predicated in the case which I did in a letter to Messrs Evans & Fant of Washington who were acting as my agent in the case and asked them to present it to the Commissioner with
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The addition of such suggestions as they might see proper to add, which they did and which drew forth a long Report from the Commissioner in which he makes issues of several facts which I had admited & still do admit, but which does not affect the merits of the case, for instance he says the Certificate of the Comptr. Genl. of So. Ca. Relate to at least three Different persons. It does as I have always admited relate to more than one person & perhaps three he further says they shed no light by which the Father of the Claimant can with the requisite certainly be Identified as Either. I do not insist that the Father of Claimants was the William White In. who recd .the Indent for service under Col. David Hopkins for service in 1780, 81 & 82, Though he did serve under Col David Hopkins as is stated by some of the Witnesses, for which he Received Indent No. 617. or No. 138. Neither of which express the Regiment in which the duty was performed, Therefore the record corroborates the statement of the witnesses.
The same witnesses also testify that he served under Capts Jolly Palmer & Hughes in Brandons Regiments which strictly Coroberates the Reccord on file of Indent Book X. No. 2433, and Makes a chain of Evidence sufficiently strong of itself to warrant an allowance of the claim.
Furthermore it is proven by William Grant
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who was a Pensioner, that he served with White one Tour under Capt. McJunkin commencing in Oct 1779, or rather in November 1779, & Remained under McJunkin until March 1780. Soon after which he entered the service under Capt Autersons then afterwards under Capt Avery in Brandons Regiment, that he affiant did not serve with White under Auterson & Avery, but that he did serve in the same Regiment & that White must have served under those two Capts at least Twelve Months, though he makes no mention of his service under Capts Jolly Palmer & Hughs, & in as much as he Grant makes no mention of the service under Capts Jolly, Palmer & Hughs that there is a conflicting of the statements which cannot be reconciled, & that none are entitled to Credit.
Now I insist that the whole Testimony is reviewable without the least strain, Grant states that he White served under Capts Auterson & Avery he does not know how long but he thinks at least twelve months, Commencing some time after the 10th of March 1780. The Reccord shows that White served under Capt Jolly as a Horseman from 3rd Feby 1779 to 9th May 1779, there his service was rendered before he was under Capt McJunkin with witness Grant. But again the Reccord shows that White served 72 Days under Capt Jolly as a Horseman from 12 May 1780, to 25 June 1781, Therefore he was under Jolly only 72 days
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in all that time more than a year. Therefore it is not impossible that he should have also served as Grant states under Capt McJunkin from 1st Novr. 1779. to 10th March 1780, for mark you this time is not included in the above named record Then he could as Grant says have entered the service some short time after the Tenth of March 1780 under Capt Auterson & served under him & Avery near a year and also have served under Capt Jolly 72 Days up to June the 25th 1781 by alternating as the Reccord shows he must have done because he only rendered 72 days service under Jolly from 7th May 1780 to 25th June 1781, & the Balance of the time must have been under Auterson & Avery, & Grant not being in the same company with him did not know or Reccollect that he was any of that time under Jolly, and for the service which Grant makes mention of he Received Indent No. 3191. Book X.
Will you be so good as to take up the case and examine it thoroughly so as to make yourself familiar with the Facts & get the Commissioner to reconsider the case & Impress the facts upon his mind fully & forcibly & I must think you will get an allowance, for I fear Messrs Evans & Fant has not insisted on the facts as they should have done, this is a valuable claim & I will pay you as in other cases
I am very Respectfully
Elisha King

Capt F.F.C. Triplett
Washington City D.C
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Adairsville Ga 8th Jany 1855
F. S. Evans & H. G. Fant Esqs
Gentlemen
Will you be so good as to look into the case of Mr. A.C. Gunn, who is an applicant for a Pension from Georgia under Act of 7th June 1832, on account of the services of his Father Alexander Gunn in the war of the Revolution, and inform me of the standing of the case, Mr. Gunn is my neighbour & has been at me for some time to take charge of his claim which I have refused to do on account of his having given it up some year or two ago to other gentlemen, but he has heard nothing of his case for more than a year as he says. If the claim is in a condition to be obtained we will take charge of it, as I presume his agent has abandoned it.
I am growing verry impatient in the White case. In your last of 16th Decr you inform me you will call up the case the next Monday & will write me fully on the subject next week, I have not heard from you since, I also have subsequently recd. a letter from your Mr. Evans, dated 25th Decr saying that Mr. Fant had called up the case of Wm White & expected a report in a day or two, he also informs me that you expected to [illegible] your connection in the Agency Business &C. If there cannot be a certificate obtained in that
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case then it is useless to try any case in which there cannot be living witnesses found who served with the soldier through all his service.
In that case there is a record for considerable service, then there is the affidavit of Wm. Grant a pensioner who swears he served with White from 1st Novr 1779 to 10th March 1780, when they return home but was soon called into the service again when White went under Capt Auterson & subsequently under Capt Avery, Affiant did not serve in the same Company with claimant under Capt Auterson & Avery but he served in the same Regiment & must think he served under those capts at least 12 months, all this service witness says was in Col. Brandons Regiment & it makes 16 months service & corroborates the Reccord, by Identifying him as serving in Brandons Regiment then Isaac White proves service & Identifies him with the reccord then John White whose affidavit was last forwarded proves that he served a three months Tour with William White & and that he rendered other service in the Militia also that he entered the service under Col David Hopkins as a mounted soldier & that he was mounted on a Large Bay Horse &C. he also states that William was in the Revolution most of the time during the whole War &c. and all of those men who testify were in a position to know the facts to which they do testify so now what detains a certificate I do not understand I hope you will urge a decision & if it is not allowed by the examining Clerk, procure Mr. Waldo to examine the case himself he will allow it.
I am very Respectfully
Elisha King

Messrs Evans & Fant
Washington

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Evans & Fant to be returned to EK
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Department of the Interior
Washington, November 22 1856
Sir:
Upon a due examination of the claim of Newton White, as the son of William White decd. for a pension alleged to be due his said father, for his services in the War of the Revolution, I am satisfied of the correctness of the decision of your Bureau. Consequently, that decision, has been fully affirmed by this Department, and the papers in the case, herewith returned to your office.
I am, with much respect
Tour Obdt Servt
R McClelland
Secretary

Geo. C. Whiting Esqr
Commr of Pensions
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Pension Office
December 7th, 1848.
Sir,
The papers in the case of William White decd. have been examined and filed under the act of June 7, 1832.
It appears from the declaration of Newton White that his father William White died but a few years since. His failure during the twelve or thirteen years he was living after the passage of the Act of 7th June 1832, to apply for the benefit of that law, raises so strong a presumption against his having rendered sufficient service during the Revolutionary War to entitle him to a pension, that, in order to identify him with the soldier to whom the several Indents were issued, as exhibited by the certificate of the Comptroller General of South Carolina, the clearest and most satisfactory proof will be required. The testimony of two or more credible witnesses who were themselves in service, and who can state the date of his entering and the time and manner of his leaving the same with the names of the company and Field Officers under whom
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each tour was rendered only, will be deemed sufficient to justify the Department in issuing certificates to White's children for the service referred to in the Comptroller General's certificate.
This claim is wholly unsustained by proof such as can be admitted.
I am, very respectfully
Your Obt. Sevrt.
J G Berret
for Commr. of Pensions

Elisha King, Esqr.
Adairsville,
Cap County, Ga
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11452
To the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled
The petition of C. F. Bruckner Administrator on the estate of William White, decd. late of Georgia, a Revolutionary soldier, who asserted his claim to a pension under the act of 7th June 1832, and who died in 1844 leaving three children, humbly represents to your Hon. Body that full proof shewing his service, identity & death, are now on file in the Pension Office to which he respectfully refers, but the pension not being granted he humbly prays your Hon. Body to grant him the arrears for the sole benefit of such children and for which he will in duty bound humbly pray &c.
C. F. Bruckner
Admin of Wm White decd.
January 14th 1860
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Pension Office
May 8, 1857
Sir;
The papers in the case of William White dec'd of Georgia, were on the 16th of January sent to the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, of the U.S. Senate. Papers cannot be withdrawn from the Senate files except upon a Resolution of that body.
I am, Very respectfully
Your Obt Serv't
Geo C Whiting
Commissioner
Thomas Lumpkin Esq.
Present.
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Washington City, D.C.
Jany. 12, 1857.
Sir
Enclosed please find the petition of Charles F. Bruckner Admr of Wm White, which is referred to your office for such information, by papers or otherwise as the peculiar language of the petition may demand, according to your Judgement.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your humble Servt.
Geo. W. Jones
Ch. Comr on Pensions
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Com. Pensions
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William White decd
Georgia, Susp
Act 7th June 1832.
Add evidence
filed Aug 26, 1854.

Evans & Fant 
Washington City
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State of Tennessee
Polk County
County Court Clerks Office
August the 17th 1854.
I Emmons P. Douglass, Clerk of County Court In the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Michael C. Higdon before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly Elected Commissioned and Sworn as such and the Signature thereunto annexed purporting to be his is genuine and is entitled to full faith and credit as such.
In Testimony whereof I have herein unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at my office in the Town of Benton this day and date above written.
E P Douglass, clerk
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Department of the Interior
Washington, February 16. 1857
Sir:
In response to your note of the 14th inst, I have the honor to transmit herewith, to the Committee on Pensions, a copy of my letter to the Commissioner of Pensions affirming his decision, rejecting the claim of Norton White, son of William White decd. for arrears of Pension, alleged to be due his said father for services in the War of the Revolution.
The papers in the case which accompanied your note, are herewith returned.
I am with much respect
Your Obt Servant
R McClelland
Secretary

The Hon:
Geo. W Jones
Chm. Com Pensions
U.S. Senate
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Copy

Department of the Interior
Washington, November 22 1856.
Sir:
Upon a due examination of the claim of Newton White, as the son of William decd, for a pension, alleged to be due his said father, for his services in the war of the Revolution, I am satisfied of the correctness of the decision of your Bureau. Consequently, that decision has been fully
affirmed by this Department, and the papers in the case, herewith return to your office. 
I am with much respect
Your Obt Servt
R. McClelland
Secretary

Geo. C Whiting Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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(Copy) A.G.F.
Pension Office Sept 19. 1856
Geo. C. Whiting Esqr
Acting Sec of Interior
Sir
have the honor to enclose the papers in the case of William White (deceased) of Georgia. White died in 1844 & in 1847 his son Newton White preferred this claim for arrears of Pension alleged to be due on account of his fathers services in the war of the Revolution. He declares that his father served all the time in Colonel Brandons Regiment but under various Captains, as McJunkin, Anterson, Avery, Jolly, Palmer & Hughes. several witnesses, without being able to give any definite description of the service, swear that he did serve as alleged; and the Comptroller of South Carolina has furnished various certificates showing that a considerable amount of service was rendered by a man or several men by the name of Wm White. I have not found myself able to ascertain which of these men, if either of them, was the soldier for whose services arears
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of Pension are claimed. In order to lessen the difficulties of the case, the agent was required to procure from the office of the Comptroller of South Carolina fac similes of the signatures to the receipts which was given for the payments made for services credited to a man of his name, & also some original signatures of an old date known to have been made by the claimant's father, that a comparison might be instituted between them.
In paper marked A are the fac similes, a single glance at which will show that they are the fac similes of at least three different signatures. Paper "B" contains the original signatures of claimant's father; the question is, do these originals bear such a likeness to either of the fac similes as to lead to a reasonable belief that they were made by the same man. I think they do not, & for while there may be a general similarity between his signature and the fac simile to be found on the issue paper that first meets the eye on opening the paper 'A" yet the similarity
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does not seem to me sufficiently striking and certain to justify the conclusion that they were made by the same person. Without attempting to point out particularly the difference, I would suggest that it occurs to me that the appearances of the signature in the fac simile indicates a less steady and firm hand than the originals of the claimants father, in the absence of any other cause this would naturally be assigned to difference of age; yet if these signatures were, in fact, made by the claimant's father as claimed. It would seem that his hand was less steady and firm in 1786 when the signature in the fac simile was made, than in 1839 when the others were made and when his father was 43 years older.
The general features of this case are so unsatisfactory that a very rigid examination of every part of it became necessary. It is to be observed that according to the sons story, White frequently spoke about his service and yet he lived more than 13 years after the passage of the act under which he might have asserted a
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claim, & failed to do so, it is difficult to account for this except upon the presumption that he did not serve long enough to have been entitled to a pension, again while it is evident from the very reading of the record evidence in the case that one man did not under all the service mentioned in it, yet almost every day of it is alleged to have been performed by claimants father, and the testimony of the witnesses sustain the claim to the whole. This evident error greatly impairs confidence in the claimants statements of his fathers service & in the testimony of the witnesses thereto, and creates the impression that the claim is based upon a knowledge of what the record shows, rather than upon any certain knowledge of the facts, I have therefore refused its allowance. Hon J.H. Lumpkin has appealed from this decision, at the request of Elisha King of Adairsville, Georgia.
I am Respectfully &c
J. Minot, Commr
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Washington, Aug 26th 1854
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm. of Pensions
We herewith enclose additional evidence in the case of William White, Georgia, Susp. Act 7th June 1832.
We have been unable to obtain the autograph signature of William White, but we have obtained the affidavit of his brother, which certainly proves the identify of William with the indent issued in his favor, to say nothing of the other testimony which is on file.
The affidavit of William Grant establishes 16 months service in Brandons Reg., then the affadavit of Isaac White claims that William entered the service at an early period in the War, and was in the service all the time until the close thereof, that he served under Col Brandon & Hopkins, and the affidavit of John White, corroborates both of the above statements, and shows that William entered the service at an early period of the war, and served several tours, before he, John, entered the service, that he recollects only to have served one tour with him, that he was well acquainted
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with Captain McJunkin, Auterson, Avery Jolly, Palmer, and Hughes and knows that his brother served under all of them. But from the great lapse of time, and the number of tours, he cannot describe them separately. These three Witnesses concurring in the service rendered in Brandon's Reg. clearly entitles us to the following indents - Book X. No 3191 L13. S.11 D.5. Book 2 No 617 L7. S.2. D.1. Book S. No 138. L8. S.14 D 3 1/4 Book X. No 2433 L34.1 S.18 D 6 3/4, which amounts to about 40 months as a private of Infantry. But there seems to be of this service 229 days rendered as a Horseman, according to the last Indent which is rather more than 7 months as a private of Cavalry. This is enough without saying any thing of the services which the witnesses prove to have been rendered under Col Hopkins, and it may be that some of the small payments, above mentioned, were for services rendered in Col Hopkins Rig, though we think it most probable they are all for services in Brandons Reg. We think that the case is now fully made out.
Very respectfully
Evans & Fant
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Hamilton G. Fant, Banker.
Claims against the Government Collected
Pennsylvania Avenue bet. 4 1/2 and 6th Street
Washington, D. C. March 15th 1855.

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
We herewith enclose additional evidence in the case of William White, decd, Georgia, Suspd. Act 7th June 1832.
We would call your attention particularly to the letter of Mr Elisha King, as he fully explains the case, and this in connection with the certificate of the Comptroller General, we think will remove the objections here to found urged.
Very respectfully
F. S. Evans
for H. G. Fant
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Hamilton G. Fant, Banker.
Claims against the Government Collected
Pennsylvania Avenue bet. 4 1/2 and 6th Street
Washington, D. C. Decr 16 1854

L. P. Waldo, Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Dear Sir,
On the 26th August last Evans & Fant filed additional evidence in the case of Wm White, Ga Act 7th June 1832, & I request that the same may be disposed of. I enclose you herewith a letter from Mr King which accompanied the proof refered, & which my throw some light upon the evidence.
Very respectfully
Yr Obt Sert
Hamilton G Fant
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617 or 138
2433 - 3191
3 Feby 79 to 9 May 79
7 May 80 to 25 June 81 72d
3191 or 138 - Book S
2433-
2433 = L34.18.6 3/4 = 254
horseman = 8 mo 19d  
63d pri 2 - 3 pri
25 march
72 "
63 pri
45 horse
13 1/2
16 1/2
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Adairsville Ga 16th Febr 1855
Messrs. Evans & Fant
Gentlemen,
Your favour of 3rd, Inst covering the Report of Commissioner in the case of William White dated 22nd. Jany came safe to hand. The first objection urged by Mr. Waldo against the claim is that William White lived until the 7th day of October 1844, more than 12 years after the date of the act, under which this claim is asserted, and never presented any application for the benefits of said Act. 
In answer to which I have only to say that it is clearly shown by the Declaration of Newton his son, that he William was incapable of making such application by reason of Insanity with which he was afflicted for 15 years before his death, & that he was not aware that any other person could make a declaration for him, and this statement is well sustained by the Oath of William Grant & also by the Certificate of Esqr. Nance before whom Grant made his affidavit. They both being intimately acquainted with him all the time upon an examination of the statements of those three men upon that fact, that objection will fall to the ground at once.
Next there seems to be some difficulty in reconciling the several Indents Issued from the Compt Genls Office of So Ca. to the service claimed & endeavoured to be sustained by the witnesses, Now had the service been discribed by William White himself, a perfect caroboration between the service & the Reccord, might have been expected & insisted upon, but Newton the son does not pretend to give a correct description of the service of his
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Father It is true he describes it as near as he can & it is remarkable he should have caroborated the reccord as well as he has. From the reccord itself it is evident there was two or perhaps three William Whites in the service in So Ca. Consequently all the reccord could not corroborate either one of their services, we must therefore see what payments do, and what ones do not corroborate the service. I am of opinion that the Indent for 70 days duty in the Militia in 1781 & 1782 for the sum of L.7. S.2 D10, did not issue to the Father of the claimant because it does not caroberate the statement of the witnesses. I see from the account upon which that Indent Issued, it was for service under Captain Turner in Col. Clemes Regiment & there is no such service claimed by the present applicant we claim all our service in Col Brandons Regiment. William Grant a Pensioner, swears, he entered the service with William White in Octr 1779. Under Capt McJunkin in Brandons Regiment & served until March following that soon thereafter White again entered the service under Capt Auterson again in Brandons Regiment & that he served under him & Capt Avery at least twelve months, he (Wit) did not serve with White under Auterson & Avery but served in the same Regiment. In this service I think Grant was mistaken, for it seems from the statement of Newton White the claimant & from the affidavits of both Isaac & John White that William served under Captains Palmer Jolly & Hughs, and from the accounts upon which Indent No. 24.33. Book X., Issued & which is now before me a portion of that time he served under Capt
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Jolly, But may he not have gone into service as Grant states in March 1780 under Capt Auterson and on the 7th of May following have been under Capt Jolly, as this was Militia Service & the Tours of which were fluctuating that they were fluctuating fully appears from the Rreccord itself, for instance take the account upon which the last named Indent Issued & you see charged first 25 Days under Capt Palmer. then 72 Days under Do. then 72 days again from 7th May 1780 to 25th June 1781, under Capt Jolly, then 63 days from 7th Oct to 18th Decr 1781, then 45 Days from 10th Decr 1782 to 23rd Jany 1783, - all this service was rendered in Brandons Regiment and Grant the witness serving in that Regiment may he not be correct in saying that while entered the service under Capt Auterson in March, & in May might not White have been under Capt Jolly a few days as a horseman then again been back under Capt Auterson & Avery, & Grant have been ignorant or forgetful of the fact that he was at all under Jolly, as he was not in the same company with him, for the fact is, from the Reccord White could not have served but a few days at a time under those Captains for he was from 7th May 1780 to 25th June 1781, more than a year rendering 72 days service and the balance of the time he was no doubt according to the statement of the Witness & the nature of the service under Capts Avery & Auterson, which is corroborated by Indents Lib H. Nos. 3190 & 3191, one of which is herewith sent & which I thought heretofore unnessesary to send as the amt was so small (I mean No 31.90) and I only deem it nessisary now to send it as explanatory of the facts, for
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you will perceive that Indent No. 3191. Issued for service in Col. Brandon's Regiment since the fall of Charleston, and a part of Whites service as proven by Grant was before that event & that, that is true is plain from Indent 31.90 for you will perceive from the account upon which it issued that it was for service before & since the fall of Charleston, that it is also for a Balance of service, & must have been for a balance of the same service for which No. 3191. Issued as they both issue on the same day both entered at the same time one right after the other Numbering 3190 & 3191. This must either be so or else No 3190 is a balance due the same Individual to whom Indent No. 138. Lib S. Issued a year before, and in either event it explains & corroborates the service of William White as stated by the Witnesses, as near as could be expected from the nature of the service, Isaac White & John White his Brothers, who have a right to know something of the nature of his service. Both state that his tours of service were numerous, & they give the names of a great many captains under whom he served, &c.
The Commissioner seems to think it strange that White did not close his whole amount at one time. I ask is it usual where soldiers rendered numerous Tours of service under various officers, in the Militia for them to close their whole account at the same time, I think not and for reasons very obvious, the Board of Auditors, before whom these Accounts were adjusted, did not set continuously, they had stated periods at which they set for the dispatch of Publick Business & when soldiers had not the proof at hand to establish their accounts at any
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given meeting of the Board of Auditors they had to wait until another meeting &c.
Mr. Waldo suggests that the accounts upon which Indents Nos. 617. 138 & 2433 Isd. might throw light upon the subject, I concur with him in that opinion & think they do throw light upon the subject. I had not perceived that they were not on file, they are herewith sent.
He also seems to think that the Indents on Paper marked A. only complicate the case. I sent it because it was a Part of the Reccord, & not that I expected we could Identify Claimants Father with it.
He also says the Depositions of John & Isaac White do not carry conviction to the mind, aside from the fact that they are brothers of the said William, they contain expressions too sweeping & indefinite to be relied upon. They now seem to suppose that William was in service the whole war, altho they do not pretend to have been with him but one tour of 3 months.
Upon a reexamination of the affidavits of Isaac & John, it will be perceived that Isaac does not pretend to have been in the service at all, he was too young to enter the service but was old enough to know something of the scenes of the war & to have some general knowledge of the services of his Brother, the names of the Officers he served under O.C. Now it is perfectly reasonable & Natural that he should know the facts to which he testifies, for those facts he would naturally get in possession of, from the common conversation of his Brother & others even after the war, as the scenes of the war.
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must have been spoken of after & with much Interest in every assembly & even in every family for years after its close, then Isaac certainly heard his brother speak of the Officers under whom he served, Isaac's affidavit however was not taken to prove services, it was taken in compliance with a requirement of the Commissioner to show the Legitimacy of the surviving children & the number & names thereof.
John Whites affidavit was taken with a view to prove service and upon an examination of his declaration for a Pension, (for he is an applicant) it will be perceived that he claims only to have served nine months in the whole war. Therefore it is not strange that he should have served but three months of that time with William, and the Balance of the time in the same Regiment but not under the same Captain, Nor is it strange that William should not have availed himself of Johns Testimony in his life time, as William was labouring under Insanity the whole time he lived after the passage of the act of 7th June 1832. Neither is it strange that Newton the present applicant should not have obtained his affidavit until the year 1854, I have the management of the case, & when I first undertook it, Newton White told me his Uncle John could prove his Fathers service if he was living, but that he did not know whether he was alive or not. That many years ago he went from So. Carolina to the State of Tennessee & that he had not heard from him since O.C. I therefore for a length of time did not look after him hoping the case could be attained without his Testimony. I afterwards learned he was living only about 100 miles off still hoping however that the Proof obtained would pass the claim I neglected to look after him, & in this way the taking
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of his affidavit was delayed.
Upon the whole from the Testimony now before the Commissioner togeather with what is herewith sent this will give us the Benefit of Indent No 2433 Book X. as it pertains to service under Capts Jolly Palmer & Hughs for Newtons Recollection is distinct in his Fathers serving under those Captains & he even recollects that the service under Capt Hughs was against the Tories & Indians, & the reccord corroborates that fact as it shows that service was as late as 1783, & John White's affidavit Identifies Claimants Father with that Reccord for he is possitive in stating that William Served under all of those captains & that he served with him under Captain Hughs, and as none of the other Indents shows service under those Captains, & we show that claimants father served under them all, then it must be our Indent beyond all question I am gratified that the account upon which this Indent Issued throws so much light upon the subject.
And again it is testified by all of the Witnesses that William White Rendered other service, besides that which was performed under Captains Jolly Palmer & Hughs, William Grant could not be mistaken as to the 4 months & Ten days he served with him under Capt Joseph McJunkin, nor is it likely he is mistaken as to Williams entering the service immediately thereafter under Capt Auterson, though it seems he is mistaken as to the duration of that service, and that he should be mistaken as to its duration is not strange, when we consider that there was but 72 Day of the time from 7 May 1780 to the 25th of June 1781, that William is found under Capt
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Jolly & that service must have been but a few days at a time, & that too in the same Regiment so the balance of the time he may & must according to Grants statement have been under Capt Auterson & Avery, also according to the statement of John White they are both positive in their statements as to Williams serving under all of those or rather both of those captains, both of their statements are perfectly in accordance with what they had a right to know from their position at the time, their position was not such as would enable them to describe the different tours of Williams. Service, though it was such as would enable them to know, the Officers under whom he served Grant does not state positively as to the duration of Whites service under Capt Auterson, & Avery, he thinks it must have been at least as much as 12 months, he however describes it as Militia Service, and does not intend to say it was continuous, John White states that his Brother William served under Capts. McJunkin, Auterson, Avery, Hughs, Jolly & Palmer but from the great lapse of time & the number of tours of service he cannot undertake to describe them, though he knows William was under them all & that the service was all in Brandons Regiment.
So Both the Indents No 138, Book S & No 31.91. Lib H. Isd. for service in Brandons Regiment, It is true they are both for service since the fall of Charleston, & a part of Whites service was before that event though it is a very small part the great bulk of it was after, and it is apparent that one of the other of those Indents in saying since the fall of Charleston were incorrect, from Indent No. 3190 Lib H, (which is herewith sent) Issues for a Balance due William
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White before & since the fall of Charleston, proving evidently it must be to the same man that either one or the other of the Indents Nos. 138, or 31.91. Issued to & that a part of the service was before the fall of Charleston, and thereby Coroborates the Testimony in this case most admirable, and clearly establishes the fact that Indent No 3190 & Either No. 3191 or 138. Issued to Claimants Father and it is most likely from the fact that Nos. 3190 & 3191, Issuing on the same day & were entered in direct succession one after the other, that it was No 3191. Issued to this claimant as Indent No 3190, Explains the facts so as to completely corroborate the Parroll proof in this case, by its issuing for a Balance due William White for service before & since the fall of Charleston. I flatter myself the additional proof herewith sent will be so explanatory of the facts in this case as to enable the Commissioner to grant an allowance at once To the Administrator on the Estate of Claimants Father the said William White.
You can lay the foregoing before the Commissioner with such additional suggestions as you may see proper to make.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Elisha King

Messrs Evans & Fant
Washington City
D.C.
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Adairsville Ga 29th May 1856
To Comr. of Pensions
Dear Sir
Inclosed please find the signature of William White to a Bill of Sale dated 30th Jany 1829. Togeather with Fac simile of his signatures to his orders, for his Indents, All of which is offered in support of the claim of the Heirs of the said William White for a Pension under act of 7th June 1832, I doubt not but that the strong similitude which exists between the actual signature of Mr. White and the Fac simile here sent will be satisfactory proof to you, that they are the signatures of one and the same person, and that William White the Father of Newton White the present applicant is the man to whom those Indents were paid Namely No. 2433, 3191 & 3190. Book X. It could not be expected of the signature of one who wrote as badly as Mr. White, that they would of approach each other nearer in similitude than those do, when made at different periods with different pens Ink &.C. and that two at periods upwards of Forty Years apart, for it is more than forty years from the date of the Indents to the date of the Bill of Sale, and yet the style & form of the letters are perfectly Identical. It is true in one of the Fac similes there is a little more flourish than to either of the other signatures I allude to the one in No 2433, and in that you will see that the W. used in spelling the word White has double as much of that flourish as the one used in spelling the word William and bears as little or perhaps less similitude to the one used
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in spelling William, (in the same Signature) than those used in either of the other signatures, and if they did not occur in the same signature, you would likely conclude they were not made by the same hand, but if you will notice the general style of all the letters, the small ones as well as the Capitals, you will perceive they must have been made by the same hand, see the small letters in the word White, and they are as Identical in all the signatures, as if they had been made the same day by the same hand.
Then in addition to all that take the Parroll proof & it will be seen to coroborate the Reccord take the affidavit of old Mr. John White and you find that he says, William White served under Captains Palmer, Jolly and Hughs in Brandons Regiment, thereby perfectly coroborating with the Reccord in Indent No. 2433 and Identifying claimant's Father with that payment. Then take the statement he makes, together with the statement of William Grant, (whose affidavit is also on file) with regard to the service of Claimants Father, under Capts McJunkin, Auterson & Avery in Brandons Regiment and you find they both coroborate the Reccord in Indents No 3191 & 3190, Book X, and identify him fully with those payments. This case has long been on hand at one time the Commissioner agreed to allow it upon proof of Marriage Legality of heirship the number and names of surviving children and the taking out of Letters of Administration See Report of Case 3d Jany 1854, Those Requirements were complied with, and the Commissioner then required
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Just what is here furnished, an autographin Signature of William White, with the certificate of Comptroller Genl. &C. But the Comptroller Genl. refuses to give such certificate profering to furnish a Fac simile of the signatures on file in his office which I regard as being better, for proof of legality of heirship. See affidavits of Isaac White & John White on file.
I flatter myself you will now be satisfied to grant an allowance in this case for full pay computing 259 days of the service as Horsemans Service & at Horsemans pay as shown by Indent No 2433, the Balance of the payments at Privates pay they being sufficient to cover more than two years Service.
The certificate of Pension will of course issue payable to the Administrator Mr. C. F. Bruckner, You have been furnished with a transcript of the Record showing the appointment of the Administrator.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Elisha King

To Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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State of Tennessee
Polk County 
On this 16th Day of August one Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty four personally came before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County John White a Revolutionary Soldier, aged about one Hundred years a resident Citizen of this County an applicant for a Pension and a highly creditable and Respectable Old Gentleman, and a man of Truth and veracity, and after being duly sworn declares upon his oath that he in the Brother of William White Decst. who died in Walker County Georgia in the year (1844) Eighteen Hundred and forty four, and who is the father of Newton White who is an applicant for the amount of Pension which accrued & fell due to his Father the said William White Decst. He further states that his Brother the said William White Decst. was in the War of the Revolution the most of his time from the Beginning of the war to the ending of it. They lived in Union District South Carolina at the time, and the said William Volunteered into the service at an early period of the war and served several tours witness cannot state how many before affiant entered the service affiant does not recollect ever to have served but one tour with the said William and that tour was under Capt. Hughs which was of three months duration, and is described in his application for a Pension, He knows his brother served under Captain Joseph McJunkins, also under Captain Auterson, Captain Avery Captain Jolly and
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Captain Palmer. he affiant was well acquainted with all of those captains and knows his Brother the said William went out into the service under them all but from the great lapse of time, and the number of tours of service he cannot describe them seperately with such accuracy as to be willing to swear to such description though he can with certainly swear that his brother did serve under all of those men, and he thinks all of this service was rendered in Col Brandons Regiment. He further states that his brother the said William White at one time entered the service as an Enlisted Soldier under Col. David Hopkins and was mounted on a large Gray Horse, as the service was cavalry service and they started from home to go to Savannah as was then understood but how long he served & when that service commenced affiant will not undertake to state upon his oath, though he knows, he was in that service.
John White his mark X
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written after the same was read aloud to affiant and by him understood
Micheal C Higdon {JP}
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State of Georgia
Walker County
On this 16th day of April A.D. 1856 Personally before me the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the State & County aforesaid John White aged fifty five years a resident of this County and after being duly sworn declares upon his oath that he was personally and intimately acquainted with William White Decst. late of this County, who was a revolutionary soldier, and who was the father of Newton White of this County who is an applicant for himself and his brother & sisters, for the amount of Pension which accrued and fell due to the said William White under act of Congress of 7th June 1832, and that he was familiarly acquainted with the hand writing of the said William White, and that he knows the signature of the said William White to the annexed Bill of Sale as maker thereof bearing date the 30th day of Jany 1829, is in his own proper hand Writing, and should be credited as such, he further states that he has no interest in the said claim for a Pension
John White
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above. And I certify that the witness is a highly creditable person & his statements as above is entitled to credit
T. E. Patton J.I.C.
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State of Georgia
Walker County
I James H. Rogers Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas E. Patton whose genuine signature appears to the within affidavit and before whom the same was sworn to and subscribed is an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn
and that full faith and credit is due all his Official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Office in the Town of LaFayette this 16th day of April
A.D. 1856.
James H Rogers Clerk
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Pension Office
January 23, 1858
Sir:
I have the honor herewith to return the papers in the case of Charles F. Bruckner administrator of Wm White and also those in the case of Nancy Read widow of Levi Read an alleged Revolutionary Soldier.
These papers were transmitted by this office to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, during the last Session of Congress, together with reports of the condition of the claims to which they referred. No additional evidence has since been filed in this office in relation to these claims.
With great Respect
I have the honor to be
Your Obt Sevt
Geo C Whiting
Commissioner

Hon. Geo. W. Jones
Chairman Com. Revo. Pensions
U.S. Senate
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State of South Carolina
Anderson district
Known all men By thes [these]presants [present] that I William White Senior of the State aforsaid [aforesaid] dow [do] Bargan [bargain] and sell unto William White Junior of the State of South Carolina and Pickens District a Certin [certain] neg[illegible negro] gairl [girl] By name of Lucy of about three years of age for a cearten [certain] sum of ninty [ninety] five dollars to mee [me] in hand paid by William White Junior of the State aforsaid [aforesaid] Whitah, Jairl I warrant sound and [illegible] with titles Compleet [complete] from mee [me] my [illegible] and assure
all other persons to hom [whom] it may consern [concern] unto William White Junior of the State and County aforsaid [aforesaid]
William White
this 30th day of Jany 1829
Test. John Myers
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Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia So Ca February 12th 1855.
"No 617.
Book 2
Issued the 30 of May 1785. to Mr William White for Seven Pounds two shillings and ten Pence farthing Sterling for 71 days duty in the Militia in 1781 and 1782 as pr account audited.
Principal L 7.2.10¼ Annual Interest L 0.9.11
No 15"
"617.2. Mr William White his acct of Militia duty in 1781 & 1782. 71 days Amotg to L 7.2.10¼ Stg
It does not express when the duty commenc'd or Ended"
"State of So Carolina
To William Whit Dr
1781.
To 29 days serves under the command of Capt John Turner in Col. Winns Regt at 20/ pr Day Conance Starling L 4.2.10
1782 to 42 days serves at 10/per day Corancey 3.0.0
Total 7.2.10.
Personally came William White before me Phil' Walker Esqr and being sworn made oath that this above account against the Publick is just and true as it stands here stated.
"William White"
Sworn to this 1st of January 1784
"Phil' Walker J. P."
I do sartify [certify] the above account to be true.
"John Turner Capt."
"Recd full satisfaction for the within in an Indent N 617.Q.
"William White"
"No 138
Lib S.
Issued the 7th June 1785 to Mr William White for Eight Pounds 14/3 ¼ Stlg for duty
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as Private since the reduction of Charleston pr account audited.
Principal L 8.14.3 ¼
Annual Interest L0.12.2.
No. 42."
"No 42. 138. S. Mr Wm White his Acct of duty as private since the reduction of Charlestown amg to Curry. L 61.
Stg L 8.14.3 ¼ 
State So Carolina Dr to Wm White for duty pr Col Anderson's return
L 61
Stg 8.14.3 ¼
"Received 5th 8th day of June 1785 full satisfaction for the within Accompt No. 138. S.
"William White"
"No 2433
Book X
Issued the 18 April 1786 to Mr William White for Thirty four pounds Eighteen Shillings and six pence three farthing Sterling for duty done in Capt Palmer Hughes & Jolly Companies Brandons Regiment as pr Account audited.
No 104. Principal L 34.18.6¾
Annual Interest L 2.8.10
"No 104. No 2433 Book X 18 April 1786. William White For 259 days duty as Horseman & 63 days duty as private of Foot from the 3d February 1779 to the 23d January 1783 alternately in the Company's of Captains Palmer, Jolley & Hughes in Colo
Brandon's Regt.
Charg'd Curry L 290.10.
Deduct less 46.0.0
Currency L244.10.0.
Sterling L 34.18.6¾"
The State of South Carolina to William White Dr
To 25 days duty as Horse from the 3d to the 27th
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Febry 1779 Inclusive of pay Bill of Capt Palmer & Cert p Col Thomas Brandon a 20/- L 25.-.-
To 72 days duty as Horseman from the 27th Feby to the 9th May 1779 inclusive p Pay Bill of Do & Certd p  Ditto 72.-.-
"dedt 1 day less being incld in first charge 20/"
To 72 days duty as Horseman from the 7th May 1780 to 25th June 1781 inclusive p Pay Bill of Capt Jolley, Certd p Do 72.-.-
To 63 days duty as a private of foot from the 7th October to 18th Decemr 1781 p pay Bill of Capt Hughes Certd p. Do 31.10.-
Amount carried over L 200.10.-
Amount brought over L 200.10.-
To 45 days duty as a Horseman from the 10th of Dec 1782 to the 23d January 1783 both days included, p Pay Bill of Capt Joseph Hughes Certd Col Brandon-- 45.-.-
To 45 days duty as Do from the 10th Dec 1782 to the 23d Jany 1783 both days included p. Pay Bill of Capt Hughes Certd p do 45.-.-
"This is twice charged "
L 290 -10 -
Stg L 41-10 -
L199.10
45.
L244.10
34 -18.6 3/4 Stg
"Gentlemen pleas let the Borar Samuel Smith have the Indents for my publick accounts and this order shall be a Recept for the same.
Given under my hand Febr 7th 1788.
"William White"
To the Comissioners of the Publick Tresserey Charleston.
Before me Wm Kennedy J. P.
William White L 41.10 / 22 February 1786.
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Recd 21 Feb 1788, the amount of this Acct in a Treasy Indent No 2433 Book X p. Order "Samuel Smith"
I do hereby certify the foregoing to be true Copies as taken from the Records of this Office.
For Comptroller General
P. S. Jacobs
Deputy
(No Seal of Office)
Page 106

37.639
William White dcd
Ga
Act 7 June '32
Page 107

Comptroller Genl. Office
Columbia So. Ca. 25th Sept 1847
Indent Book Q No 617 No 1
Issued 3d May 1785 to Mr William White, for seven pounds two shillings and ten pence farthing. for 71 days duty in the Militia in 1781 and 1782. pr acct audited
L 7.2.10 1/4
Indent Book S. No 138 No 2
Issued 7th June 1785 to Mr William White, for eight pounds 14/3 1/4 sterling for duty as a private. since the Reduction of Charleston Pr account audited
L 8.14.3 1/4
Indent Book X No 2433 No 3
[written in different ink - May 12, 1780]
Issued 18th April 1786 to Mr William White, for thirty four pounds Eighteen shillings and six pence, three farthings, Sterling for duty
done, in Captains, Palmer, and Hughs Companies, Brandon Regt. Pr audited. 
L 34.18.6 3/4

I do hereby certify that the above extracts. numbered 1, 2, & 3 in the margin, are true copies, taken from the several Indent Books, specified, in said extracts.
Wm. C. Black
Compl. Gen
pr Ben. Hart
Page 108

GEORGIA, Walker COUNTY
By the Court of Ordinary for said County.
WHEREAS, William White late of said county, deceased, died intestate, having while he lived, and at the time of his death, divers goods, chattels, rights and credits within the county aforesaid, by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting the administration of all, and singular, the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased; and also a final dismission from the same, to the court aforesaid, does of right belong, and said court desiring that the goods, chattels, rights and credits of said deceased, may be well and truly administered, and legally disposed of, do hereby grant to Charles F. Bruckner Clerk of the Inferior Court of Said County administrator, full power by the tenure of these presents, to administer the goods, chattels, rights and credits of said deceased, which to him in his lifetime and at the time of his death did belong and to ask, demand, sue for recover and receive the same, and to pay the debts in which the deceased stood bound so far forth as this assets will extend, according to law, and then the balance justly to pay over to the legal heirs, and distributees of the said deceased. And the said Charles F. Brucker having given bond and security, and taken the oath and performed all other requisites required by law, necessary to his just qualification as administrator; he is by order of said court and by virtue of these present ordained, constituted and appointed administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of said deceased.
Witness, James Hage Ordinary for Walker County, this 7th day of Decr 1852.
James Hage Ordinary. {L.S.}
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Proof of Administration
Page 110

Georgia
Walker County
Court of Ordinary
December Term 1852
The Court of Ordinary met according to adjournment. Present James Hage Ordinary for said County
It appearing to the Court that the estate of William White late of said County, deceased, is unrepresented, and due and legal notice having been given that unless previous application should be made, administration on the estate of said deceased would, at the present term of this Court, be granted to Charles F. Bruckner Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County of Walker according to the statutes of this state in such case made and provided. And no such application having been made It is ordered by the Court that the said Charles F. Bruckner, Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County as aforesaid be and he hereby is appointed administrator of all the estate both real and personal of said deceased in term of the law in such case made and provided, and that letters of administration issue to him.
James Hage Ordinary
Georgia Walker County
I James Hage Ordinary in & for said County hereby certify that the above & foregoing is a true extract from the minutes & records of the Court of Ordinary of said County as appears from the Books of my office
Given under my hand & seal of office at office in Lafayette this 8th day of March 1854
James Hage Ordinary
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Georgia
Walker County
The following is an exemplification of the proceedings of this court in the appointment of Charles F Bruckner as administrator of the estate of William white decd. To wit.
Copy Bond
Georgia
Walker County
Know all men by these presents that we Charles F Bruckner as principal and M. E. Thodes and T. M. Nash as secretaries, are held and firmly bound into his Excellency Howell Cobb, Governor of said state for the time being, and his successors in office, in the sum of three thousand dollars, to be paid to the said Howell Cobb, Governor of said state, and his successors in office, for which payment will and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, and each and every one of them, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated this 23d day of January 1852.
Whereas the above bound Charles F. Bruckner was on the fifth day of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and fifty two, elected clerk of the Inferior Court of said County of Walker, in said state, Now if the said Charles F. Bruckner shall will and truly do and perform all and singular the duties required of him by virtue of his said office of Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Walker as aforesaid and according to law, the trust reposed in him, then the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and Virtue.
C F Bruckner Seal
M. E. Rhodes Seal
Thomas M. Nash Seal
Listed & approved by
D. Stewart J.I.C.
A. L. Barry J.I.C.
Daniel Gartman J.I.C.
Recorded this 13th day of Febry 1852
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William White
The above a fac simile of the signature of William White.
Wm. R. Huntt
D.C.G.
Page 113

Comptroller Genrl's Office
Columbia April 30th 1856
I hereby certify that the name of "William White" as it appears upon the thin slip of paper hereunto annexed, is as near fac-simile as I have been able to make it, from the signature of sd. William White as it appears to an "Order" given by him in favor of "Saml. Smith": which said order is filed among the accounts belonging to "Book X. No 2433" and now in this office.
No Seal of Office
Given under my hand
Wm. R. Huntt
Dep. Comp. Genl.
Page 114

Adairsville Cass County Ga. 28th July 1848.
Dear Dir
Inclosed you have the Declaration of Mr. Newton White Together with the Compt. Genl. Certificate & the affidavit of Old Captain William Grant.
Those papers should have been forwarded sooner but for the fact that they have been detained with a view to procure further parroll proof in support. of the Claim from Union Dist So. Carolina but the old soldiers all being Decst. it cannot now be made we can therefore only expect an allowance for the time proven by Capt. Grant which is sixteen months service.
There can be no doubt but that Wm. White served more than twice that length of time from the repeated accounts given of his services, in his lifetime, in the presence of his son. but the difficulties of makeing Proof at this late period Places it out of the question to reach the extent of his services.
His reputation as a soldier is well certified by the Magistrate before whom Capt Grants affidavit is taken, as you will see the Magistrate was long acquainted with him.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Elisha King

Pls ans to me at this Office

Col J. L. Edwards Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Page 115

William White
Page 116

Comptroller General's Office
Columbia May 23d. 1856
I hereby certify that the name of William White as it appears on the thin slip of paper hereunto annexed, is about as near a fac simile of the signature of William White as I have been able to make from his signature as it appears to his Order, in favor of "Capt. Jas. Woodson": which said order appears to have been intended to cover Indent "No 3191.X" as well as that of 3190.X.
No Seal of Office
Given under my hand
Wm. R. Huntt
Dep. Comp. Genl.
Page 117

Lib X No. 3190
Issued 3d July 1786 to Mr Wm White to two pounds 8 / 6 ¾ Stg, for Militia duty in Brandons Regt. pr. acct. audited
Principal L 2.8.6 ¾
Interest 5.4
No. 112
State of South Carolina
To William White
For Militia duty in Brandons Regt. before & since the fall of Charleston for Andersons Return
Amtg to currency (Say Bal) L17.0.0
Stg. 2.8.6 ¾
[illegible]

Compl. Genls. Office
Columbia So. Carolina
7 Jany 1834
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy from Indent Book X. 3190 & also of the account upon which said Indent was issued
Given under my hand-There being no seal of office
Wm. F. Arthur
For Compt. Genl.
Page 118

Memorandom of Indents forwarded 18th March 1854, Book K. No 287. Issued 22nd Janry 1785. to William White for 30L 14S 3½D Sterling for Continental & Militia Use in 1780 as per Acct audited Principal L. 30.14.3½ Anl. Int L 2.3.0.
State of So Carolina
To William White
For 150 days as a soldier under Capt McClury at 20 / per day L 150.0.0
For one for Bay horse valued at 60.0.0
For 4 Beby at L.13. each 54.0.0
Add one Beef Mare 13.0.0
Currency L 275.0.0
Stg 39.5.8 ½
Deduct amt of Bay Horse 8.4.5
L 30. 14. 3 ½

Lib Y No. 1000
Issued 20th Jan 1786 to Mr William White Jr for L 44 17/1 Stg for Militia duty in 1780 1781 and 1782 per act audited
Principal L 44. S17 D 1½
Interest L 2.2.9
No 98
The State of So Carolina
To William White Jr Dr
1780 to 1781 from 1st of Nov to 28th July
For duty done under the command of Col David Hopkins as a Militia Man To 245 days at 10/ Old currency per day L 122.10.0
From Aug 23d 1781 to 11th Sept 1782
For duty done under the above command in the same capacity
To 383 day 10 / old Currency pr day L 191.10.0
314.0.0
44.17.1 ½
The above mentioned duty was duly performed
Certified pr me D Hopkins
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A.
William White Jr.
Georgia
filed April 10, 1854

Evans & Fant
Page 120

A
Lib Y No. 1000
Issued 20th Jan 1786 to Mr. Wm White Jr for forth four pounds 17/1 Stg for Militia duty in 1780, 1781 and 1782 per acct audited
Principal L 44.17.1½
Interest L 3.2.9
No 98
The State of So. Carolina
To William White Jr Dr
1780 to 1781 from 1st of Nov to 28th July
For duty done under the command of Col David Hopkins as a Militia Man To 245 days at 10/ Old currency per day L 122.10.0
From Aug 23d 1781 to 11th Sept 1782
For duty done under the above command in the same capacity
To 383 day 10 / old Currency pr day L 191.10.0
314.0.0
44.17.1 ½
The above mentioned duty was duly performed
Certified pr me D. Hopkins

So. Carolina 96 District appeared Wm. White Jr. & Made oath that the above account of three hundred & fourteen pounds old currency is justly due him
Sworn to before me this 24 Augt. 1785
Charles Sims J.P.
Page 121

L 314.0.0
L 44.17.1 ½
Exd. J. [illegible]

Compt. Genls. Office
Columbia So. Carolina
7 Jany 1854
I hereby certify that foregoing to be a true copy from Indent Book Y page 1000 & also of the account upon which said Indent was issued.
Given under my hand, there being no seal of office
Wm. F. Arthur
For Compt. Genl.
Page 122

A.
Fac similes of signatures of of William White from Comptroller's Office.
Georgia
Page 123

Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia So. Ca. February 12th 1855.
It is hereby certified that the following are exact fac similes as near as I can take them of the several signatures of William White in the different accounts in his name viz
1st in acct No 617. Book 2 as follows
"William White"
2d to his receipt to aforesaid accounts.
"William White"
3d to his receipt No. 138 Book S.
William White
4th to his order in favor of Samuel Smith No 2433 Book X.
William White
The aforesaid Account, Receipts and order on file in this Office.
For Comptroller General
P.S. Jacobs
Deputy.
(No Seal of Office)
Page 124

State of South Carolina
Pendelton County
Know all Men by these presents that I William White of the State and county aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of for hundred dollars to me in hand paid by Newton White of of the same State and County have bargained and sold and by these presents do bergen and sell unto the said Newton White one negrow [Negro] wench called Silve which I do hereby warrant and forever Defend unto the said Newton White his heirs and assings for Ever and clame from all incumberment
Witness my hand and sel the twenty third day of April one thousand Eight hundred and twenty seven
William White
James Swilling
William Swilling

State of Georgia
Walker County
This day personally came before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the State & County aforesaid Newton White a Citizen of said County and a creditable witness and after being duly sworn declares upon his Oath that his Father William White for whose services he is now claiming a Pension, made & Executed to him the foregoing Bill of sale that it is drawn up by himself and subscribed in his own hand writing, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, is genuine
Newton White
Sworn to and subscribed Before me after the same was Read aloud to affiant and by him understood before sworn to and subscribed this 3rd day of March 1855.
Jas. H. Rogers J P
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State of Georgia
Walker County
I Charles F. Bruckner Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that James H. Rogers Esquire whose genuine and affixed signature appears to the within affidavit and before whom the said affidavit was taken, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due and should be given to all his official acts as Justice of the peace.
Given under my hand and official signature and Seal of Office at Office in the Town of Lafayette, the County and State foresaid, this third day of March 1855
Charles F Bruckner
Clerk I.C.