Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 252, Harmon Hopper, N.C.
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service 
N.C. (handwritten) 
Hopper, Harmon or Harman Sarah (handwritten)
number
 W.252 (handwritten)
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25483
East Tennessee
Harmon Hopper
Clairborn in the State of Tennessee 
he was a private in the core commanded by Captain Cole
of the rgt commanded by Col Moore in the N Carolina
line for 6 months & [?] days
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Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 21 Dollars 55 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Jany 1834 and 
Pensioner Tazwell
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[$] 53.88
Arrears to the 4th of Sept  
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 10.77
$64.65
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Aot June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl Boyd, Clerk
Book E Vol. 7 Page 46

[Opposite page]
? to U. Graham
Nov. 18th 1845
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[top & side edges are torn]

5220
5220
Tennessee
Sarah Hopper
widow of Harmon Hopper
Col Moore N.C.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 21 Dollars 55 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Nov '49
and sent to James N McAnally
Beans Station
Grainger County
Tennessee

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848,
Page 291 Vol. 3

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NC

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Nancy Robinson
October 5, 1855

Date of death
not an AB
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September the 8th 1855
To the commissioner of Pension
Sir I made a declaration for the purpos of obtaing an avarage of Pension that was said to to be due my Father Harmon Hopper, Deceased, for his Revolutionary Survices he drew $21.55 its preminum have been [both words crossed out] My Mother also put up 
a claim in order to obtain the arrears that might Be Due for the survices a fore said and She has since died. D.B. McVay of Claiborne County was acting as agent for Both me and my mother in her lifetime but  McVay having left our country without giveing me any Information what was done in that case I therefor Respectfully Request you to inform 
me what was done in that case
Yours Respectfully
Nancy Robinson
daughter and heir at Law
of Harmon Hopper Deceased
address me at the head of Brron Claiborne County Tennessee
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.
State of Tennessee 
Claiborne County

On this 29th day of August 1845, personally appeared before Levi Gowin[Goin] a justice of the peace, for said County, Sarah Hopper a resident of the County of Claiborne and the State of Tennessee, aged eighty-two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, makes the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, that she is the widow of Harmon Hopper, who, as well as she recollects, was a private in Militia of North Carolina in the Revolutionary War, but that the particulars of his service she cannot state, but refers to a declaration heretofore made by the said Harmon Hopper, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832, and which declaration the presence is on file in the Office of the Commissioner of pensions and the same will give as she believes a correct statement of the Revolutionary services of her deceased husband. She states that a pension was granted to her said husband upon his said application, of as she thinks of twenty one dollars and fifty five cents per annum And she asks that the declaration here fired to may be taken as a part of his statement. She further states and declares that she was married to the said Harmon Hopper on the thirtieth day of August in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty three that her husband, the aforesaid Harmon Hopper, died on the 28 day of February 1844, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as [will more(?)]
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fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed or herewith exhibited. 
Sworn to an subscribed on the day and year above written, before me 
Levi Goin 
Justice of the Peace for Claiborne County State of Tennessee 
Claiborne County ⎬
Sarah (her mark) Hopper

 I, Levi Goin a Justice of the Peace for said County, do certify that Hopper who made the above declaration before me is and was at the time of making the same, unable from or by reason age and bodily infirmity, to attend in person any Court of Record in said County for the purpose of making the same. That I am personally acquainted with her, and are acquainted with her character in the neighborhood and County where she resides, and that she is a person entitled to full credit and confidence and oath Given under my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of August 1845 
Levi Goin
Justice of the Peace

The name Nancy as above was stricken out and Sarah inserted before this instrument was signed
Levi Goin J.P.
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State of Tennessee
Washburn County

Personally appeared Richard Harper before me John Easley a justice of the peace for said county, and who being first duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, in the form of law, deposeth and saith- Next he will remember Harman Hopper and Sarah Hopper in Orange County, North Carolina, and that he was acquainted with them and their character there, that they were both members of the Baptist Church in good standing in society, and that they  were known and reputed to be persons of good character and passed for and lived together as husband and wife, and had the reputation of being married to and with each other.  He further states that they raised a family of children of good character and standing. He further states that he has been honorably acquainted with said Harmon Hopper and Sarah Hopper for a considerable number of years since their removal to this county and that they have always borne a good character and standing in society, that Harmon Hopper is reported to have died some time ago and left Sarah his widow still living and he believes since Harmon Hopper to have been a pensioner of the United States for  Revolutionary Services - He further states that from the character of Sarah Hopper, she is entitled to full faith and credit  on [illegible].
Sworn to and subscribed before me Sept 6th, 1846
             my 
Richard x Harper 
            mark
John Easley              Seal
J.P. for Claiborne County, Tenn
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State of Tennessee
Clairborne County
Personally appeared Willis Harper, before on John Easley, a Justice of the Peace in and for the country aforesaid, and the said Willis Harper being first sworn by me upon the Holy Gospels of God, to speak the truth, deposeth(?) and saith as follows, to wit. That he will remember Herman Hopper and Sarah Hopper in Orange County North Carolina, and that he is acquainted with them and their character there, that they were persons of good moral character and as well as he remembers were reported to be members of the Baptist Church in good standing in the church and that they there lived together and passed in the community as husband and wife, have the reputation of being married to and with each other. He further states that they raised a family of children of good character. He further states that since his removal to this county he has known the said Harman Hopper and Sarah Hopper, for a great number of years and that they continued to and still do have a good character, and that said Harmon Hopper is reported to have died sometime since, and also reported to be a pensioner of the United States for Revolutionary Services. He further states that from the character of the present applicant Sarah Hopper, she is entitled to full faith and credit on oath.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 3 day of September 1845
[Signed]: 
Willis Harper
John Easley, Justice of the Peace for Clairborne County
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Tennessee
County of Clairborne
On this 17th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three [September 17, 1833] personally appeared in open court, before the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for Clairborne County in the State of Tennessee (the same being a court of record and possessing the power of fine and imprisonment.) now sitting Harmon Hopper, a resident of Clairborne County in the State of Tennessee, aged seventy three [73] years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th of June 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following married offices and served as herein stated.
That in the early part of the year 1787, he entered service of the United States of America (he thinks it was in the month of February) in the county of Caswell in the state of North Carolina - as a volunteer in the militia service for three months. He entered the service under Captain Cole, in whose company he served during the three months, Jeremiah [illegible] - the names of his other company officers, he cannot recollect by reason of his age and the frailness of his memory. He states that the regiment in which he served and to which he was attached was commanded by Colonel More - and Major Donahoe from Caswell Courthouse he was marched to Hillsborough, a distance of about eighteen miles from Hillsborough he was marched immediately after the [illegible] up to the high rock ford upon [illegible] river, from there he was marched a creek called the Alamantz [Alamance Creek]-where he was taken sick and [illegible] to go home upon furlough, he was absent about one week, when he again joined the army at the encampment in Guilford County, after the battle commonly known as the battle at Guilford, which was fought while he was sick and on furlough, in about five days, after rejoining the army he was honorable discharged at the encampment of the army in Guilford County in the state of North Carolina-and received his discharge in writing from his Captain Josiah Cole - which he had lost many years ago. During this three months service, he knew Capt [Captain] Lee, Col. [Colonel] Washington, served under their command and with their regular forces, he also frequently during this three months service [illegible] General Greene - he states that
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by reason of his age and the frailness of his memory he does not recollect the names of any other regular officers, or the number of any of the Regiments with which he served during this three months herein.
He further states that afterwards in the month of July as he verily believes the day of the month he could not recollect, in the year 1787 at Caswell Courthouse in the State of North Carolina he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the militia service after the under the United States under Captain Dickinson, he can not by reason of his age and loss of memory remember the names of any others of his Company & field officers, [illegible] Captain Dickinson, Col [Colonel] More the same as who commanded in his first service and Major Mahenc - Genl. [General] Rutherford and Genl [General] Burler Commanded. He states that he was marched from Caswell Courthouse to Lindley's Mills upon a creek called Alamantz [Alamance] in Orange Country in the state of North Carolina,  where a battle was fought by the American forces on our side and the Tories upon the other side, which resulted in the defeat of the Tories - in this battle this declarant was engaged upon the side of the American forces - he was marched immediately in pursuit of the defeated and retreating Tories, but was unable to come up with [illegible] - he was marched to Fayetteville in North Carolina, where the army or forces were encamped near Fayetteville on the opposite side of the river for about three weeks - From Fayetteville he was marched down to near a place called the Raft Swamps where the army had a small engagement with some Tories -where a few of the Tories were killed, and the balance made their escape on the part of the Americans one man was wounded. From this place we were marched to the bridge near Wilmington on [illegible] River - where this declarant remained with the army during the balance of his three months and two weeks over - and after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Little York [Yorktown?], he with the [illegible] of the forces were discharged - He received an honorable discharge from his Captain Dickinson in writing which he lost many years since. During this tour of duty, he did not serve with any of the Continental regiments or officers - the whole force with which he served or was appointed during this three month tour was the Militia of North Carolina. He states that he cannot with much certainty remember the month that he entered the service, he has stated them from his best recollection - and he cannot recollect the days of the month. He states that he was born in Faquar[?] [possibly Fauquier] County in the State of Virginia
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In this month of April 1760. That he has nno record of his age.
That at this time he "was called into"[crossed out] entered the service, he resided in ____ County in the state of North Carolina, that imidiately [sic] after the close of the Revolutionary war he moved from (illegible) County in about (illegible) to (illegible) River  (illegible) County in the same state, where he resided about two years, when he moved to Claiborn County Tennessee "which" [crossed out] has since and at present resides Declarant states that it is impossible for him to produce his discharges as they are lost, - he has no documentary evidence to prove his services herein set forth. We know of no person by whom he can prove any portion of the above service, except John Murphy - He would state the names of the following persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution -, Col. Matthew (illegible), John Rick, Elijah Harp - and Revd Wm Williams. He herby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension (illegible) except the present and declares that is name is not on the pension roll of the agency if any State
Sworn to and (illegible)
this 17th day of September 1833
Benj F Cloud 
We Joseph Neil a clergyman, residing in Claiborne County Tennessee and William Hooper residing in the same county and state, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Harmon Hopper who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we are concur in that opinion.

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[Signed]:
Joseph Neil
William Hooper

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Sworn to in open court
the 17th Sept 1833
Benj F Cloud clk
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And the said court to hereby declare their opinions, after the investigations of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that ______             [crossed out] who has signed the above certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Claiborne County, Tennessee, and that _______                who has also signed the same is a resident in said County and State, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

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I, Benjamin F. Cloud, clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for Claiborne County Tennessee, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Harmon Hopper for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and and public seal of office, at office in Lafayette, the 17th, day of September 1833.
Benj F Cloud ___
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27.171

Harmon Hopper
Claiborne Co.
Ten.

j
from 1781 private
6 months & 14 days
$21.55/100

Harmon Hopper
Farewell,
Ten
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,

Sir:
The evidence is support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive the objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them, and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the Service of Harmon Hopper
Period when the service was rendered | Duration of the claimant's service Years|Months|Days | Rank of the claimant | Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service | Proof by which the declaration is supported

Feb 1781 | 3 months | Pr | Cap Cole Col Moore | 73 N.C. | Traditionary & witness not certified to be credible by the court see notes

July 1781 | 3 months | 16 days| Pr | Cap Dickinson Col Moore | 

I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
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2
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 
DECLARATION, 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of County of } ss.
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory, or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers: 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A.B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
T [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of [blank] &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, [blank] Clerk of Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be at-tempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be ex-pected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
     The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
      1. Where and in what year were you born?
      2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
      3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
     4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
     5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served ; such Continental and Militia Regiments  as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
     6. {To a Soldier.   {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
        {To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can tes-tify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
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April 17, 1939
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mrs. Grace B. Hopper                   Harmon Hopper
[unknown] Beech                          W. [unkown]
Dearborn, Michigan                      BA-J/MLS

Dear madam:
 
You are furnished herein the complete record of Harmon Hopper as shown in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 252?, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Harmon Hopper was born in April, 1760, Fauquier County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given. 

While residing in Caswell County, North Carolina, Harmon Hopper volunteered in February, 1781, served as private in Captain Josiah Cole's company, Colonel Moore's North Carolina regiment, length of service three months; he stated that he was home sick at the time of the battle of Guilford. He enlisted in July, 1781, served in Captain Dickinson's company, Colonel Moore's North Carolina regiment, was in the battle of Lindley's Mill and in an engagement with some Tories at Raft Swamp and served three months and two weeks.

Immediately after the close of the war, he moved from Caswell to Orange County, North Carolina where he lived ten years, then moved to Claiborne County, Tennessee, where he was living when he was allowed pension on his application, executed September 17, 1833. He died 28 or 29, 1844, place not stated.

Harmon Hopper married August 30, 1785 or 1784?, in Caswell County, North Carolina, Sarah  ___; the date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown.

Soldier's widow, Sarah Hopper, was allowed pension on her application executed August 29, 1945, at which time she was aged eighty-two years and a resident of Claiborne County, Tennesse. It was stated that the soldier and his wife, Sarah, were born members of the Baptist Church.
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     Harmon Hopper and his wife, Sarah, reared a family of children. The only names given were the  son, Jesse, born October 18, 1787, and a daughter, Nancy Robinson who, in 1855, was residing in Claiborne County, Tennessee.  She did not give the date of her birth or given name of her husband. Jesse Hopper states that he was the second child of his parents and that he had a sister, born March 16, 1785, but did not state her name.
     In 1835, one William [Hooper?] was living in Claiborne County, Tennessee, and testified that he knew well the soldier, Harmon Hopper of his neighborhood, but did not state any relationship. In 1845, one Willis Hopper made affidavit in Claiborne County, Tennessee, that he was acquainted with Harmon and Sarah Hopper in Orange County, North Carolina. One Richard Harper or Hopper (his signature by mark both ways) was a resident of Claiborne County, Tennessee, in 1845, aged eighty-six years, of Caswell County, North Carolina, and knew Harmon and Sarah Hopper as man and wife prior to 1785. He stated that he moved to Claiborne County, Tennessee, and sometime after his removal, said Harmon and Sarah moved to the same county where they were residing at the time of Harmon Hopper's death. He stated that his (Richard's) first child was born January 21, 1785. He did not give the name of this child, nor the name of his wife, nor was the relationship of Willis and Richard Harper to the family of the soldier, or to each other shown. 
     In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of Sarah Hopper, you should write to the Comptroller? General, General Accounting office, Records Division, this city, and site the following date: Sarah Hopper, widow of Harmon, certificate #5220, issued November 28, 1849, rate $21.55 per annum, commended March 4, 1848, Act of February 2, 1848. Tennessee Agency.

                  Very truly yours


                   A.D. HILLER
                   Executive Assistant
                   to the Administrator



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[Left Side of Page]
1938 - Mar. 17 - [unknown]
Grace B. Hopper
1939.Apr.17 Mrs. Grace B. Hopper

[Right Side of Page]
252
Widow, &c.
File No. 252
Sarah Hopper
widow of 
Harmon
Priv, Rev, War
Act: Feb. 2nd 1848
Index:-Vol.A, Page 340
[Arrangement of 1870]
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No 6582
Sarah Hopper
[illegible]
[Sent to?] H Graham Nov 12. 1845 
W R Evans Nov 12 [illegible]
[illegible] Hon Wm Cocke June 27th 1848. 
James McAnally May 31 49 
Act 4 July 1836
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8700       K
Tennessee
Sarah Hopper
widow of Harmon
who was a Private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 21 Dollars 55
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 29th day Febry 1844

Certificate of Pension issued
the 28th day of Nov ' 49
and sent to 
J. R. McAnally
Begns Station
Grainger County 
Tennessee

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June
17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol 2 Page 192
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 Harmon Hopper, Claiborn Co. Ten. Act 7 June 37
$21.55 per anun }

To what ___ was he last paid s.
W .C.A
Pension office
___ 24 1849}

Died 29 Feb 1844 SS: in file
W. T.
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20th Oct 1849

Sir
I enclose additional evidence of the marriage of Harmon & Sarah Hopper if satisfactory  Please forward certificate to my address  Beans Stations Tennessee  
I am with due respect your 
Obt Servant
J K McAnally

Col J L Edwards
Washington City DC
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Taznell, Tennessee, Jany 1st 1834

Sir
I enclose you my pension declaration amended in the particular pointed out together with the printers circular -
Direct to Gray Garrett, Taznell Ten.
Harmon Hopper

J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Tennessee Claiborne County - County Court
This day satisfactory evidence was provided to the court to show that Sarah Hopper, widow of Harmon Hopper, who is an applicant for a pension under the laws of the United States, and who made her declaration before Levi Goin Esq. a Justice of the Peace for this county and a member of this court, is so aged and infirm that it is impossible for her to attend court to make her declaration, and that said Sarah Hopper is a credible person and entitled to full faith and credit on oath, and that she resides at the distance of between ten and eleven miles from the courthouse. And it is ordered to be certified that Levi Goin is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Claiborne in the state of Tennessee and a member of this court by virtue of his office, and that he is fully authorized and was at the time said declaration was made before him to administer the oath in that behalf and that the court confirms the same. Thos. J. Johnson, Clerk of the County Court of said county, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record in my office. Given under my hand and seal of Office, this 11th day of December 11th 1845 Thos J Johnson Clerk of [illegible] Court
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State of Tennessee 
Claiborne County 
Before this subscriber a Justice of the Peace [illegible] for said county personally appeared Richard Harper a citizen of said county aged 86 years and makes oath that he became acquainted with Harmon Hopper and Sarah his wife (now an applicant for a pension) a great many years ago in North Carolina. [illegible] that they then lived on Hico Creek in Orange or the edge of Casewell County (not certain which county) that the [llegible} Harmon and Sarah Hopper then lived and cohabited together as husband and wife and acknowledged each other as such and were recognized as such by their neighbors this first acquaintance with said Harmon & Sarah was before this affiant was first married and must have been prior to 1785  This affiant can set said acquaintance before 1785 from this fact tharby this witness refering to his own family record of his own childrens ages it shows his first child to be born on the 21st of January 1785 that some times after this affiant first knew the said Harmon and Sarah Hopper this affiant removed to Claiborne County Tennessee and some years after Mr. Harmon Hopper and Sarah also removed to the same county and there lived together as husband and wife to the day of said Hoppers death
Sworn and subscribed this 25th day of September 1849 Before me John M Burch
Richard [illegible] Harper [illegible]
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I certify that Richard Harper the within affiant is personally known to me and is entitled to full credit given under my hand this 25th day of September 1849 John M Burch seal Justice of the peace for Claiborne County'

State of Tennessee Claiborne County 
I Thomas J Johnson clerk of the county court of said county do humbly certify that John M Burch whose name appears to the a [illegible] is an acting Justice of the Peace in and from said county duly commissioned and qualified as the law directs and full faith and credit is and aught to be given to all of his official acts as such Given under my hand and seal of office at office in Tazewell the 13th of October 1849 
Thos. J. Johnson [illegible]
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DECLARATION

In order to obtain the benefit of the act Congress passed July 7th, 1838 granting half pay pensions to certain widows. 

State of Tennessee
Claiborne County. On this 16th day of October 1848 personally appeared before me Levi Goin an acting justice of the Peace for said County. Sarah Hopper a resident of S? county aged 84 years. Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 granting half pay and pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of Harmon Hopper a dead solider of the Revolution and late a pensioner of the US and recd his pay at the agency at Knoxville East Tennessee at the rate of twenty one dollars per annum. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Harmon Hopper in the year 1786 (she cannot tell what time of year in Caswell County [unknown] by publication that her husband the afore said Harmon Hopper died on the last day of February 1844.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time of the above marriage and knows of no person to prove the same. Sworn and subscribed tge day and year last above written Before me.
[unknown]

[Bottom Left Corner]
Levi Goin
Justice of the Peace

[Bottom Right Corner]
Sarah (her mark) Hopper
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State of Tennessee Claibourne County
I Levi Goin an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid do certify that Sarah Hopper who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration is an old infirm person unable to get before the court of this county. 
I further certify that she is a person of unquestionable veracity and credit Given under my hand and seal this 16th day of October 1848.
[Signed Bottom Corner) -Levi Goin

State of Tennessee
Clairbourne County
I Thomas J Johnson Clerk of the County Court of the State and County aforesaid do certify that Levi Goin Esq whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of the signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Elected Commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit should be attached to all his official as such, and that his signature appears to be his own proper hand writing
Given under me and and seal of Office at Office in Tazewell this 6th day of November AD 1848
Thos J Johnson
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[begin crossed out text] 
County Court
State of Tennysee 
Claibourne County
August Term 1848
Then was presented in open Court The declaration of Sarah Hopper taken before [blank space] Esq out of court for the approval of said Where upon the said court do fully approve the same
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Office in Tazewell this [blank] day of August AD 1848
Clerk of said Court
[end crossed out text]

State of Tennysee
Claibourne County
This 16th day of October 1848 personally appeared before me Levi Goin
Jessie Hopper aged 61 years thereof this instant and makes oath that he was well acquainted with Harmon Hopper [illegible] that he departed this life on the 28th day of February 1844 he further swears that he is the second child of the said Harmon Hopper and Sarah Hopper and that he has often seen His fathers family record and that he copied the record of his age in his own record from his father (which was in the handwriting of Thos Coal) and that said original record has since been destroyed but that the said copy preserved by him shows that he was born on the 18th day of October 1787 he further swears that he has one sister older than himself who according to Record was born on the 16th day of March 1785
Sworn and subscribed this 16th day of October 1848
Before me Levi Goin Justice of the peace
Jesse [+ enclosed by the words "his mark"] Hopper
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State of Tennysee Claiborne County
I Levi Goin an acting justice of the peace for county aforesaid do certify that Jessie Hopper is a man of unquestionable veracity and truth  Given under my hand and seal
October the 16th 1848
Levi Goin [illegible mark]
Justice of the peace
for S [illegible] County

State of Tennysee Claiborne County
Nov.r Term 1848
This day was presented in open court the declaration of Sarah Hopper of said county taken before Levi Goin Esq. (a member of said court) out of court for the approval of the same and the said Court do hereby approve of the said Acts of the [illegible] Levi Goin Esq in said case of the aforesaid Sarah Hopper
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand an affixed the seal of my office at office in Tazewell 
This 6th day of November AD 1848
Thos. J. Johnson
Clerk
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No. 9684
Sarah Hopper
Wd of Harmin
Trn
Act March 43 and 
17 June 44
Mamn before 1794
Hist aud 29 Fey 44
As Mo. 2155 pr am
Mr 29 7 July 44 to 4 March 48
Admd Act 2 July 48
$21.55 pr am
[illegible] 4 March 48
J. K McAnally
Beans Station Grainger Co Tnn
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6582

Rd Oct 20/45
Sarah Hopper
Ten
Act 4 July 36
Rejected ____ 36
Adm_ Act 13 March 43
817 June 44

H. Graham
Tazewell
Ten:
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State of Tennessee
Claiborne County
I, Thomas J. Johnson
Clerk of the County of Said County in said State, do
certify that Levi Gore and John Easley, Esquire, whose
names appear to the foregoing certificate, do and each
of them were at the time of signing the same respecting
acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County of
labored in said State of Tennessee, and both and
each of them duly Commissioned and sworn to act
as such, and were and ane members of the County
Court of said County, duly authorized to administer
respectively
several signatures are
the own proper hand writing of each of them
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and public seal of
Office at Office in Tazewell
in said County this 4th day of
October 1845

Thos. J. Johnson
Clk of said
County Court
[court seal]
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Rutledge Tennessee
Nov. 23
Col IL? Edwards Court of Pension 
[Right Side above third line] Free

[Top Right Corner]
Dec 2, 48
Sarah Hopper
James The ?
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November The 22nd 1848

Sir
The [unknown] is the Declaration of Sarah Hopper for a pension under the acts of 4.3.4 please examine it [crossed out] and send answer to me.
Beans Station Grainger County Tennessee
Your Obt. Servant
James K.McAnally
J.L. Edwards Esq
Washington City
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6582
Oct 20 1845
Sarah Hopper
July 4 1896

L. Edwards Esq or Successor
Commissioner of Petisions
Washington
City
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Tazewell Ten 11 [illegible] 1840

Dear Sir
Inclosed is the petition of Sarah Hopper, for a pension, her husband Harmon Hopper, was placed on the pension list Law of June 1832. This widow Hopper is respectable, has been sick and bedridden for some time. Her declaration is entitled to full credit, herself & husband having lived in this county for many years, and her statement can be fully sustained by the best testimony if needed, but poor and destitute. I hope sir this will receive your early attention. 

Respectfully you're obedient sevt. [servant]
An. Graham

Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
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State of Tennessee
Claiborne County

On this 17th day of September in the year 1833, appeared in open court before the court of Please and Quarter Sessions for the county of Claiborne in Tennessee Mary Ann Neil residing in said county aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following certificate that in the Revolutionary War she resided Caswell County North Carolina that she was well acquainted with Harman Hopper who has subscribed and sworn to the accompanying declaration for a pension the early in the year 1781 the said Harman Hopper entered the service of the United States in said County of Caswell North Carolina for the term of 3 months and that he left there with the troops and was about three months at the end of which time he returned that the said Harmon Hopper again entered the service on another 3 months tour it was absent for that length of time at the expiration of which he returned that she is still well acquainted with said Harmon Hopper and resides in the same county.

Mary Ann Neil
[hand drawn 'X'] her mark

Sworn to in open court this 17th day of Sept. 1833 
[illegible] clk
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And the said Court do hereby certify that the within named Mary Ann Neil is a creditable woman that they believe her to be aged 77 years and that her statement is entitled to credit and that she is a resident of Claiborne County Tennessee. 

I Benjamin Fleland, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Claiborn County Tennessee do you hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original certificate of Mary Ann Neil in the matter of the application of Harmon Hopper for a pension in testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and a fixed the public seal of office at office in Tazewell the 17th day of September 1833

Benj. Fleland Clk
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State of Tennessee Claiborne County 

Personally appeared Richard Harper before me John Easley a Justice of the Peace for said County and being first duly sworn by me according to law upon the Holy Gospel of God deposes and saith , as [illegible], to wit;  that at least 57 years ago he was acquainted with Harmon Hopper in the state of North Carolina and that Sarah Hopper and said Harmon were there were living together as husband and wife and even repeated and held to be such and were both members of the Baptist Church in good standings this deponent believes. He further states that he is certain of it not being less than 57 years from the fact deponent not being married at the time of his first acquaintance with them, and afterwards having married, and had children whose ages he has examined. He states that where this matter was first named to him he answered something like forty years, which was done without reflection, but upon going home and making an examination of the ages of his own children he became satisfied of the fact as above stated. He further states that he afterwards moved to this County and State and the after he came here the same Harmon Hopper and the same Sarah Hopper came to this County where they still lived together as husband and wife until the death of the said Harmon Hopper; deponent believes that said Harmon Hopper is the same who was a revolutionary pensioner. He has known them ever since they came to this County. He further states that he believes said Sarah Hopper to be a woman whose statements are entitled to credit.

The words "Sarah Hopper and said Harman" were interlined before signed.

Richard Hopper  [mis-copied in original - should be Harper]
[handwritten] 'X' his mark

Sworn to & subscribed beforoe me this 4th day of March 1846

[signature]
John Easley
Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee 
Claiborne County

I, John Easley, a Justice of the Peace for said County, do certify that Richard Harper whose deposition was taken before me as above, is of good character and standing in society, entitled to full faith and credit as a witness. Given under my hand and seal this 4th day of March 1846. 

John Easley 
Justice of the Peace for Claiborne County

State of Tennessee 
Claiborne County 

I, William Neil, the deputy clerk of the county court of Claiborne County do certify that John Easley before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and where certificate appears above is and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace for said County, commissioned and sworn to act as such and that his signature is in his own proper handwriting. I do further certify that both the signatures of the said John Easley appearing to two depositions heretofore taken, of Richard Harper and Willis Harper, are both in the proper handwriting of said John Easley. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and public seal of office, at office in Tazewell this 4th day of March 1846

William Neil D. Clk
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Tazewell, March 13th, 1846-
Sir,
I have been applied to by Mrs. Hopper to aid her about her pension, she being too old and infirm to see to business, and having seen your letter in which you expressed a doubt about the two signatures of John Easley being in the same handwriting. With regard to this matter I presume it will be sufficient to refer you to the Honorable Wm. M. Cocke, member of Congress from this District, who is well acquainted with John Easley and his handwriting and he will I have no doubt satisfy you on that point. I would also state that the whole proceedings have been written by me, and he will also no doubt satisfy you that no name would be placed to any document coming through me, except genuine and placed there by the person whose name it purports to be. The signatures of Mr. Easley alluded to, were written at different times, and all the difference is occasioned by the badness of our [faded] of the pens with which he wrote. I consider the inquiry however very proper, because the government might possibly be wronged by a name being improperly attached to a paper of the kind; and I know of no better way to satisfy you upon the matter than by a reference to W. Cocke, with whom I am well acquainted.
Yours respectfully
Walter R. Evans

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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The State of Tennessee
Claiborne County Court Offices and quarter sessions for said County _ December Term 1833.
     Whereas at appears, to our said court that upon the 17th day of September A.D. 1833, before our said court, Harmon Hopper, appeared personally, and made his declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of congress passed the 7th June 1832, and upon the making of said declaration, Joseph Neil a clergyman, residing in Claiborne County Tennessee, and William Hooper residing in the same county and state, did certify upon their oaths that, they were well acquainted with Harmon Hopper, who had subscribed and sworn to the said declaration, that they believed him to be seventy three years of age, that he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that they concurred in that opinion. And it also appearing that in making out the certificate of the court, the names of said Joseph Neil, a clergyman, and of William Hooper were omitted, by means where of the said declaration of the said Harmon Hopper hath been returned to him from the pension office of the War Department for amendment on the forgoing particular. Wherefore our said Court do hereby certify, that it appears to them that Joseph Neil who has signed the Certificate attached to the said declaration of said Harmon Hopper, is a clergyman resident in Claiborne County Tennessee, and that William Hooper who also hath signed the same, at the time of signing the same, and now are residents of said county and state, that were then and now reliable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
All of which is ordered to be certified.
In testimony where of Benjamin F Leland clerk of said court has him to set my hand and public seal of office at office in Faywell this 18th day of December 1833.
Benjamin F Leland Clerk
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February 25, 1938
U.S. Bureau of Pensions,
Washington D. C.

Gentlemen:
In the Revolutionary War there was a man named Harmon Hopper.

Did he receive a pension?
Where in North Carolina did he live?
Where did he move from there?
To whom was he married?
Have you a record of his children, what there names were, and how many?
Could you give me his number, Regiment, Company, and etc?
What office did he hold, if any?

Thank you very much for the information.

Sincerely yours,
Grace B. Hopper (signature)
Grace B. Hopper
Org. Regent Aquila Sturges
Chapter D. A. R.

G. B. Hopper 
22568 Beech
Dearborn
Michigan

Stamped: Received Mar 8 1939
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April 17, 1939
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Mrs. Grace B. Hopper
225__ Beech
Dearborn, Michigan

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request further information in regard to Aquila Sturges and Harmon Hopper whose records were furnished you October 2, 192_ , ad March 17, 193_, respectively.

The record of Aquila Sturges which was furnished you is that of the only soldier with that name on the Revolutionary War records of this office. The name of his father, whose record you desire, also, is not shown, nor that of his wife's father. In order to make a search for their records, their full names are essential and any other data you may possess, as a means of identifications. You request to know whether or not the name of the son of Harmon Hopper was correctly shown as Jesse in the report to you, as it is believed by some of his descendants that the name of that son was John.

The name was correctly reported Jesse, as shown in another report in regard to Harmon Hopper furnished you herewith, together with that of Aquila Sturges.

26.252

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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March 17, 1938
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Harmon Hopper W.252

Grace B. Hopper
22568 Beech
Dearborn, Michigan

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Harmon Hopper, of North Carolina.

The data which fellow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.252, based upon the military service in that war of Harmon Hopper.

Harmon Hopper was born in April, 176?0, in Fauquier County, Virginia. The names of his parents are not stated.

While residing in Caswell County, North Carolina, Harmon Hopper volunteered in February, 1781, served as a private in Captain Josiah Cole's Company, Colonel Moore's North Carolina Regiment, length of service, three months; he stated that he was [illegible] sick at the time of the battle of Guilford; he enlisted in July, 1781, served in Captain Dickinson's Company, Colonel Moore's North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Lindley's Mill and in an engagement with some Tories at Raft Swamp and served three months, and two weeks.
[handwritten in right margin] could not identify officers no battle of Raft. _____

Immediately after the close of the war, he moved from Caswell to Orange County, North Carolina, where he lived ten years, then moved to Claiborne County, Tennessee, where he was living when he was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 18[illegible].

He died February 28 or 29, 1844, place not stated.

The soldier married August 20, 1783 or 1784, in Caswell County, North Carolina, Sarah, date and place of her birth and names of her parents not shown.

Soldier's widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her applica-
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tion executed August 29, 1845, at which time she was aged eighty-two years and resided in Clairborne County, Tennessee. It was stated that both the widow and her husband were members of the Baptist Church.

Harmon and Sarah Hopper reared a family of children, only names given are son Jesse, born October 18, 17_7, and a daughter, Nancy Robinson, who, in 1855, was living in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She did not give the date of her birth or name of her husband. Jesse Hopper stated that he was the second child of his parents and that he had a sister, born March 16, 1785, but did not give the name of his sister.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Sarah Hopper, widow of Harmon Hopper (W.252), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Sarah Hopper, widow of Harmon Hopper
Certificate No. 5220
Issued November 28, 1849
Rate, $21.55 per annum
Commenced March 4, 18478
Act of February 2, 1848
Tennessee Agency

Very truly yours, 

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.