Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,263, William Garrard, S.C.
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S.C
Garrard, William
Garret
S. 32.263
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Illinois 31, 570
William Garrard
of Crawford Co. in the State of Illinois
who was a Private in the company command
by Captain Thomas of the Regt. command
by Col. Middleton in the S. Carolina
line for 7 months  Cerf No.
31570
Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Dec
1838 and sent to Hon.
Casey, H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep '38   185.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma '39    11.66
$196.66
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E.2 Vol. 8 Page 122

Set to Hon Z Casey Jan 22 1839
do to Hon. J. R. Poinsett, Sec. War
May 18. 1839-
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Illinois
Crawford County 

Crawford County Commissioners
Court Dec. term 1832
On this 4th day of Dec. 1832 personally appeared
and in open Court before the Crawford Co.
Commissioners Court now sitting
William Garrard
Serv - a resident of Crawford County & State of
Illinois aged seventy two years the first day of
January 1833 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 June 7th 1832. That he
entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers, and served as herein state &
that some time in May 1779 South Carolina
Chester County, he volunteered and performed a tour
of duty under Capt. Anderson Thomas - marched
through Waynesborough towards Santee. Thereby
order of Capt. Thomas returned back - making
tour of three months - in the year 1780 he was
called a second time by Capt. A. Thomas for the
time of three months & served about 40 days &
then ordered to return - after which I served
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a similar tour under the same capt & of the same year rendevoused at Hamptons quarter marched thence to Col John Waynes on little river thence through Waynesborough down towards the Congree river and there taken sick & left with Capt A Thomas sister a considerable time when recovered I could not hear of Capt Thomas & went down & joined Capt Thomas Parrot stationed there a considerable time by conent of Catp Parot returned home about the first of August 1780 In the year 1781 I was called out under Lieut West Donald in April marchd through Gransby stationed at Col Anckrums on Congry river for some time then joined Col Middletons regiment there crossd Congry river & marched down Congry Creek thence down & across Beaver Creek thence towards the Hutaw Springs thence back to Ancrans stationed there sometime thence on my return home attachd myself to the company under Lieut James Sims thence marchd over broad river to a place called dutch fork & stationed sometime at Col Adbem Sumers thence returned hom in August in the year 1782 was calld upon by Capt Amos Davis early in the spring march to orangeburgh Eddstow river thence towards Dodgster thence crossed four holes thence to santee river at which place I was stationed under Capt McCord from thence I returned home about the first of July He has no documentary evidence & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services and the one
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I have the affidavit of Absalom Humphries who is the only person by whom I can prove any of the above described services
1 I was born in Virginia Stafford County January 1st AD 1760
2 I have no record of my age
3 I lived in Chester county South Carolina when calld into service since which I have lived in South Carolina for about twenty years then moved to Georgia & lived there about 10 months then moved to Kentucky lived there about 4 years then moved to Illinois where I now live
4th [crossed out] He volunteered
5 majr Pearson Col Middleton the latter belonged to the United States Service
6 He recd no written discharge
7th Thomas Kenneday clergyman & Jesse Higgins are persons in my neighbourhood & who can testify to my veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid William his X mark Garrett
We Thomas Kennedy a clergyman residing in the county of Crawford and state of Illinois and
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Jesse Higgins residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Garrett Senr who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesd
Thomas Kennedy
Jesse his X mark Higgins
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 revolution soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that appears to the said court that Thomas Dunlap Senr who had signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Crawford aforsaid and that Jesse Higgins who has also signed the same is a resident in the said county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
John Boyd
James H Wilson
Asa Norton

I Edward H Piper clerk of the county commissioners court of Crawford county afored do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Garrett Senr for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of my office this 5th day of December 1832
Edw H Piper ck
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21272
William Garard Sen
Crawford Co
Illinois

Mcm papers number from
119 in red ink copied & sent to McGabey rec report
to bc war 18 May 1839

Return dep 

Edward H Piper clerk
Crawford Co
Illinois
Palestine
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office
22d April 1833
Sir
The evidence in 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 that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those 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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Wm Garard Sen Crawford Co Illinois

Period when the service was rendered /
Duration of the claimants service Years/months/days/ Rank of the claimant /
Names and rank of the Company officers under whom he served / Names and Rank of the General Field officers /Battles in which the applicant was engaged / Place of abode when he entered the service and age at the present period / Evidence by which the declaration is supported.

May 1779 / 3 months / Private / Capt A Thomas / / None / S Carolina / 72 years as of Jan 7 Chester Co S Carolina / Traditionary & Witness 
May 1780 / About 40 days / Private / Capt  Thomas / / None / S Carolina
Same year time not specified / / Private / Capt  Thomas Cap Parrot / / None / S Carolina
1781 / not specified /  Private / Lieu Donald & Sims / Col Meddleton / None / S Carolina
No date /  not specified / / Private / Capt  A Davis / / None / S Carolina


I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions
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Regulations under the act of June 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construted 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 trooper," "militia," and "volunteers," all ppersons 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 active military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteer.
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 law 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 aoth 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 sets forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officer; the time he left the service; (and if he served unde more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officer;) 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.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opnion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I  of the Court of  do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of  for pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this  day of  &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicant, 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  and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with  , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be  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 day 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 the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the  and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the  and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,  Clerk of the Court of  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of  for a pension.
in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal  of office, this  day of  &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 tendecy 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 ornot, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of this services of each person
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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 attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. 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 [] where do you live?
[] 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; succh Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
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 has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of this applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons, one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the nieghborhood to have been a Revolutioinary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subejct.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration to the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c)The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(e)The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For --- year --- months, and --- days, I served as is ---. For --- months and -- days, I served as a ---; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they are served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competant authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule is note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Joseph Rowan Esq.
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I hereby certify that I been intimately acquainted with William
Garrard son for a number of years, and worked for his
son who lives with him, and has often heard him
express himself with regard to whig and tory in
the revolutionary war, and always took the tory
side of the question, and boasted of the British
government, and one day at Mr Jesse Donnells
up and told that the whigs took him prisoner
and tied him on a young filley and turned
her loose and she ran under a stooping tree,
where he thought he should be killed, and
exclaimed in these word "may be I didn't
see lights" And I further testify that I
have heard not only the neighbors and that many
of them, but his own connection say repeatedly
that he was a tory in the old war, and never
heard the first person say the believed him a
whig and when it was rumoured that he was
about to apply for a pension it created a
general talk among they people, and numbers
would frequently say if old Garrard can get a
pension an old man may do the same
Given under my hand this 27th day of
February 1835 William Parrent
State of Illinois
Crawford County
Sworn and subscribed before me this 27
day of February 1855
William Wilson J.P.
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H. West's Deposition
Mr. Wm Garrard serv
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State of Illinois
Johnson County
This day personally appeared
Hezekiah West before me the
undersigned a justice of the peace in & for said
County & being solemnly sworn in due form of law
Deposeth & saith that he was personally acquainted
with William Garrard in South Carolina in Chester
County in the year 1782 - to the best of his recollection
& for several years afterwards - & that the
said William
Garrard now a citizen of Crawford County in the State of Illinois
was a Citizen of South Carolina & Lived in Bounds
of the same Colonals ridgement with this Deponant in 
the time of the Revolutionary War & in the Bounds
of Captain Anderson Thomases Company - as this Deponant
thinks & believes to the best of my recollection, and that
the said Wm Garrard was a soldier in the service of
the United States army in the Revolution & served one
tour in said ridgement vz Winns ridgement at the
same time & place with this Deponent - a part of
which tour was under the command of
Captain McCord
& Captain Frost together on Santee River at a place
called Lawrences ferry as this Deponent now beleives
but is not certain as to the name of said ferry -as it is
said by some to be Gillards ferry - but this Deponant
sayeth that let the name of the said ferry be what it
may - that tis the same place where the said Garrard served
in the United States army with this Deponant & at the
same time & under the same officers vz McCord & Frost
this he firmly & stedfastly believes because of several
circumstances named to him by said Garrard one is of
this Deponant saveing one of General Greens Regulars
from drowning in Santee at said ferry - another is that
of his catching a young aligator - another of the escape
of a certain prisoner from our custody while at Santee - 
& some other circumstances that confirms this Deponant
stedfastly in the belief that the said Garrard
was there at that time & did serve that tour - and
further this Deponant beleives was in the
year 1782 -
but it is not positive as to the Date & moreover this
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Deponant saith that he was Neighbour to said Wm.
Garrard for some years in Christian County in the State
of Kentuckey about the year 1809 & 1810 & that he
the said Garrand supported a good character both in
South Carolina & in Kentuckey - and also that he
was a friend to his country in the Revolution &
has continued so to Remain - & further this Deponent
saith that the said Wm. Garrard Citizen of Crawford County
(as the said Garrard states) is the same identical person
that this Deponent was acquainted with in South Carolina
in time of the Revolution & in Kentucky as
before mentioned - the said Garrard being now
present
with this Deponent in Johnson County.
Hezekiah West Deponant
State of Illinois
Johnson County

I certify that the above was sworn and to
and subscribed before me the under signed an
acting Justices of the peace in and for said County
on the 6th day of October 1834 and that I believe
the said Hezekiah West to be accredible witness
Given under my hand and seal this the 6th
day of October 1834
John Oliver J.P.

State of Illinois
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Revy
32263
INVALID.
File No. 32263
William Garrard
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 150
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cami Ill
June 19 1835
Sir
I have requested to state the character & standing of Frost Hail, Daniel Hail, Wilson Logow Alfred G Lagow A M Houston & John Vandeventer oaffiants in behalf of Wm Garrard an applicant to be placed on the Pension Roll from Crawford county in this state my knowledge of the two messers Hails is of a limited character though so for as it extends in such as to fully include a belief of their intere probity & uprightness with the four last gentleman I have been long and intimately acquainted
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and take great pleasure in saying they are gentlemen of high standing and incapable of either stateing or swearing to any thing but the truth
Respectfully yours
John Robinson

JL Edwards Esq
Comof Pen
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Hon J. M. Robinson
Senate Chamber
41
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House of Representatives
March 24th, 1836
Dear sir,
Yours of the 22nd [] has been duly received - I immediately handed your letter to General Rogers of South Carolina, together, with the papers of Mr. Garrad, for a pension, they have this moment been returned, to me, by General Rogers, who states, that he has examined the papers, and had written you the result he also states that if Mr. Garrad will inform him of any person in South Carolina who knew him in the Revolution he will attend to [] depositions for him - The papers are all recruits veterans.
Very respectfully your most obt. sert. 
Z. Casey
Genl. J.M. Robinson
Senate Chamber
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No 1____
Wm Garrard Sr
Act 32.
Hon. Z. Casey
HR

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State of Illinois
Shelby County this day appeared before me an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county Isaac Waggoner Seigner and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was intimetly acquainted with William Garrard Seigner of Chester county South Carolina this deponant deposith and saith that William Garrard Seignor did service in the United States army with this deponant in the year seventeen hundred and eighty under the command of Captain Andrew San Thomas and Wager Per son and Colonel Richard Winn cam mensed services at houstons yuaten under the above named officers on Broad River thence marched to howels pering on congaree river and there scured acct his tower and then serviced another tower under Lieutenant West Dowel in the year 1781 at unknown being on congaree River there secured an other tower under the command of Capt McCord and Capt Fragt at lowrances ferry and Santee River called by same gillands ferry let the name of the ferry be what it may but is the identical place where William Garrard Seignor did service with this deponent in the year 1782 William Garrard Seignor of Crafford county state of Illinois with this deponent in Shelby county state of Illinois do sactify that this is the identical same William Garrard Seignor that did serve with this deponant under the above named officers I do Sertify that Isaac Waggoner Seignare is a creditable witness and stands fair in society both of which and sate sworn to and subscribed to before me  given under my hand seal this 7th oct 1837
John Douthit J Peace Seal
Isaac Waggoner
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State of Illinois
Shelby County} SS
I Joseph Oliver clerk of the county commissioners court for the county of Shelby do hereby certify that John Dorethit Esquire whose signature appears subscribed to the within affidavit and whose hand wrighting I am well acquainted with was on the seventh day of October 1837 and is now an acting Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified to office, as appears from the records now in my office that full faith and credit is and of right ought to be Given to all of his official acts
In testimony whereof I do hereto set my name and affixed the seal at office of said court at Shelbyville this 9th day of October 1837
Isaac Waggoner
affitevit}
Jos Oliver clk
of said court
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State of Illinois
Crawford County
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting justice of the peace in and for said county William Garrard [illegible] and after being duly sworn according to law Deposes and saith that after hearing the contents of a letter signed David McGahey of Palestine Illinois and disted to Gan Cass acing William Garrard of being at [illegbile] in the Revolutionary war and stating that Wm Gerrard and did says that he heard Wm Garrard Senr say that he was a long is fals and with out foundation and further this deponant saith not 
William his X mark Garrard 
I hereby certify that the above afadavit was asigned and sworn to before me this 16th day of Decm 1834
D Boatright JP
I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named William Garrard Senr for the last 13 years and that full faith and credit is due and should be given to his testimony given under my hand and seal this 16th Day of Decm 1834 D Boatright JP
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State of Illinois
Crawford County} Set
I Edward H Piper clerk of the county commissioners court for the county and state aforesaid do certify that David Boatright whose name is subscribed to the within certificates is an acting justice of the peace in and for said county and state aforesaid and that he is entitled to full faith and credit in all of his acts and doings as such given under my hand as clerk this 17th day of December 1834
Edward H Piper clerk
Revolutionary 
papers
William Garrard
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Magahey
papers


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State of Illinois Crawford County
December 4th 1834
Being called on to testify with regard to William Garrard Senior s revolutionary services I testify from his own confession to me his com [illegible] tion to me was that if we ware under British government that we would see better times; that we would have better laws our tores would be lighter and that our lands would be cheaper and when ever the British would gain any advantage over the Americans it would animate his feelings and that he always supported the british government I do Sertify this to be the fact from between twenty and thirty years of acquaintance 
Daniel Martin
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State of Illinois
Johnson County} This day personally appeared Thomas Gore of Union county & state aforesaid and he being solemnly sworn in due form of Law before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for Johnson county & state aforesaid deposeth & saith that he was personally aquainted with Wm Garrard sener in Chester county in South Carolina for the term of about twenty years from about the close of the Revolutionary war for the term afforesaid and that the said Wm Garrard was under a good character during the said term of twenty years or there abouts immediately after the close of the revolution as afforesaid and also that this deponant was aquainted with said Garrard in Christian county in Kentuckey & that he the said Garrard was of good character in Kentuckey furing this deponants aquaintance with him there which was about 3 years vz the years 1807 & 1808 & 1809 to the best of this deponants recollection & farthar this deponant saith that he has no recollection of ever hearing of said garrard ever being accused of being a tory in time of the Revolution During the time of his aquaintance with said garrard either in South Carolina or Kentuckey & that the said William Garrard sener now a citizen of Crawford county & state afforesaid being now personall present (at the takeing of this Deposition) is the same identical person & Wm Garrard that he this Deponant knew in South Carolina & in Kentuckey & that so far as this Deponant ever heard from General report this deponant believes that the said garrard did serve in the United States army in the Revolutionary War
Thos gore Deponant
I hereby certify that the above named deponant was Duly & solemnly sworn to the above deposition on the 6th day of october 1834 & also that I consider this deponant to be a credible witness haveing been personally aquainted with him for the term of about 50 years or more Given under my hand & seal of this 6th of October 1834Hezekiah West JP
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State of Illinois
Johnson County} Set 
I John Dunn clerk of the county commissioners cout in and for said county do hereby certify that Hezekiah West whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate was at the time of the same was made an acting justice of the peace regularly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit of right ought to be  all his official acts 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of office at Vienna this 7th October 1834
John Dunn CCC
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State of Indiana Knox County Set
Before me George Calhound a justice of the peace in and for said county This day personally came Jarrett Young of the county aforesaid and being by me duly sworn saith that he has been personally acquainted with William Garrard senior of Crawford County Illinois for fifty four years that he lived near him in Chester County South Carolina, that he sustained a fair and unimpeached character, and that he has good reason to believe he was a true friend to his country and was a soldier in the actual service of the United States in the revolutionary war and further saith not
Jarret his X mark Young
Sworn and subscribed before me this 12th day of September 1834 George Calhound JP
I do hereby certify that I have know the above named Jarret Young for a number of years and believe that full faith is due and should be given to his testimony given under my hand this 12th day of September 1834 George Calhound
State of Illinois Knox County} Ss 
I Alexander D Scott clerk of the Knox circuit court do certify that George Calhound before whom the above affidavit was made was at the time of taking the same and still is an acting justice of the peace in & for said county & state aforesaid and due faith and credence is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this 12th day of September AD 1834
AD Scott
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May 27th 1835 Ills
Dear Sir, I am under the disagreeable necessity of letting you know that William Garrard Sen has taken an undue advantage of me in obtaining a certificate from me relative to my telling David McGahey that Garrard acknowledged he was a Tory in the revolutionary war, Their making unfair statements to me and my recollction not serving me and their putting my name to a certificate different from what I certified unto were the reasons why you got the certificate in the shape you did, I do not know from my own knowledge that Garrard was a Tory, but common report always classed him with the Tories The above I certify to be correct according to the best of my knowledge and belief, George Baith Sen
Hon JL Edwards
Commr pensions
We do hereby certify that we heard William Garrard Sen tell our Father that the whigs caught him and tied him on a young Filly and turned her loose, and she run under a stooping tree, but did not go close enough to kill him and then she run through brush and grapevines and the way he had to dodge was nothing to no body This he has undertaken to deny service he has undertook to get a pension, but need not deny it for he actually did tell it in our hearing and not only so but he has ever since whe first knew him, been called or classed with the Tories which has been nearly twenty years, given under our hands this 27th of May 1835
George Baith Jur
Thomas Baith
State of Illinois
Crawford County} sworn and subscribed before me this 28 day of May 1835
William Wilson JP seal
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May the 27 1835
Sir idoe sarte by thoute aboute sixteen years ago idid heaine Mr William Garet say thaite he wod taine his old haite and burin it any time for the saike of a king for he did believe that was the best laws from his one expresion and the comon report isartently must think he is a tory sir 7 years ago Mr Hatfield cused Mr Garet tat hide thait dident belong to him and he dident cntridictite which i have reaison to believe that his said ten is not as good as it is fey pesented to you sir in the plaice and sir sume of his warmest friends thait is as ting him nowe was making agra deal of fun of him a few years ago consainning the torie is m given under my hand Benjamin Beckwith
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Wm Garrard

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palestine Ill June 221838
Dear sir I once more adress you on my application for a pension as I have heard nothing from the office since you recvd the afadavits of Mr Wagner and Gregors & therefore wish to no wheather you have disposed of the case or not and if so in what way tis either for or against me if in my favor I stand in Grate need of my pite as such of clame it to be as & have known to the world by the best of testimony which was the very men that served with me in the revolution war therefore sirs of clame it is my rite as I have known to you that I served my country as an onest and uprite soldier would do therefore if I am Debane the kits gorentied to me by law I then demand as my rite full and certified coppes of all the changes in the war office against me with each name anext there to sir I wish you to be so good as to spar these lins to the Mor of Casey and I request your answer with out delay and will confer & faceen on your every servant
William Garrand senr
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Palestine Ill   June 22th 1838
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Wm Garrard
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Pension Agent
Washington City
D.C.
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State of Illinois
White County
This day personally appeared before me an acting justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Nathan Gaggers and after being duely sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with William Garrard now a citizen of Crawford County Illinois and who formerly was a citizen of chester county South Carolina where I lived a neighbor to the said William Garrard Senr from the year 1784 to the year 1805 and was intimately acquainted with him during that space of time and further this deponent saith that the said William Garrard sr bore the character of an honest upright man and good citizen and that at the period above spoken of he bore the character of having been a true friend to his country during the Revolutionar war and further this deponent saith that the said William Garrard now a citizen of Crawford county Illinois is the identical same man that this deponent knew in chester county South Carolina and further this deponent saith that he never heard of the said William
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Garrard Snr accused of being a tory and further this deponent sayith not as witness my hand November 8th 1837
Nathan hix X mark Jaggers
State of Illinois
White County} 
I Peter Kershaw a justice of the peace of the said county do hereby certify that the above named Nathan Jaggers personally appeared before me and made aoth that the above affidavit was true I do further certify that the sad Nathan Jaggers is personally known to me to be a man of veractiy and in good standing both in church and in general society Given under my hand and seal November 8th 1837
Peter Kershaw JP
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Palestine   Ills Apl. 11
March 30 [illegible]
Wm Garrard
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Palestine Illinois March 28th 1835
My dear sir
You will please to excuse me for troubling you again Duty is what compells me I sent you some docuemtns bearing date the second of the present instant bad health and cold weather had prevented me from having them as full as I otherwise should I have since made some enquiring and find that several of those who signed Garrards paper were received as several of them cannot read writing and over most respectable citizens refused to put their names to it aforingning as a reason that they had never considered me a man who would depart from the truth, and that public report said that he (Garrard) was always said to be a tory not only in the revolution but down to the presnet time Take notice this was in my absence or while I was at Vandalir but since I have returned home the dust not chirp or open their mouths to me on the subject the plain reasons is they know I can prove waht I have stated and more on the back of it He Garrard said in a harvest field a few year back that he would burn his hat any tim eto be under British government and several has told me the asked him how long when and where and who he served under and never could obtain any satisfaction all he would say was he stood ready to serve but one thin I had from his own oath that he run to the South Carolina where his mother lived and as he was returning home near to Hillsborough he unexpectedly met a number of the American light those which gave him great alarm but he turned out of the road and the passed him by now a whig need not to have been alarmed at meeting whigs
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An honourable and highminded man dont wish to stoop to little things but I hope you will excuse me for doing it now Garrard as I have understood has sent on a certificate of his good character there are pensons but may have some good traits in  [illegible] and may have done some good acts in their lives but I can assure you Garrard is not very conspicous in that way He kept a little  [illegible] yard for several years and I never heard as much complaint on any man in my life for little mean t about latter [illegible]  [illegible] against him I will give one Sample Capt Hetfield one of our most respectable  [illegible]  gave him a hide to tan on the  [illegible] I  [illegible]  at Hetfields one day after he had gotton his hide of leather, he was much displeased and  [illegible]  Garrard had cheated him and that it was not the only time he had taken the advantage of him He Hetfield beings his side to show me how Garred had split it and as well as I could guess it was about the width of common  [illegible]  small Again he has been a number of the  [illegible]  church and was turned out for bad constant this time  [illegible]  as far as I have had an opportunity of judging (which had been good) He is a poor persons g [illegible] ing torie man and I am fully convinced has no right to a pension When I wrote you first I was told old Mr Jesse Higgins had certified for him  [illegible]  which made me mention the connection certifying for one and  [illegible]  Higgans son told me a few days ago his father did not certify for Garrard and likewise said he told Garrard himself he ought to go to the king of England for a pension
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and that he was satisfied Garrard had no right to a pension some such as Boatright; and Lagnow may have written to you favorably for Garrard but not a man here offers to say the believe he was a whig or ever served his country as a soldier The truth (as far as can be asertained from himself and others) that he (Garrard) was a tory but too great a coward to fight for any side but privately did all he could for the British and Tories, I could prove a score of affidavits to confirm what I have written to you I could get certified respecting Lagow and Boatright that would convince any man that their characters are not the fairest in the world by a long ways But I don't wish to let myself down to such men, and to be a paying money to the magistrate for swearing witness and certifying officially I wish you to consider this as officially from me as if I was under oath as I feell myself as accountable to my [illegible] as if sworn to fifty times
I am yours with the utmost respect David McGahey
JL Edwards
Commr of pensions,

B It has been thought and said by some here that Garrards testimony that he has been getting from a distance has from some of his  tory friends Be that as it may he has had better verry alone in open court here and such a thing was never mentioned in court in my presence Notwithstanding I was frequently called on to assist old men to get their pensions DMG
JLC
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Russellville Ill}      Free
Jany 2nd.      }

The 
Hon Z Casey
Washington
City
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Palestine Decbr 14th 1837
Dear Sir I again in close to you by the regemt of our old friend William Garrd two depositions which is such as I hope will satisfy you and the department that if any man is entitled to a pension that he is you will also see the certified of the clerk as to the standing of Jaggars and I before you to Genl Robinson for his standing and character you now will have the whole of the evidence before you and I hope and trust that justice will be the remitt of your dissision in the matter if you recolect I was talking to you a bout this business last July and in formed you that a Mr Wagganor would Identify to Mr Garrards being a soulder in the re war now my dear sir it is to you we look for our rights we have none other and I hope and trust that this long and perplesced case may be put to rest you will please to have a coppy of the charges and certificats against W Garrad sent to him so that he may have a oppertunity to prove them unfound and untrue you will please to write me on the recpt of this and you will much oblige your humble sert
Wilson Lagow
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Mar 16
Caveals
Wm Garrard  Sr
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I hereby certify that I have not to the best of my knowledge or belief communicated any information to the war department respecting William Garrards getting a pension but what I had sufficent evidence to satisfy my mind and still unsatisfied was true
Given under my hand this second day of March 1835
David McGahey
State of Illinois
Crawford county} March 1835 William Wilson JP Seal
Dear Sir
Notwithstanding your letter is dated January the 13th 1835, it never came to hand untill three days ago as such you can discover why it was not answered sooner
Having to leave home on the last week in Mar for  Tanchaha to attend the legislature and not returning home untill the 16th of July Garrard with his coadjctors endeavored to take every advantage of my absence and get testimony in Garrards favor as I have been confined the greater part of my time to my room by ill health since my return I have not been able to ascertain only a small portion of their proceedings as they keep them as secret as posible at least from one The only thing of public notoriety that has come to my ears is Mr Baiths testimony which the fradulently obtained by making false statements to him which he has corrected and I presume you have seen as the were sent on to you
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He told the old man that I had made certain
Statements in writing to the war department
respecting Garrard and had given him as
the author by which means that obtained his
affidavit, which statements I never made 
and know you never communicated to them
as such you can see what stress is to be placed
on their testimony, Boatright and Legow
Garrards and are disappointed men, they
have both tried for seats in the legislature
and failed, Boatright has run against
me twice, and against my son once,
Lagow once against me, so that you can discover
the foundation in some degree of the opposition
send the plan of strengthing their party as
Garrard has a large connection
You wish me to State on oath what I know
of Garrard revolutionary services. This would be hard
for me to do as I am convinced he never ordered
any,  I come to this conclusion from what I have
heard from his own lips and the testimony of
many others in whom I could confide, even from
Several of his own connection, the plain fact is
I have never heard the first person speak
on the subject but always classied Garrard 
with the tories and I have lived as neighbor to
him for sixteen years

My object in giving information was to save
the department from imposition and I was
only so doing what every honest man ought to do
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But if I have to be put to such trouble and endanger my own standing as an honest man and imporctors should succeed I assure you I shall be very carefull never to give any information again no matter how base the imposition I have enclosed a few certificates that well I think satisfy you that we have made no unfair statements as to Garrards getting signest to establish his character was an honesty good citizen there are few but might do the same of the would take the same course to obtain it I was so disposed I could give you a different picture of things If you will be so kind as to send me a coppy of the letter you sent to Boatright you will confer a favor on me and do your self no inquiring as the are starting things I wrote to you nor you to them
I am yours with the utmost respect
David McGahey
Mr JL Edwards
Commr of pensions
B My son in my absence went to sd Mr Martins to obtain a certificate they went to the magistrates and he was not at home therefore he has not certified to it under oath the Martin lives 12 or 13 miles from me and the weather has been extremly cold and the road bad so that I could not obtain his affidavit since I received your letter the Barracks are about the same distance off DMG
JLE Mr Donnells wife say Garrard stated the whigs found him in a room where he had hid himself for fear of them this looks like being entitled to a pension
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Palestine Illinois May 24th 1835
Sir
I see in the Recommendation in favor of William Garrard dated Nov 10th 1834 I omitted completing my remarks relative to him I objected to signing it at all but after being persuaded for some time I observed that I would sign it as to the number of years that I had been acquainted with him the said Garrard the certificated dated Feby 13th 1835 in favor of Mr Garrard I signed willingly
Wm Houston
David McGahey Esq
Present
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Palestine Illinois May 24th 1835
Sir
Having just had an opportunity of reading the copy of a certificate for William Garrard who has made application for a pension I state from a perfect recollection of the circumstance that I was standing at one of the store doors in this place where William Garrard presented the certificate to me with a request that I would sign it. I replied to Mr Garrard that I was in a hurry and had no disposition to meddle in such business Mr Garrard replied that he wished me to certify that I had known nothing of him or his character other than that of a good and honest citizen supposing there was nothing more contained in the certificate than he stated I signed it without reading the contents and further I can state that I heard no mention made of David McGahey or any thing which may have been said or written by him about said Garrard
Isaac N Wilson
Daivd McGahey Esq
Present
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Certificate of
Edward Legg
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Palestine December 16th 1834
I have been intimately acquainted with Mr Garrard for Eighteen years and have always [illegible] Assteamed him as an honest upright man and I recolled that William Garrard told me some 8 or ten years ago of some of the circumstances that took place when he was in the army a bought the Do winded man and the alligator which is stated in the certificate of West and this in [illegible] me to believe that he Garrard was a soldier in Revolutionary war & further sayeth not
Edward Legg
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Russellville Ill}.  Free
Jan 2nd
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The
Hon Z Casey
Washington
City
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Palestine Decr 15th 1837
Dear sir I with f [illegible] more taken this [illegible] herby of advising you behaving in Confidence that I am advisinga time and possible  [illegible] polition therefore with redom int men I can coresponce with therefore I take the liberty of calling your attention once more to the application of the old man worne solder William Garrard  [illegible] and with there lives will be two oather afadavit one & the Nathan Gaggers of white county & [illegible] the other a Mr Isaac Wagonner of Shelby county Illinois who swears in the positive that he [illegible] served with the applicant in the Revolution war now sir the with is that all the proof of the applicant [illegible] taken to Geather I am induged to believe that stronger proff have not been in the war office by any applicant in the nation therefore sir as you and the representative of our district we look to n offer man than your self for justice as you will be one of the judges in this case all that will be st at your hands will be justice A Gnebell to ecntence in the case the old man is in Grate need therefore he wishes a dission with out delay as he wishes to no his doom wheather he is to direct friend to his country or at long sir an open return from the city we wish you to call by Palestine as your presents will be neseary pr [illegible] to the election in August [illegible] this from your friend and humble servant D Boatright
Hon Casey
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Caveat
vs
1 mo - Attention

Wm Garrard

Jan 3, 1835.
Pension Office

___________________
[illegible stamp]
Lewis Cass  Secretary of [illegible] 
Washington City
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Palestine Crawford County State of Illinois
December 9th 1834
To The Honourable Secretary of War

Sir
Some time or three weeks since A Mr William Garrard Senior of this county called upon me stating that he had applied for a pension as a soldier of the Revolutionary War and that David Mc Gaha of this county had written a letter to you charging him (Garrard) of having been a Tory and that I George Bathe should have said that said William Garrard Senior had told me to and that he wished me to give him a certificate Wm Garrard then produced a certificate for me to sign which he had prepared without any consultation with me. The certificate being read I objected to stating that I was old and infirm and my recollection very poor that I was willing to certify that to the best of my recollection I had never heard from him the said William Garrard Senior say that he was or has been a Tory or any recollection of having told Wm McGaha so but that I was unwilling to sign the one then proposed. To my objection Wm Garrard appeared offen did and threw down the certificate after remaining silent for some time, observed he wished that I would do something soon I then observed that I would sign it to be understood distinctly that it was only to the best of my recollection and it was only with the understanding that I did sign the certificate I meant to convey by that certificate and all that I intended to convey in it was the following statement of facts Vz that Wm Garrard had never told me that he had been a Tory to the best of my recollection nor did I recollect of ever telling Wm McGaha so and that I had long known Wm Garrard and had known nothing against his Character Had I have been consulted previously and have dictated the wording of the certificate I should have dictated nothing more I have heard repeatly reports to through neighbourhood that have Garrard had been a Tory but I know nothing myself
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myself of the truth of such reports I have reason to believe from information and the conduct of Garrard and his friends since I signed the certificate under the circumstances I did that it had been a premeditated plan of Garrard and his friends to draw up the certificate without consulting me puting in all they desired I should say and thereby deceive one which I greatly regret they have done my object in writing this letter to you is to correct any false impressions that my certificate may make upon you and myself the justice that truth requires
I am very respectfully
Sir your obedient servant
George his X mark Bathe
Mr Bathe not being able to write his name requested his name to be wrote and made his mark as above after the letter had been [illegible and [illegible] to him and declared that he had [illegible] requested the same in the Presence of us
West hdehile
James Stibley
John Houston
William Wilson
Joseph Kitchell
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A Report has been common in the neighborhood for more than seven
years past and repeatedly since that said Garrard had been a
Tori in the Revolutionary war and never heard therefore contra
dicted untill since said Garrard has applied for a pension
I know nothing myself of the truth of said report but only
that he report was general in his own neightborhood and
[illegible] as for as I have any knowledge by him and his
friends until have  Garrard applied for a pension
            his
George X Bathe [illegible]
           mark

Signed in the presence of ⎬
[illegible] Mitchell
[illegible]
H Fuller

to
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Free
Carmi Ill}
20th June}

July

J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington
D.C,
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Hon J. L. Edwards
War Department
Pension office
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$23.33 per ann
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Senate Chambers
March 22d 1836
Dr Sir
Will you be pleased to hand the enclosed letter to Genl Rodger from South Carolina of the House of Representatives I have not the pleasure of his acquaintence or would call on him myself He is the representative of Chester Co SC where Wm Garrard resided during the War of the Revolution and have been informed by a gentleman from that state can probably give some information as to Garrards services and whether he was Whig or Tory so that his application for a pension can be speedily & properly decided upon the papers in relation to the whole case are also sent for Genl Rogers examination which be so good as have carefully taken care of and returned with his reply Your Hum sert
Hon Z Casey  John M Robinson
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J L Edwards Esquire
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Palestine Ill
May 5th 1835
Sir
The Revd David Magahey has shewn me a copy of a recommendation sent to your department in favour of William Garrard an applicant for a pension which recommendation states "That we have never heard any thing deragatory to said Garrards character" now the truth is that some of those who have signed that recommends now the truth is that some of those who have signed that recommendation had heard of a report that was in general circulation in Mr Garrards neighborhood that said Garrard had been a Tory during the Revolutionary War and some of those signers was amongst in making use of the report A report of said Garrards having been a Tory has been in circulation ever since that it was understood that he had applied for a pension I have lived within two miles of Mr Magahey for Seventeen years during which time he has been eight years a member of the Legislature of this state the last four years a member of the Senate and whose time of service has not yet expired Mr Magahey was a preacher of the gospel when I just knew him and still continues as such his character for truth and veracity I consider good Mr Magahey has been and still is a decided friend of the present administration which is the principal cause of some of our most active and vendutive app[illegible]nts to the present administration in getting us a recommendation in favour of said Garrard and impeaching the credit of Mr Magahey
I am very respectfully 
Sir your obt sevt
Joseph Kitatells

JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Palestine Ill April 20th 1835
Dear Sir
I had concluded not to trouble you with any more communications respecting the general business But at the solicitations of some men of note and a desire in my own mind to convince the public here of the base conduct of Garrard and his assistants, I ask a friendly request of you to send me the original recommendation of Garrards character which has several signatures to it and if you do not feel disposed to send the original a true coppy with the names of they signers, as it is evident from what some of the signers says there has been a grand fraud practised on them amounting to forgery which you can discover from Mr Gills certificate which I sent you. The object is that those who have been engaged in such base conduct may be fully known and exposed as all hopes of Garrards getting a pension appears extinguished, we wish to let they people know the conduct of his friend and as he cannot write himself he had it done by another whic makes me prefer the original paper relative to his character
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I am yours with the utmost respect,
David McGahey


Mr. J. L. Edwards
Commisr of pensions
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Palestine Ill July 22
May 11
Wm Garrard
[illegible]


Free
The Hon
J. L. Edwards Pension Agent
Washington
City
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Palestine 11th May 1835
Dear Sir I write to you for an oald Revolutionary soulder Wm Garrod who has made sundry application for a pension and who has done every thing according to law that any man could do I have no doubt but his certificat is as well authenticated as any applicant that has made application to your office he has done every thing that you directed in your letter last winter to my son Alfred G Lagow and fearing that some mis statement has ben made to you by the same sorse that was through David McGahey in Decr [illegible] to write at this time to you their was sundry letters wrote to John M Robinson our senator and also to Genl Casey the representors from this district and neither of them has ever wrote one word a bought it to any person who wrote to them) on the subject and we have thought straijc consearrcy their conduct McGahey was in the senate of the state and would have his vote in making a senator and as he was the opponant of Mr Garrard be came he did not vote for him is the only reason that he did make such Boss charges a gainst him he is out of the senate and will be as long as he lives he was elected by a party that elected him mearly for local purposes he in truth is making statements contrary to what he wrote you) and was it not that justice require some aide to presure to the man who well deserves the rewards granted to the virtues who fought for our liberty I would not trouble you with their lines you will please to let me hear from you on this subject as early as posibell
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I shall also write to Hon Secteary of war on the sujbect if it becomes nessary I think it a hard case that when hundreds are drawing the reward of their merrit that this man who [illegible] Eaqual servis to his country and who is in his seventy fifthe year can not git the petuance which is his just due your early attention to this letter will be thankfully recvd by your humble sevt Wilson Lagow
the Hon JL Edwards PAt
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Hon. J M Robinson
Senate U.S.
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Washington
March 25 1836
Sir
Since reading your letter to Col Johnson which he some weeks since handed me together with the papers in the case of Wm Garrard Senr an applicant for a pension from Crawford Co Ill I have with great care examined all the papers in relation to the application and am not aware of being in possession of any information upon the subject which would materially add to that contained in the papers themselves I had hoped from the correspondence between Gen Casey, Genl Rogers & myself which is enclosed with the original papers herewith returned to your office; to have elected something usefull as an auxilery to a proper decision of the case for I would realy be gratified of the matter could rightly and properly brought to a close
Very respectfully
yours 
John M Robinson
JL Edwards Esq
Pension office
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Palestine Ill, February 23d 1837
Dear Sir
I understand Alred G Lagow has started for Washington City a few day back It is said his main business is to get himself or some of his friends placed in the Land office here in place of the present incumbents Likewise to try and engross the post office here I must think if the Van Borren & Mr Kenoroc knew him he would be far from succeeding in either object as I do believe there are few If any in the state who have opposed the present administration more bitterly than Mr Lagow
Mr Lagow his Father I Mr Broatright were the great actors in the Garrard pension business us neibhor Garrard nor any of his family or any of the connection as far as I know can write any thing fit to send on to the department made it necessary to get assistance and I have been told by some of those who have a good right to kn that Legow was the principal scribe I have not heard lately of any particular actions a making
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to review Garrards claim But as these are generally done in a private or rather secreat manner it is probable to me that this will be a part of his mission If any attempt should be made please let me know it and I think I can give you full satisfaction on any point as I am fully convinced the claim is unjust and the measures made use of to effect it equally unjust Offices and money If I can underst any thing were the great spring of action in trying to get Garrard a pension as at least one of those men (W Lagow) has repeatedly many years back publickly called old G a Tory and made more game of him than any person I knew of in the plain
You will please to consider this a private thing and if you should want any thing for the public you shall have it in better form
Yours with the utmost respect 
David McGahee
JL Edwards Esq
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J.L. Edward Esq
H
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City


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[illegible]
Wm Garrard 
[illegible] Appl


Hon Z Casey
HR
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Mr Caseys respects to Mr Edwards and asks to call his attention to the enclosed letters and affidavits
January 19th 1838
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(copy)
March 22nd 1836
[illegible]  Hon   
Mr Roger
of S Carolina
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(copy)
Senate Chamber
March 21 1836

Dr Sir
There is considerable difficulty as to an application of Wm Garrard Snr for a pension and as he was a citizen of Chester county S Carolina during the Revolution perhaps it is in your power to give some information upon the subject In his declaration he represents himself to have been born Stafford Co Va the 1st of Jan 1760 lied in Chester County SC when called into service and so continued to live for about 20 years afterwards in Ga about 10 years then in Ky 4 years thence removed to Crawford County Illinois where he now resides and served as a private as follows viz 3 months under Capt A Thomas in 1779 4 months & a half under same officer in 1780 3 months under Lieut Donald in 1781 and 3 months under capt A Davis in 1782 Garrard is charged with having been a Tory and not a Whig hence the difficulty as to
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his application If you can give any information as to his services & character and whether he was Whig or Tory be so kind as do so the whole papers are in my possession and here with sent for your inspection As early an answer as convenient is desired
Very respectfully
your obdt sert
John M Robinson

Hon Mr Rogers
of S Carolina
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House of Representatives
Decr 17th 1838
Sir
Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress, I have taken some pains to inform myself of the character of Isaac Waggoner of Shelby county Ills one of the witnesses infavor of William Garrard application for a pension; and find it to be good and urreprochable for truth and verasity no man stands higher with great respect 
Your obt svt
Z Casey

JL Edwards Esr
Com of pensions

V I therefore think the pension of W Garrard ought to be granted
Z Casy
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House of Representatives
March 24th 1835
Dear Sir
I have examined the papers handed me by the Honble Mr Casey relative to the claim of Mr Wm Garard Senr who as his declaration allegs that he served in the war of the revolution and that he resided in Chester District So Carolina at that time I am sorry to reply to you that I can render neither him nor yourself any other service in the matter, than to say that he has spoken of several highly respectable and will known Whig officers of the revolution I have submitted his declaration to my colleague Governor Manning and he concurs with me in recognising only the names of the aforesaid bonafide which officers his acquaintanes with the character of those officers is more minute and correct than mine Chester District is in the bounds of the congressional distirct I ahve the honor to represent my acquaintance there is not so extreme as in other parts of my district but I do not recollect any person there of the name of Garard nor have I ever heard of such a name then or in the surrounding country,
Very Respectfully yours &co
James Rogers
Honble John M Robinson of Ill
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War Department
Pension Office
Feb. 17, 1836

Sir

As I find great difficulty in deciding
on the case of William Garrard, from the contradictory
evidence given, and from a want of the knowledge of
the character of the parties concerned, it has been deemed
most advisable to enclose the papers to you and to ask
you to obtain the opinion of the Hon. Mr Robinson
and the other gentlemen in Congress who are referred
to in the case. Be pleased to submit the accompany
ing papers to them. The papers are 37 in number.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J L. Edwards

Hon R. M. Johnson
House of Representatives
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Nov 29. 1833
Pension Office
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Caveat in the case
of Wm Garrard Sen
Ills
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Free                         Palestine Ill
Nov 18
For 
Lewis  Cass
Secretary of war
Washington  City
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Palestine Ill Nov 13th 1833
My Dear Sir
You will please to excuse my freedom in addressing you at this time nothing but a sense off what I believe to be justice makes me do it A many by the name off William Garrard Sen has and is (I am told) still applying for a pention for revolutionary services, I can assure there are few men more willing for they old veterans to be rewarded for their services than I am but to pay a man for being a tory is something I cant brook I have been familary acquainted with this Sd Garrard for nearly eighteen years and with others who knew him long before I did and from his own declarations and the united testimony of all the whole himself included I am fully satisfied he was a tory and never took up arms willingly in defense off his country I shall just state some declarations from his own lips which I could easily procure certificates from those who heard heard him to prove it 1st when accused one day by an old revolutionary soldier (George Baith) of being a tory he (Garrard) said he was so situated he had to be whig & tory both, again William [illegible] and
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William Parrent both says that they heard Garrard say the whigs put on a young Filly and turned here loose, maby I dint see sigts was his own expression, these things were let out before there was any expectation off getting a pention, and now tries to deny them, I believe he was in Gen Marions camp, but I expect he did not go off choice for export says he owns himself he was then and how he got away is no bodies business, is said to be his own words on that point probably made the young filly off another report says that him and two others deserted one of them William Dunlap Sen, who I understand is applying for a pention, and they whigs follow them and kiled the other many while they were a trying to swim across a river, Dunlap is a honest old man, and I presume would never have thought of trying for a pention, if it had not been for Garrard but there a large connection of them and its probable they work to others hands in procuring testimony There is not a remaining doubt in my mind but they were both Tories Viz Garrard & Dunlap
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Gov. Casey one of our Representatives can
and I presume will give you some information
respecting myself, so that you can know whither
to place any reliance in what I write,
what I have done is from a sense of duty

Yours with the utmost respects

David McGahey

Gov. Cass,
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Jany 11, 1834
Pension Office


Gov.
Luis Cass
Secretary of war

Washington City

Pension
[illegible] 19
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Palestine Ill Decr 26th 1833
Gov Cass,
In addition to what I have already communicated I have to add that I understand William Garrard has sent his papers back to you again If there is any new testimony added it was not done at our last court for he was not at home during the whole term and one of they members of court told me that there was nothing done in his case the previous therefore I conclude if there is any thing new it is not done in a legal way The clerk of the court Mr Piper frequently does the writing for applicants and has a certain sum, if the succeed and if not only half price which makes it his interest for them to succeed therefore I conclude if there is any additional testimony, it is a voluntary act of the clerk when Garrard first talked of applying for a pention it was laugh at by all who knew him at least all
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that I ever hears speake of it which were many, not thinking he would offer at the like, and some of thr near connections Viz Garrard and Dunlap has said they can never get a pention without some person wold sware falsly for them and truly I think the same, since there appears such a determination in them people begins to talk more free about them, especially Garrard, and report which is said to come from a respectable source, says Garrard went into the American came on foot as a spy and gave the enemy information By which means the compleately disentfilled the whigs now such men to want a pention not only so if he was to succeed it wode open a door for some others in these bounds to apply
What I have communciated on this subject is from a sense off duty I wish to defraud no man out of his just rights your obt servt D McGahey
govr Cass
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Palestine. Ill.    Free
Nov  28.

Hon
J R Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington City 

 M 396  Edwards

[illegible]
Pension Office 

Wm Garrard
Ills [illegible]
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Palestine Ill November 26th 1839
My Dear sir
Sometime past I wrote to the department of which you are the head stating that if I could obtain a correct copy of the Garrards papers that I believed I could prove to any unprejudiced mind that he was not entitled to a pension you have my sincere thanks for complying with my request Mr Edwards stated in his note to you that he had no recollection of his promising to let me know would Garrard send on any additional testimony in behalf of a pension I have no desire to accuse Mr Edwards of willfully making a wrong statement But I assure he did which I am able to prove by good testimony who read his note to me which unfortunately at present is mislayed with the note letting me know of (what I thought) was the final deposition of Garrards pension which was that he would get none This letter in one sence is useless as M Garrard has just gone to another world where rewards will given on the principles of real merrit However, in addition to the testimony already sent to the department on the strength of which Mr Edwards wrote me Garrard could not obtain a pension I will simply state I could have proved by man witnesses that the men who certified on oath to his first application for a pension had made a grand mistake Mr Kenedy the preacher who had known Garrard for many years has told me repeatedly that he believed Garrard to be a tory Mr Higgins who certified with Kenedy whose daughter is married to Garrards son I never conversed with on the subject But no person need exppress themselves more plain on any subject than his (Higgins) sons has done in opposition to Garrards pension one of them said he told Garrard to his face that he ought to apply to the King of England for a pension You can perceive it started in corruption as for old Mr Higgins I fully believe he was imposed uppon as he is quite illiterate But not so with Kenedy which if I was to let it be made public would blast him forever Again notwithstanding Garrard sent on the deposition of Waggoner stating that he new Garrard in the army This can easily be accounted for from his own words how he might be seen in the army
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and still not entitled to a pension I could name several persons who have heard Garrard make his statements respecting his military services But one must suffice His (Gd) own son in law, has told me repeatly that the old man said he acted whig and tory both, when the whigs would come across him he would pretend to be a good whig and go with them untill he could get an oportunity to slip off from them, and when with the British was on their side But by the by the whigs made him ride a young filly without saddle or bridle for his loyalty so that its easy to see that hundreds might have seen in the army and him still a tory in heart The plain truth is he got his pension by getting other persons to contradict on oaths what he had repeatedily stated himself and which was generally believed to be true, It may be asked why I have not sent on this testimony before now? I have reasons for it First I was tired of the business and he had gotten his pension for what I had in view at first was to keep the government from being imposed on, secondly, the old man fell last winter on the ice and got badly cripled and was thougt wold never survivt it which he never dit Again we have a potent enemy to contend with respecting politics and to have stired it up again would have made several breaches in the democratic ranks of which I profess to be a member
My Dear Sir, I beg of you and Mr Edwards not to think hard of me for troubling you with a thing that must remain as it is All I have in view is to vin cate my own character
Believe me sir, I have the highest veneration for yourself with every brach of the (cabinet) family in which you stand connected
David McGahey
Hon JR Poinseth
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Palestine Ill
March 10

Palestine Ill.        Free
J L Edwards Esq.
Commr of Pensions
Washington City

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Wm Garrard

[illegible]
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War Department,
Pension Office
January 22. 1839

Sir

In answer to your letter of the
19th inst. I have the honor to state that consis
ently with the rule, a copy of the affidavit of
Mr Waggoner in the case of William Garrard
cannot be furnished until the object for which
it is wanted be first made known.

I have the honor to be
very respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
J L Edwards

Hon. Z. Casey
House of Representatives
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Palestine Ills.    Free
Nov 6

J..L..  Edwards Esq.
Washington City
Commr  Pensions


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Wm Garrard
[illegible]
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Palestine Ill. Nov 2nd 1837.

My dear Sir,

I had concluded, I should not be under the necessity of troubling
you again, on the subject of the Garrard business, I understand
or at least it has been hinted to me that the haves
been away hunting for testimony in favor of Garrard.  If any
thing should go on to you favorable to Garrard. I will take it
as a special favor, from you, to send me a full copy of
it, as I have very little doubt it would be like some
of their other communications, which I call forgeries
Gov. Casey & Gen. Robinson can give a tolerable good
Sample of the Legow characters, whom with Boatright
are the principle actors for Garrard.

I again repeat that I am fully convinced a more unjust
claim need never be offered,

I am yours with the utmost respect.

David McGahey

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
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Feb 20

Hon Z Casey


18
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Coms of Pension
Washington
City
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Hall of the H. of R.
Feb 18th 1835

Sir

I am requested to obtain from the
pension office, a copy of all the letters
writen by D. McGahey to the Sec. of War
or yourself, in relation to the application
of a Wm Garrod of Crawford County
Illinois for a pension

Will you have the goodness to
enclose to me, the copy requested by so
doing you will oblige your obt Svt

Z. Casey

J. L. Edwards Esq
Coms of Pensions
Page 99

Dear Sir, I have just got more fully into the Secreet
of their base conduct than I had ever heard before,
respecting Garrard, as he can neither read nor write
Lagow drew up a short recommendation of his
character as a private citizen, and got several
of my friends to sign it, and had left a space
between the certificate, and the signers names
which the filled up by stating that they believed
I had with made false statements re[illegible] Garrard. As the mail will start in a few
hours  I have it not in my power to procure the
certificates now, but if needed can easily get them
which will show how easily they have acted,
Mr J. L. Edward        David McGahey
March 30th 1835
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J. Donnells
certificate
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I do hereby certify that I have been intimately acquainted with Old William Garrard Sen for several years and lived a near neighbor to him part of the time, and has heard him repeatedly express his views wwith regard to Wigs and Tory, and always found him on the side of the toryes and in favor of the British in the old revolution and basting of the British laws and condeming ours and that the whigs took him prisoner and tied him on a young filly and turned her loose and concluded expressing himself thus "Maybe I din see sights" and I further certify that I have heard numbers express their opinion about him and the universal talk was that he Garrard was a tory This was before there was any talk of the old soldiers getting a pension, and after he began to talk of getting a pension he then began to deny and plaster up his former declarations And as for Mr Boatright he is a man in whom I have no confidence at all
Given under my hand this 24 day of November 1834 Jesse Donnell
State of Illinois
Crawford County Sworn and subscribed before me this 27 day of February 1855 William Wilson JP seal
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Hr George Baith sir after my best respec to you I would wish to inform you that I think that they have taken the advantage of you in that affidavit that is qualified y [illegible] thay are a making use of it as positive [illegible] insted of circumstantial guidence I have ben informed that you have [illegible] the statement in the presence of several good substantial men that you had heard about W Garrard tell that he was with the tory in the revolutionary war I wish you not to have the advantage taken of you in that way this from your frend this 7th day of Nov 1834 Robert Haskin
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The deposition of Absalom Humphries Sr taken at the office of PC Frays in the town of Cadiz Trigg County and state of Kentucky on the 30th day of Oct 1832 for the purpose of establishing and proving by said Hunphries a resident of the county and state aforesaid that William Garrard a resident of the county of Crawford and state of Illinois was a volunteer soldier in the revolutionary war The deponent being of lawful age and first duly sworn deposeth and saith; that he became acquainted with William Garrard in the year 1779 and saw said Garrard several time sin the service of the army of teh United States in the years 1780 and 1781 under captain Anderson Thomas and lieutenant West Donald in the state of South Carolina The principal commanding officers in the said army were major Pearson and others and the further the deponent saith not
Alsalom Humphries
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Trigg County Set
The foregoing deposition
of Absalom Humphries was thus
taken, subscribed and sworn to by
the said Absalom Humphries
before the undersigned, a justice
of the peace in and for said county
at the time and place, and for
the purpose stated in the caption
thereof. Given under my hand
this 30th day of Oct 1832
Philemon C Frayser J.P. T.C.

Commonwealth of Kentucky
Trigg County Set.
I, William Cannon, Clerk of the
County Court for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify
that Philemon C. Frayser, esquire, who subscribes his
name to the above certificate, and before whom the
within deposition or affidavit of Absalom Humphries
was made, is legally an acting Justice of the Peace
in and for the County of Trigg aforesaid, duly commissioned
and qualified according to law, and that full faith and
credit are due to and should be given to all his official
acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal
of Office of said Trigg County Court
at Office in Cadiz this 30th day of
October, 1832, and in the 41st year of
the Commonwealth
Will Cannon, Clerk
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We the under signed having been acquainted with William Garrard about sixteen years
we do not believe that he is or ever has been
a trew friend to his country and for good
reason we do not believe he even was a soldier
in the United States army in time of the
revolutionary war: given under our hands
this 6th day of December 1834
William Barrick
John Barrick
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Wm Garrard
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Palestine Ill June 4th 1838
Sir
Permit me to Trouble and more on the subject of my papers sent to that office for Joier Desesean Eather for an Leanet my drawing a pension for my servis in the ould Revolaunary war and I respectfully request you wold give your desison for or again me being well aprise that I have sent to that affer all the evidence that the law required in my behalf
I am allso appear of the better sent to that affer by David McGhary giving your a detaile of sum wardes said to have been spaken by me with is faulee and with out eaven a parelel of thruth in my past and could I get hauld of the better sent by McGhacy I wat but the bow inform on the auld midnight assorator all as begn done by McGhaey as fraud out of naberhood strife and becuse I wold not give him my sufrigd in his eletion I keep my self free from all parties thought I fiale my self a frend to the preasnt administration
You will please Inform me of you decison on my papers and canfir a favor on you
Most ob sr William Garret

Hon JL Edwards Esqr 
Washington City
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William Garrards
Papers
No 9
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State of Illinois
Crawford County} Set
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for the county aforesaid William Garrard who being duly deposeth & saith that Garrard who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades Vz
Three months as a private under Capt A Thomas in the year 1779
Four months and a half as a private under same capt in the year 1780
Three months as a private under Lieut Donald in the year 1781
Three months as a private under Capt A Davis in the year 1782 and for such service I claim a pension
iven under my hand and seal this seventh day of December AD 1833 William Wilson JP
State of Illinois Crawford county set I Edward H Piper clerk of the county commissioners court for said county do hereby certify that William Wilson Esqr before whom the above affidavit was taken was at the time of signing the
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same and still is an acting Justice of the peace in
& for said county, duly commissioned and qualified as such
and that full faith and credit is due and should be given
to all his official acts and such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of said Court at Palestine
this 7th day of December AD 1833
Edward H. Piper Clk

I Edward H. Piper Clerk of the county commissioners
court in & for the County of Crawford & State of Illinois
do hereby certify that the foregoing pages contains the
original proceedings of the said Court, also the amendments
thereto in the matter of the application
of William Garrard for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my
hand and seal of office, this 7th day
December A.D. 1833
Edward H. Piper Clerk
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Commonwealth of Kentucky}
Trigg County                           }   Set.
I Levi Lancaster, eldest and Presiding Justice
of the County Court for the County of Trigg aforesaid
do hereby certify that William Cannon who subscribe
his name to the foregoing certificate is Clerk of
our said Trigg County Court, and that his said
certificate and attestation are in due form
of law

Given under my hand and seal
this 30th day of October, 1832
Levi Landcaster. SEAL
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Wm Garrard Sr,
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Mr
J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
War department
Washington City
Page 113

I hereby certify, that William Garrard [illegible] told me he was
so situated that he had to act both whig and tory
But when speaking on the subject of goverment he said
he then (in the revolution) prefered the British laws
and did so yet,

Wilson Lagow who is now one of Garrands friends
said in my presence, that if Garrard had applied
to him for a certificate he would let the war
department know how the whigs made him
ride a filly

As it respect of the
Boatright he is a meddelsom
man and ever in search of offices and verry
un[illegible]full in obtaining them, 

Given under my hand this 2nd day of March 1835
Peter Mcmekill


State of  Illinois}
[[illegible] County

[illegible] before me
this 2 day of March this 1835
William Wilson  JP SEAL
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Commonwealth of Kentucky} 
                         Trigg County. }Set. 

We Joel Wilson, Thomas Briant, Thomas Young 
and William Young, Citizens of the aforesaid County of Trigg, do hereby certify that we have been acquainted with Absalom Humphries who has signed the foregoing affidavit for upwards of twenty 
years, and that we know him to be a man of 
high and unblemished character, of good 
standing, and has during all our acquaintence 
with him maintained a character for honesty & truth 

Given under my hand this 30th day 
of October, 1832 

Joel Wilson 
Wm Young 
Thomas Young 
Thomas Briant 

Commonwealth of Kentucky} 
Trigg County ⎬ Set
 
William Cannon Clerk of the County Court 
for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Joel Wilson William
Young, Thomas Young and Thomas 
Briant, who have signed their names to the 
above certificate, and know them to be men 
of good character for honesty and truth 

Given under my hand this 30th 
day of October, 1832 
Will Cannon
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Trigg County [illegible]

I Levi Lancaster Eldest and presiding Justice of
the County Court for the County aforesaid do here
by certify that William Cannon who subscribed
his name to the within Certificate is Clerk of One
Court aforesaid and that I believe him to be well
acquainted with Joel Wilson  William Young,
Thomas Young and Thomas Bryant and that due
faith and credit should be paid to his attestation &c

given under my hand and seal this 30th
day of October 1832

Levi Lancaster SEAL
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the Hall
James L Edwards
G Pension Agent
Washington City
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Illinois Palestine Nov 10th 1834 
Dear Sir we the undersigned having seen,
 a letter of yours [illegible] to William Garrard 
 an old Solder in the revolutionary war
do hereby certify that we have been  personally acquainted with the said Wm Garrard for some
twenty years  and have never heard any 
thing derogatory to his character and that 
as [illegible] as we are able to judge from 
[illegible] appearances we believe him to 
an honest upright man and that the 
Statements made by said David Mc Gahey are
[illegible] and which you will see by reference 
to depositions that he [illegible] have obtained 
from sundry [illegible] of respect [illegible] we now 
think it i[illegible]to trouble you with a long catalogue
 of study therefore we refer you to 
Genl. John  Robinson our Senator who can 
inform you our standing &c
To the off  of James L. Edwards         
                                            
                                             Wilson Lagow    20 years
                                                       his             30 years
                                                  [illegible]
                                                       mark                  
                                       William Hightsmith  14 years                     
                                              Alred G Lagow  who has 
                                             been acqainted with him 
                                            for at least 15 years 
                                         William Edgareton 
                                            Isaac N Wilson 
                                             Dan Wales 
                                             Jaba Hale
                                             Thos Gill I have been 
                                              aquented this 18 yr
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George Baugher
James Mc Cord for I have ben
aquanted with said Wm Garrad
[illegible] since 1810
Gabriel Frank
James Highsmith 10 years
J. T. Vandeventer 13 years
David Porter 15 years
G W Bratton 17 years
Jotha Brashaw 25 years
[illegible] been  acquainted
with him -  12 years -
James Boatright been
Acquainted with him 10 years
Jonathan Purcell - - - 20 years
James Moore - - - - 19 years
D Boatright- 13 years
Daniel Vanwinkel 17 years
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Free

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr of Pensions.
War department.
Washington
City

[vertical]
Palestine   Ills 
Jany 8 June 19

Wm Garrard Sr
Ills
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Palestine Ill. June 5th 1835

Dear Sir

The enclosed was expected to have been sent
by the last mail, with the other papers, but could
not be had on the account of Judge Kitchell being
sick.  Judge Kitchell has been for upwards of fourteen,
years, and is yet Register of the land office
at this place. He understands the motives of
those who have taken such a woven part in favor
of Mr Garrard, I made no statements to you respecting
Garrard but such as was in general
circulation, I did then and do yet believe the
reports to be true, But I think you will [illegible]
 from the testimony I have sent you that I
have not founded my belief on flying report:
but on testimony adopt from his own lips,
to say any thing in favor of Judge Kitchells
standing as a gentleman or an officer would be
useless, as his being continued so long in
the land office is sufficient proof in his
favor,
With respect

David McGahey

J.L. Edwards Esq
Com. Pensions,
Page 121

May 22nd 1835, Ill,
David McGahey,
has this morning shown me a coppy
of certain certificates which was sent to the war
department favorable to William Garrard 's for getting a pension,
to which my name is affixed, I do declare
to the best of my knowledge that I never saw
the one to which my name is placed. the one
bearing date Feby 13th 1835. is the one I signed.
I could have no interest in certifying to a falsity
which I certainly would have done, if I had
put my name where it appears on the
recommendation that says "we have seen a letter of
yours" &, I never saw any letter of yours,
again it says "relative to William Garrard an
old soldier in the revolutionary war" & notwithstanding
I lived in S. Carolina where he should have performed
his services, and spent a considerable
portion of my time in the service of my country,
I knew nothing of such a man, and him and me
has talked on the subject frequently, and notice
that ending, my situation in the army being an
officer give me every opportunity of knowing men
I can have no recollection of any such man,
neither could he ever give me any satisfactory
account of his officers or services in the war,
and I have never heard the first person say
the believed by a whig, But common report
classed him with the torries, as such you
can see there must have been lose conduct in
the matter, and what I call forgery,
I understand Umphrey Barnet is the officer who
certified for Garrard, I dont wish to speak
disrespetfull of my fellow soldiers,
Page 122

But much say Barnet was not esteemed as a
man of integrity, In fact he was what I
call a bad man,
whereunto I set my hand, and which I would
be willing to certify on oath this 22nd day of
May 1835.
Thos Gill

Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Palestine Ills May 22d 1835
I Daniel Vanwinkle do hereby certify that I
never signed any but the one recommendation
in favor of William Garrard said hearing date
of Feb 13th 1835 which was only relative to
his private character, and as to his being
an old revolutionary soldier I know nothing
about it, and I have never seen any letter
from you on the subject of Garrard's getting
a pension - neither do I know any thing
of David M Gahey's stating untruths,
the common report is that Garrard a
tory in the old revolution
Daniel Vanwinkle
.
Page 123


Free
Hon. Richd M. Johnson
 Senator in Congress
Washington City
D.C.

Stamp:
VINCENNES 
FEB
1
*I*
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Palestine Ill. Jan 29. 1836

Hon. R. M. Johnson

Sir,

I take the liberty of addressing
you altho; a stranger in person an
acquaintance in the politics of the Nation
as knowing you to be a uniform friend
to the War-worn soldier, and as being
acquainted with the lots and sufferings
of a camp-life. I wish to call your attention
in the application of Wm Garrard Son of
Crawford County, Illinois for a pension
for Revolutionary services rendered in the State of South Carolina in the years 1780 & 1.
as to his claim I refer you to the affidavit
of Absolom Humpries of Trigg County, Kentucky
please ask the Rep. from that dist. As to M.L.
character to the affidavit of Hezekiah West of
Johnson County, Illinois. M. West was 
a member of the Convention at the formation
of the Constitution of Ill. and please see
Hon. Z. Casey as to Mr. West character, you will
also see on file in the proper dept a number
of Certificate as to his genl good character
with whom Genl Robinson our senator is well
acquainted, M.G. stands charged before the
department with being a tory by a letter written by D. McGahey of Cr:Co. Ill. a copy of which
I have in my possession from J. L. Edward
Esq. Will you be so good as to procure a copy
of all the charges and letters against Garrard
and forward to me. All that I wish is that fair
and impartial justice may be meeter out
have not the pleasure of yr personal acquaintance
but will refer you as to my standing to the Hon
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Jno M. Robinson The Hon. T. H. Bunton The Hon
Felix Grundy The Hon Jas R Polk and to his
Excellency And: Jackson, please write to me
and let me know what is alleged by the
accuser agt.  the accused, yr attention to this
request will confer a lasting obligation of your
friend

Daniel Boatright
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Free

Mr
J. L. Edwards,
Commr of Pensions,
War department,
Washington City.

Palestine Ills Apl. 16
April 6
Wm Garrard Sr,Ills
Page 127

being caled on by William Garrard to Sign a
certificate of his character as a citizen, not knowing
any thing materially injurious to him in that
respect I put my signature to his paper, But
has learned since that the paper states that
David McGahey had communicated falseties
to the war department respecting Garrard.
as good as saying McGahey was a liar,
I do hereby certify the paper contained nothing
respecting McGahey when I signed it,
some of my family read the paper as 
well as myself. And further Mc
Gahey and me has been familar for nearly
twenty years, and I have never knew
or heard of him departing departing from
the truth
Thos Gill
April 6th 1835


Dear Sir,  I here send you a little sample of their
conduct, and did intend to add several more, But
was disappointed, this day (Saturday) I intended to go and
obtain more certificates, respecting their base conduct.
But being old, my health feeble, and the day very
stormy, I had to [illegible] it; and as the mail leaves us on
monday, and wishing to give you information as
soon as posible I just send you this certificate of
Mr Gills, a respectable old gentleman and one who
draws a Captains pension, and one whome the boast
high on obtaining as him and we were old friends,
with respect,

David McGahey
March 4th 1835
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Palestine Ill. March 6th 1839,

 My Dear Sir
  
Through Mr Casey, requested from you a coppy of Mr. Waggoners certificate to Mr Garrard relative to his pension. In answer you say, "that consistly with the rules, a coppy of the affidavit of Mr Waggoner in the case of William Garrard cannot be furnished until the object for which it wanted be first made known" 
My object was to assertain whether a true coppy had been sent on which I think is at least is doubtfull, As it appears unreasonable 
to suppose an honest man would disprove on oath, to accommodate a man who had repeatedly given sufficent evidence from his own 
lips, that he was not entitled to the accomodation, which is the 
case in the present instance. ⌨ ⌨ 
There are sufficient testimony here, who have heard Mr Garrard say that he had never served as a soldier any regular length of time 
in the war. This I have had lately from their own lips, and further 
that the heard him say, that when he was in the British camp 
he would profess to be a great friends to them. But as soon as he got an opertunity he would leave them. And likewise when the Amer=
cians whould take him to camp he would profess to be a friend to them. But as soon as an oppertunity would save run away from 
them. This accounts for certain man seeing him in the Army as a soldier, and likewise for his riding the filly, 
Now I think by uniting this with the mass of testimony you have already received in opposition to the pension. It must be seen that Garrard
has had to get testimony to disprove his own repeated declarations before he could succeed, or in plain English to prove himself a liar 
I had nothing in view at first. But to keep goverment from being imposed uppon, but politics crept in by certain men, or else it 
would not have succeed, You now can discover my reasons for 
wanting a coppy. Further if it should meet your approbation to 
comply with my request; I would be glad to have the names 
of those who certified for Garrard in the first instance. As I am 
told there were some verry wide mistakes made them, 
Your compliance will be received with gratitude, and if it 
should be necessary and honest report communicated you 

 Yours with the utmost respect 

David McGahey

J L Edwards Esq
comm of pensions
Page 129

State of Illinois.    ⎬ss
Crawford County ⎬This day personally appeared before me the under signed an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County Aforesaid said George Baithe the same man named in a letter [illegible]
by David Mc Gahey to Governor Cass acusing 
William Garrand of being a tory in the Revolu tionary war and I now state in positive terms 
that I never did state to said David Mc Gahey
that said Garrard was a tory but I have every reason to belief that said Garrard was in 
the Revolutionary war and a true friend to 
[illegible] and I further do believe he is intitled 
to a pension this [illegible] further saith that he has be aquainted with the said William Garrard 
for ninteen years and the William Garrard was 
[illegible] of an [illegible] my man
and further this the Deponant saith not 

his 
George X Baithe 
mark 

I hereby Certify that the above affadavit was signed and sworn to before me this fourth day 
of November 1834 

Robert Haskins jp

 I do hereby certify that I have known the 
above named George Baithe for ninteen years and believe that full faith is due and should be given 
to his testimony given under my hand this 4th day of November 1834 

Robert Haskin J P
Page 130

Revolutionary 
papers
Wm Garrard
Page 131

State of Illinois    }
Crawford County}.  Scty

I Edward H. Piper Clerk of
the County Commissioners Court for the and State aforesaid  I do certify that Robert
Haskin whose  name  is subscribed to the
within certificates is an acting Justice of the
Peace in the County and State aforesaid
and that he is entitled to full faith and
Credit in all his actings and doings as such

Given under my hand as clerk this
17th day  December 1834

SEAL

Edward H Piper. Clk
Page 132

The undersigned citizens of Crawford County
State of Illinois do hereby certify that we
have been acquainted with William Garrard
[illegible] for many years that sd - is a citizen
of this County and have no hesitation in
saying that he is a correct, upright man
and of good character for honesty, veracity
[illegible]

In Testimony whereof we have hereunto
set our hands this 13th Feby 1835

Wilson Lagow  SEAL

John Vandeventer SEAL

Dan F Hale.  SEAL

Daniel Vanuncle  SEAL

Alfred G Lagow. SEAL

Daniel Hubbell SEAL

A M Houston  SEAL


State of Illinois    }
Crawford County}  Set
Dan F Hall
Before me the undersigned Justice of
the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid
personally came Wilson Lagow John Vandeventer Daniel Hale
Daniel Vanwinkle Alfred G. Lagow Daniel Hubble A M Houston
Dan frost Hale
who are personally known to me to be men of
respectability and in whose statements full
faith and credence may be reposed and made
oath that the above contains the truth in relation
to the character of Wm Garrard Sen.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and but at Palestine this 14th Feby 1835.
D Boatright  JP
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State of Illinois
Crawford County

I Edward H Piper Clerk of the County
Commissioners Court of said County, do
hereby certify that Daniel Boatright Esq.
before whom the within affidavit
was made, and whose name appears Signed to the same, was at the time of subscribing said
Certificate, and still is an acting Justice of the
Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned
and qualified as such, and that full faith
and credit is due and should be given to all
his official acts as such

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Palestine February 14th AD 1835

Edward H. Piper Ck

SEAL
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Palestine  Illinois
Feby 14 1835

Mr J. L. Edwards
War Department
Pension office
W. Cty

Sir Enclosed and foregoing you have the certificate
of several Citizens of this county made under oath
and authenticated as you are pleased to said
in your letter under date 24 Jany last to H. Clay
and you are respectfully referred to the Hon.
John M. Robinson and Zadoc Casey out of the Senate
and the other of the House of Reps: as to the
Character and standing of the affiants
President Jackson and Mr Donaldson are
both personally acquainted with Genl
A. M Houston the last signer to the aforesaid
affidavits who was some years since a Lient
in the army under Genl. Jackson
your immediate attention to this matter of Mr
Garrard will be an act of justice to an
innocent and injured man and will be greatfully
acknowledged by yr. friend

Alfred G. Lagow
Page 135

I Greenberry Rawden do declare that I have been personally
acquainted with William Garrard of the County of Crawford and State of
Illinois who is an applicant for a pension as a soldier engaged for the
the now United States in the revolutionary war - That I knew said
Garrard when he resided in Chester County State of South Carolina
in or about the year 1783, and continued to be acquainted with him for
about thirty years in the State of South Carolina in the same neighborhood
not more than four miles from him - after that time I moved to
the State of Kentucky Christian County - Said Garrard afterwards
moved to the same place and we lived neighbors about three years.
I then moved to the State of Tennessee Perry County where I now
reside. Said Garrard after I left Kentucky moved to the State of
Illinois - and I have not seen him since until I have come
on business to the State of Illinois at this time where said Garrard
now resides - Said Garrard was allways reputed an honest man and
bore the character for truth and veracity and I am fully convinced
that implicate belief may be placed in his testimony
Greenberry Rawden

State of Illinois
Crawford County 
I do Certify that the above named
Greenberry Rawden personally appeared
before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for said
and signed the above statement and was duly sworn by me that
it is true as stated above -
William Wilson J.P.
Page 136

Palestine Ill, May 30th 1835

Dear Sir

Your letter, and the coppy of Garrard certficates, has been duly received, for which I kindly
thank you. And I have taken some pains to comply
with your request, which was to see whether there
had been any forgery committed in the Garrard
case, I think when you read the different certificate
herein inclosed, you will be at no loss to see that
there has been intrigue, and forgery in the whole
business from first to last, and that I have established every statement I made to you respecting
Garrard.  They have cited you to Gen Robinson
to establish their characters, I know some of those
who signed them were men of good character, and
my friends, but were deceived, but I think some
of their characters would look a little black on
paper, these are his main backers, and Gen. 
Robinson, knows something about a trial or two in
court,     I do not wish to be at any more
trouble in the matter, and hopes you will
being the thing specially to a close. However as
as to that you certainly are at liberty to do as
you think proper
Yours with the utmost respect

David McGahey

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions,