Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4774, Joseph Hawthorn, S.C.

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SERVICE
S.C.
Hawthorn, Joseph
Frances
NUMBER
R. 4774
CONTENTS

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Illinois 26179
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Joseph Hawthorn of White Co in the State of Ill who was a [illegible] in the company commanded by Captain Pearson of the Regt commanded by Col Wynne in the So Carolina line for [illegible]
[illegible] $60.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois at the rate of $60 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of March 1834 and Sent to Wm. T. Page, Carmi, Ill
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Arrears to the 4th of March 184.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 30.00
$210.00
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Revolutionary Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J T Sprague
Book C Vol. 8 Page

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Illinois
White County
On this 4th day of March 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of County Commissioners for said County of White now sitting Joseph Hawthorn a resident of said White County & State aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.

That he entered his service of the United States in the Spring 1777 under Captain Jho Pearson Lieutenant [illegible] regiment [illegible] led by Col. Jho. Wynn. That he was a volunteer and resided in Fairfield Co on Broad River South Carolina. That he marched from his place of residence down to Augusta Georgia where he joined Gen. Williamson thence down to the Black Swamp thence to Bacon's Bridge, thence to Charleston and was engaged in the battle of Stono. Gen Lincoln commander of the Southern Army, Col. Pulaski was engaged at the battle, that soon after the battle he was discharged having been in service three months, the period for which he volunteered.  That he again entered the service in the month of July 1781 at that time under Captain Thomas Parrot Lt. Jans Proctor Regiment commanded by Col. Thos Taylor Lt. Col. Joe Kirkland, that he resided as above and marched down to four holes where he joined Gen. Henderson. That he was stationed at that place sometime and afterwards at Orangeburgh during the time he was stationed at Orangeburgh he was sent across the

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whilst scouting and in pursuit of Major sometimes called [illegible Black?] Bill Cunningham. A Tory that during this term of his service he was absent from service in May & June 1782, about four weeks. That he continued from the month of July 1781 until the last of December 1782. Soon after Charleston was given up by the enemy. With the exception about four weeks as above stated. That Gen. Greene was commander of the Southern army - during the period of service. That he recollects Co. Washington & Col. Lee of the Dragoons.
That he was born in the County of Monagan Ireland on the 10 July 1756 has no record of his age. That at Fairfield Co after the war 10 years then he removed to Elbert Co Georgia resided there 10 years then to Henderson County Kentucky there 17 years then to this county where he has since resided. That he cannot now recollect the names of any of the officers or regiments with which he served except those mentioned above. That he has no documentary evidence never having received a written discharge. That Robert Hawthorn will testify to his service and Pete Miller as to knowledge of some part of it. That Hosea Pearce and Sidney North are persons to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood and will testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Joseph Hawthorn his mark X

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Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ja Ratcliff Clk
Add after Signature that he died Oct 30, 1849

We Hosea Pearce & Sidney North residing in the County of White hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Hawthorn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 77 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in this neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we could be that aforesaid.
Hosea Pearce
Sidney North
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ja Ratcliff Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigations of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary solider and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Hosea Pearce & Sidney North who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the county of White are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. In the opinion of the Court the applicant could not produce a clergyman without too much inconvenience & expense to him.
Andrew Stoney
Josiah McKnight
Hugh Wasson

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And on the day and year aforesaid personally appeared in open Court Robert Hawthorn aged [blank] years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on this oath depose and say that he is well acquainted with Joseph Hawthorn that he served with him in the Revolutionary War for three months, that they entered the service together in the spring of 1779 under Captain Jho. Pearson in Col. Jho. Wynn's regiment that they were at the battle of Stono and discharged soon after. And he further declares that he the said Joseph again entered the service in the regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Taylor in the month of July 1781 and that the said Joseph continued in the service as he verily believes until the enemy gave up Charleston. He this deponent was in another regiment during the last tour of service spoken of by said Joseph. But he this deponent often saw said Joseph during said time and never knew of his being absent from service from the time he entered it in July 1781 until soon after the enemy gave up Charleston in Dec. 1782 except about a month in the spring of that year. And further this deponent saith not.
Robert Hawthorn his mark X
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ja Ratcliff Clk

And also on this day and year aforesaid personally appeared in open Court Peter Miller aged 65 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose

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and say that he was born in the same neighbourhood with Joseph Hawthorn that he this deponent knew said Joseph during the Revolutionary war & knew of his being in the service of the United States during a part of the war but cannot state with any degree of certainty the periods of his service or in what expeditions he was engaged and further this deponent saith not.
Peter Miller
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ja Ratcliff Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named Robert Hawthorn and Peter Miller are credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit.
Andrew Stoney
Joseph McKnight
Hugh Wasson

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State of Illinois
White County
I James Ratcliff Clerk of the County Commissioners Court for the County of White and State of Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing pages numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 contain the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Joseph Hawthorn for a pension. In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Carmi this 4th day of March AD 1834.
Ja Ratcliff Clk

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Joseph Hawthorn

Wm T Page
Carmi Illinois

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Pleas before the Hon. James Hall presiding Judge of the White Circuit Court State of Illinois on Wednesday the 19th day of October 1825
This day Joseph Hawthorn came into Court and made the following declaration in order to be placed on the pension list which declaration is in these words
State of Illinois County of White
On the 19th day of October 1825 personally appeared in Open Court, being the circuit Court for said County of White and a Court of record Joseph Hawthorn resident in said County, aged seventy years nearly, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Joseph Hawthorn enlisted for the term of during the war as a Volunteer a little more than one year before the end of the War of "81, (the exact day he cannot recollect further than it was immediately after the City of Charleston fell into the hands of the British) in the State of South Carolina in the company commanded by Capt. John Pierson in the regiment commanded by Col. Richard Wynne in the line of the State of South Carolina on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the end of the war when he was discharged from the service

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in the neighbourhood of Charlestown in the State of South Carolina that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present, and that his name is not on the roll of any state as a pensioner; and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension that untill within a few years his family has been living about him and he was still able to do some work, but that they have since left him except his wife, one son who is at his own disposal and a grand daughter and he is now less able from his bodily decline to support himself. He further states that about a year ago he was desirous to apply for a pension but could find no one possessed of the forms of application untill now. And in pursuance of the act of 1st of May 1820. I do solomonly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain

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persons engaged in the land and name service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed in the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here unto annexed and by me subscribed, that my occupation is that of a farmer that my family consists of myself & wife my son and my grand daughter, my age is seventy next July & my wife fifty three the 7th day of November next-- that we are both very infirm and that I am unable without the aid of charity to procure a support
Schedule of Joseph Hawthorns property
3 Cows and calves - 21.00
2 ploughs - 12.00
1 pair chains - 1 wedge & clevis - 3.00
1 drawing knife & 2 chisels - 1.00
household furnature - 10.00
one ax - .75
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$47.75
no bond notes or debts
Joseph Hawthorne his mark X

The above sworn to and declared on the 19th day of October 1825 before the undersigned in open Court
James Hall presiding Judge of the White Circuit Court

White County
I James Ratcliff Clerk of the Circuit court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Joseph Hawthorn did serve in the

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revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the common enemy for the term of one year and more immediately preceeding its termination, under one engagement, on the continental establishment, I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is forty seven Dollars and seventy five cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this 19th day of October 1825
Ja Ratcliff

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19,857
Joseph Hawthorn
White Co Illinois
application
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James Ratcliff
Carmi, Illinois
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Recd. 4 Jan. 1826
4776 Rejected
See letter 14 January 1826 to James Ratcliff Esq Carmi, Illinois

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Declaration by the Heir
State of Illinois
County of White
On this 18 day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, personally appeared before me Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for said County, Robert H. Hawthorn forty seven years the tenth day of September last and a resident of Benton County in the State of Tennessee who first being duly sworn according to law says on his oath that he is the only son and Child a line of Joseph Hawthorn and Francis Hawthorn both now deceased that he makes this declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress granting pensions to certain Widows of Revolutionary officers and soldiers whose marriage took place before the first day of January 1800. That his father Joseph Hawthorn was a resident of White County in the State of Illinois for a time over twenty years before his death that his father Joseph Hawthorn drew a Pension at Carmi in the State of Illinois at the rate of sixty dollars per annum until the year 1842 and afterwards drew his Pension at Springfield in the state of Illinois up to his death which Death took place on the 30th day October AD 1849 that widow Frances Hawthorn and Mother of the present affiant died on the 16th day of November in the County of White in the State aforesaid as he has been informed verily believes that he has no record of his father and mother's marriage that he must depend on parol proof for proof of their Marriage that he has no doubt of their shared years before the year 1800 from the fact that he has been informed by his father and mother that he had three brothers who died before the affiant was bore.

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That he has been further informed that there was about two years between all his children that she had only one child Younger who died seven years ago last August in White County in the State of Illinois without [illegible] is ever being married that from the last recollection of his father Joseph Hawthorne and his mother Frances Hawthorn language they were married in the State of Georgia the County he has forgot if he ever knew what the year 1796. And for further proof depends on the proof hereunto annexed. Sworn to and subscribed to the day and date above written.
Robert H. Hawthorn
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of February AD 1852 and do certify that I believe the above named Robert H Hawthorn to be the same man who served. Given under my hand and the seal of said court the day & year last aforesaid.
Solomon Vories Clk

State of Illinois
County of White
On the 18th day of February 1852 before the undersigned clerk of the circuit court in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Daniel Hay who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says, that he was the Pension Agent for the state of Illinois from the year 1831 to the year 1841, that Jospeh Hawthorn a resident of the County of White was inscribed on the Pension List of this agency under the act of the 7th June 1832 at the rate of sixty dollars per annum and pair by deponent in person up to the year 1841 when the agency was removed to Springfield and after wards he aided in drawing his pension up to the 4th of September 1849 that said Hawthorn died shortly thereafter, and

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kind was drawn by Fanny or Francis his widow up to the day of his death that to the knowledge of this deponent Robert H Hawthorn who has signed the forgoing declaration, is the reputed son of the said Joseph and Frances and the only child who is living, or was at the time of the death of his parents.
Daniel Hay
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 18th day of February AD 1852.
Given under my hand and the seal of said court the day and year last aforesaid.
Solomon Vories Clk

State of Illinois
County of White
On this 23 day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared Before me Arthur L. Johnson a justice of the peace within and for said County Margaret Fowler aged sixty five years the 17th day of June last who first being duly sworn according to law says on her oath that Robert H. Hawthorn is the son and only child a live of of Joseph Hawthorn and Frances Hawthorn that his father Joseph Hawthorn and Frances Hawthorn was Married in the State of Georgia in the County of Elbert on the 5th day of September One thousand eight hundred and ninety seven that she was not present at the Marriage is tares but she was at their fair the next day the reasons why she knows and remembers the particular day and year is that the said Joseph Hawthorn was her father that it was his second marriage that her mother was dead that she knows that the said Joseph Hawthorn was married from the fact that she has known him up to the day of his death which took place on the 30th day of October 1849 that Frances Hawthorn died on the 16th day of November 1851 as is well understood in the neighbourhood that she knows that there is no other legal heir of Frances Hawthorn except Robert H Hawthorn the subscriber to the foregoing declaration

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That from every circumstance that could present itself to her she knows they were married at the time by her stated that she knows the age of the subscriber to the foregoing declaration Robert H. Hawthorn to be forty seven years the 10th day of September last. She further states that she is disinterested.  Sworn to and subscribed the day and date above written.
Margaret Fowler her mark X
A. L. Johnson J. P.

State of Illinois
County of White
on this 23rd day of February A.D. 1852 personally appeared Arthur Fowler aged seventy two years last May Before me Arthur L Johnson a justice of the peace within and for said County who first being duly sworn according to law says on his oath that he is personally acquaint with Robert H. Hawthorn the subscriber to the foregoing declaration that he is the only child a live of Joseph and Frances Hawthorn now deceased that he has been acquainted with Joseph Hawthorn and Frances Hawthorn about fifty two years ago in the State of Georgia in Elbert County that they then lived together as husband and wife that it was well understood that they were married that he never had it doubted that he was acquainted with them up to the day of their deaths which took place about the date set forth by the said Robert H. Hawthorn that the said Joseph Hawthorn the Father of Robert H. Hawthorn and husband of Frances Hawthorn deceased drew a pension at the rate of $60.00 per Annum that from information that he cannot doubt they were married in the year 1797. that deponent further states on his oath he is disinterested. Sworn to and subscribed this 23 day of Feb 1852
A. L. Johnson J.P.
Arthur Fowler his mark X

State of Illinois
County of White
I Arthur L. Johnson a Justice of the peace and in and for said County do certify that Margaret Fowler and Arthur Fowler was duly sworn and did subscribe their names as above that they are credible witnesses and that I believe all the facts set forth in their affidavits to be true Given under my hand seal this 23rd day of February A.D. 1852
A. L. Johnson J. P. Seal

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Joseph Hawthorn
Illinois
Adm 1 year & 6 Months

Wm T Page
Carmi
White County
Illinois

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
24 March 1834
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 shew 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 compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement shewing the Service of Joseph Hawthorn
Period which the service was rendered.
Duration of the claimant's service. Years. Months. Days.
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
1779 3 [mos.] priv. Cap. Pearson
Col. Wynne
1781 Cap. Parrot
Col. Taylor
77 years, Fairfield, So. Ca.
I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commission of Pensions.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians 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 } ss.
County of
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
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
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 applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the 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 days and year aforesaid.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed 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 tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be 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 war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier, Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
To an Officer, Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can 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 the 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 neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary 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 inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
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 a 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.
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(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 in 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.
(d) 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 a -. 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 such applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three of four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they 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 competent 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 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 the seal of office.
(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.

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May 23, 1934

The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Washington D.C.

Joseph Hawthorn
R. 4774
BA-J/WCS

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Joseph Hawthorne who served in the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 4774, based upon the military service of Joseph Hawthorn or Hawthorne.
He was born July 10, 1756, in County Monaghan, Ireland,
While living in Fairfield County, South Carolina, he enlisted and served as private with the South Carolina troops as follows: from the spring of 1779, served three months in Captain John Pearson's company in Colonel Richard Winn's regiment and was in the battle of Stono Ferry; from sometime in July, 1781, until the last of December, 1782, with the exception of about one month in May or June, 1782, in Captain Thomas Parrott's company in Colonel Thomas Taylor's regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 4, 1834, at which time he was a resident of White County, Illinois.
He died October 30, 1849, in White County, Illinois.
The application for headstone, O.Q.M.G. Form #623, is herewith returned.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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Frances Hawthorn dec
widow of Joseph
Ten
Act 29 July 1848

R. 4774

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5
State of Illinois
County of White
On this 25th day of February A.D. 1852 personally appeared John Vineyard aged seventy seven years last August Before me Austin Hill a justice of the peace within and for said County who first being duly sworn according to law say on oath that he was well acquainted with Frances Ellis afterward Frances Hawthorne before her Marriage with Joseph Hawthorn that he also seen said Joseph Hawthorn in Elbert County in the State of Georgia that he the affiant went to the State to Virgina and there stayed untill they year 1799. And again visited Elbert County in the State of Georgia and was then informed that his old acquaintance Frances Ellis and Joseph Hawthorn were married together and had been for some two or three years that he was acquainted with them up to the time of their deaths in the White County in the state of Illinois that the subscriber to the foregoing declaration Robert H Hawthorn is their only child and heir. Also that he truly believes they were married before the date of 1799 from seeing them live together as husband & wife and knowing them to be respectable and moral people.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above Written.
Auston Hill J.P.
John Vineyard his mark X

State of Illinois
County of White
On this 25th day of February AD 1852 Personally appeared Susannah Miller aged seventy three years old before me Austin Hill a justice of the peace in and for said County who first being duly sworn according to the law says on her oath that she was well acquainted with Joseph Hawthorn and Frances Hawthorn his wife in their lifetime this father and mother of Robert H Hawthorn the subscriber to the [smudge] foregoing declaration that she was well acquainted with Joseph Hawthorn before his marriage with his wife that she did not see them married but [illegible] the marriage very well that they

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6
married in Elbert County in the State of Georgia the precise day she cannot remember but believes it took place in the year 1797 that she lived at that time in the same County therefore she well remembers to know when he started to marry Francies Ellis and is a few [illegible]. Afterwards she saw them together and that she knew them up to the day of their deaths which took place in White County in the State of Illinois that she knows that Robert H Hawthorn is their child alive. Sworn to and subscribed to the 25th of Feb. 1852 before me
Austin Hill, J.P.
Susannah Miller her mark X

State of Illinois
County of White
I Austin Hill a justice of the peace in and for said County do certify that John
Vineyard and Susannah Miller being duly sworn and did subscribe their names as above that they are people of good character and credible witnesses given under my hand and seal this 25th day of February 1852.
Austin Hill, J.P.
Justice of the peace

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State of Illinois
County of White
I Isaac Mitchell Clerk of the County Court of White County in the State of Illinois do certify that Arthur L. Johnson is and acting justice of the peace in and for the White County in the State of aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and was such at the date of the foregoing affidavit on page 4 and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine and that Austin Hill is an acting justice of the peace in and for said County of White and State of Illinois duly commissioned and qualified and was such at the date of the foregoing affidavits and the signatures purporting to his are genuine in testimony. I have hereunto set my seal of office as clerk of the Court of White County and subscribe my name as such at Carmi this 27th day of February A.D. 1852
Isaac Mitchell Clerk

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Camden Tennessee March 24th 1853
Sir
We are advocating claims against the Government And we have a great many in your office a few of which have been suspected for we think by slight causes. one in favor of Elizabeth Frazier Widow of Thomas Frazier who drew a pension at Jackson Tennessee at the rate of $96 per annum of course the marriage only was necessary to prove and that it took place before the first day of January 1794 which we have done by the oath of Beaman Fowler who was at the wedding and substantiated by the oath of Hardy Frazier and W. J. Grier and whose credibility is undoubted and some time in december the department required that Mrs. Frazier must prove herself to be alive on the 3rd day of March 1851, which was done in due form up to the 15th of January 1853 and forwarded to J. E. Heath esq. &c The Rule adopted by Mr Heath in our opinion was unjust towards a revolutionary widow for it appears that if their case was suspended the widow must wait until all the cases were examined before any additional testimony could be had the reason why we think it unjust is because they are very old and many of them very poor and if her claim cannot be allowed without the Clerks certificate from Sampson County NC please to inform us for we have Written to the said Clerk several times and have thus far failed to get an answer. Mrs. Frazier informs us that she has tried through the agency of others and have failed entirely. One more case in favor of Robert H. Hawthorn the only heir of Joseph & Frances Hawthorn the proof of Marriage was complete and strong now on file in your office under the act of 29th July 1848 by paral testimony which was inadmissible by Mr. Heath without first obtaining a certificate from the Clerk of the Court of Elbert County Georgia which we procured showing there were no record of any marriage before the date of 1806 and

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should now on file in your office that his father and mother was married in 1797 and we never have heard a word from said Pension claim. We do not wish for our claims to have preference over other Revolutionary claims nor do we grumble if the heirs of Revolutionary claimants have to wait but we believe that such a claim as Mrs. Frazier's might not to be delayed any longer. Also did reflect on Mr. Heath for his long delay in that case and in Mrs. Nancy Finlay for a Mr. Night addressed a letter to Mrs. Finley stating that he ascertained the reason why Mrs. Finley's claim was not allowed and referred her to the Pension office for recommendation. We have Mr. Nights letter, be it far from us that we wish to deter you from your duty but we believe there was something wrong and we wrote plain to Mr. Heath on the July 1st for we may present claims against the government that may be unjust because of their being paid off. We are thankful to learn the facts but we assure you sir we would not advocate a claim against our Government that we even believed was founded in fraud. Please turn to the above cases as they are of long standing if it is consistent with your rules if not, please write so that we may show the claimants why their claims are delayed excuse us for laying the revolutionary claims as all have great admiration for the Revolutionary Soldiers and their widows.
Your obt Servt
Hawthorn & Davidson

P. Waldow Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

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February 5, 1932

Mrs. Frank Rice
Gillespie Illinois
BA-J/MGS 

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of January 15, 1932, requesting information in regard to Joseph Hawthorn, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein are obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 4774, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Hawthorn.
He was born July 10, 1756, in County Monaghan, Ireland.
While living in Fairfield County, South Carolina, he enlisted and served as private with the South Carolina troops as follows:
from the spring of 1779, served three months in Captain John Pearson's Company in Colonel Richard Winn's Regiment and was in the battle of Stono Ferry; from sometime in July, 1781, until the last of December, 1782, with the exception of about one month in May or June, 1782, in Captain Thomas Parrot's Company in Colonel Thomas Taylor's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 4, 1834, at which time he was a resident of White County, Illinois.
He died October 30, 1849, in White County, Illinois.
He married September 5, 1797, in Elbert County, Georgia, Frances Ellis.
She died November 16, 1851, in White County, Illinois.

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In October, 1825, the soldier, Joseph Hawthorn, stated that his wife, her name not given, would be fifty-three years of age the "seventh of November next" and at that time he also referred to a son and a granddaughter but he did not give their names. Robert H. Hawthorn, a son of Joseph and Frances Hawthorn, was born September 10, 1804, and was living in Camden, Benton County, Tennessee, in 1852. In that year Margaret Fowler, who was born June 17, 1786, stated that she was the daughter of Joseph Hawthorn by his first wife, her name not given.
Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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Rev. & 1812 War Section
[illegible]/eel
October 9, 1928

Honorable Joseph T. Robinson
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.

My dear Senator:
In response to your telephone call of October sixth, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 4774, it appears that Joseph Hawthorn was born July 10, 1758, in County, Monaghan, Ireland.
While living in Fairfield County, South Carolina, he enlisted and served as a private with the South Carolina troops as follows:
From the spring of 1779, served three months in Captain John Pearson's Company in Colonel Richard Winn's Regiment and was in the battle of Stono Ferry.
From sometime in July, 1781, until the last of December, 1782, with the exception of about one month in May and June, 1782, in Captain Thomas Parrott's Company in Colonel Thomas Taylor's Regiment.

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He was allowed pension on his application executed March 4, 1834, at which time he was a resident of White County, Illinois,
He died October 30, 1849, in White County, Illinois.
He married September 5, 1797, in Elbert County, Georgia, Frances Ellis. She died November 18, 1851, in White County, Illinois. In October, 1825, the soldier, Joseph Hawthorn, stated that his wife, her name not given, would be fifty-three years of age the "seventh of November next", and at that time he also referred to a son and a granddaughter but he did not give their names. Robert H. Hawthorn, a son of Joseph and Frances Hawthorn, was born September 10, 1804, and was living in Camden, Benton County, Tennessee, in 1852. In that year Margaret Fowler, who was
born June 17, 1788, stated that she was the daughter of Joseph Hawthorn by his first wife, her name not given.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner

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June 5, 1911.
Hon. Robert B. Macon,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Macon:
In response to your letter dated the 2" and received the 3" instant, requesting information for Mr. J. C. Hawthorne of Jonesboro, Arkansas, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in claim R. File No. 4,774, it appears that Joseph Hawthorn was allowed pension on his application executed March 4, 1834, at which time he was a resident of White County, Illinois.
He stated that he was born July 10, 1756, in County Monaghan, Ireland, and resided on Broad river in Fairfield County, South Carolina, when he enlisted in the Spring of 1779, under Captain John Pearson, in Colonel Richard Winn's regiment, was in the battle of Stono, and served three months.
Enlisted in July, 1781, under Captain Thomas Parrott, in Colonel Thomas Taylor's regiment, and served until the last of December, 1782.
Soldier married in Elbert County, Georgia, September 5, 1797, Frances Ellis; he died October 30, 1849, and she died November 16, 1851, in White County, Illinois, leaving only one child in 1852, Robert H. Hawthorn, who was then forty-seven years old.
In 1852, Margaret Fowler, born June 17, 1786, testified that she was the daughter of the soldier by his first wife, whose name is not stated.
Very respectfully,
Co,

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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
WASHINGTON
MAY 18 1934

Memorandum for
The Surgeon General,
Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Treasury Department
The Commissioner of Pensions, Interior Building,
General Accounting Office, F Street, between 4th & 5th, N. W.

1. The attached application has been submitted to this office for Government headstone to be erected at the grave of the decedent named thereon. In order that the proper inscription may be placed on the stone it would be appreciated if your office would verify the name and service on the application, checking and making such corrections in red ink as may be necessary to show the correct spelling of the name and complete designation of the organizations.
2. In addition, please advise State from which decedent came.
Letter from Mrs. C. T. Land, Enfield, Ill. addressed to War Dept.
& application for headstone (O. P. M. G. Form 623) returned

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Gillespie, Ill.
Jan. 15, 1932

Veterans Administration,
Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir, please send me all information you have about
1. Joseph Hawthorn, served in the Revolutionary War from South Carolina. He came to White County, Illinois and died there. He was buried in the Enfield Cemetery. He was pensioned.
2. Robert Hawthorn, a brother of Joseph, served in the Revolutionary War
from South Carolina. He came to White County, Illinois and died there. He was pensioned. 
Thanking you very much I am
Yours sincerely
Bess Kirkwood Rice
(Mrs. Frank Rice Gillespie, Ill.)

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Telephone call from office of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, for history of Revolutionary War record of Joseph Hawthorn, who served under Colonels Thomas Taylor and Richard Winn in the S. C. Troops, and was in the battle of Stono.
October 6, 1928
MMHF

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House of Representatives U.S.
Washington, D.C.

June 2, 1911.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:-
the enclosed communications from Mr. J.C. Hawthorne, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, and the Adjutant General, of the War Department, relative to the military service in the Revolutionary Way of Mr. Joseph Hawthorne, will explain themselves. Please let me know if there is anything contained in the records of your bureau that will disclose the service of the said Hawthorne in the Revolutionary War.
Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience, and I will thank you to return the two enclosures when you reply.
Very respectfully,
R B Macon

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REJECTED
4776
P.O.
Joseph Hawthorn
Service: consolidated with admitted soldier & the papers on file with widow Frances Hawthorn rej. files 4774 J.N.Srced
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for

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REJECTED
4774
P.O.
Francis Hawthorn
Service: widow of Joseph
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis.  Searched for

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1911 June 5. History to Hon. Robt. B Macon
---
1928 Oct. 9 hist to Hon. Jos. T Robinson MCS
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1932 Feb 5 hist. to Mrs Frank Rice MCS
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1934 May 23 Tombstone data to quartermaster Gen. MCS

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State of Georgia
Elbert County
I William B. Nelms ordinary in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that there is no record in my office of the License or marriage of Joseph Hawthorn and Frances Ellis. There is no record of marriage in my office previous to the year 1806. Given under my hand and seal of office Given at office in Elberton in Elbert County Georgia this the twenty fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Two.
Wm. B. Nelms ordinary

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Camden Tennessee March 24th 1852
Sir
Enclosed I send you a claim in my own favor that was due my mother Frances Hawthorn late Widow of Joseph Hawthorn. I presume you know there were no license in the State of Georgia at the date of my father and mother's marriage. I have introduced four Witnesses to prove their marriage so that I think the department cannot doubt the marriage before the first day of January 1800. Also I have introduced the first pension agent to identify my father and myself. Please refer to your lists on the Illinois Pension Roll and have my pension payable at Jackson, Tenn for I can say to
you that I believe that Mr. Tomlin is a gentleman of undoubted merit, but not more so than Mr. J. M Smith of Nashville but Jackson is nearer to me. Your immediate attention and and answer is Respectfully solicited.
Your Obt Servt
Robert H. Hawthorn

J. E. Heath Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

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Hon. J.G. Harris
July 30 1852

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354
Pension Office
July 30 1852

Sir
I have the honor to return the letter of R H Hawthorn and to inform you that he has not furnished the evidence required of him to complete the case ^of Elizabeth Frazier^ in my letters of Jany 25 and Octo 15 1851. And until he does so, the claim cannot be allowed.
The case of Frances Hawthorn was examined July 7 1852 and he informed of the result.

Hon. J.G. Harris
H of Reps

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Robt. H. Hawthorn
July 7, 1852

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Pension Office
July 7 1852

Sir
The Declaration made by yourself for the benefit of the act of 29 July 1848
has been received and filed under that act. The proof marriage between Joseph and Frances Hawthorn is not sufficient. You must produce the certificate of the Clerk of the County in which they were married. Showing the date of that event, or showing that no evidence of it exists in the Office. If you have no record of their marriage you may have a Record of the births of their children and in case the testimony above required can not be procured that will be received, it is not sufficient that witnesses swear
positively that an event took place before 1800. They must show how they recollect so distinctly that such was the case.
Robert H Hawthorn Esq
Camden Tenn

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Camden Oct 20th 1852
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will find the certificate of the County Court clerk of the County of Elbert in the State of Georgia where my father and mother Joseph Hawthorn and Frances Ellis were married showing there is no marriages prior to the date of 1806. Therefore the parol testimony
Will now be admissible. in my declaration I stated that I had no record testimony nor had I any knowledge of the existence of any which I intended at the time to show the department that I did not believe that any existed for I had been informed that in 1806 the old record was destroyed but on the reception of your letter I considered that my knowledge or language was not strong enough to admit parol testimony in a State where there were license issued. Therefore I took the earliest opportunity to send for the proof of absence of record testimony. In your communication to me you stated that witnesses must state the time of their marriage and not with the broad statement of the marriage before the 1st day of January 1800. Now please to examine the testimony of Mrs. Fowler who swears to the day and date. The other witness could not recollect so well the day and date but all knew that they were married before the first day of Jan 1800. And once review of the testimony as it is now admissible you will find that their marriage was solemnized without a doubt by a strong [illegible] of evidence more than is common to establish a marriage of that time. Please refer to it as it has [illegible] to its turn long time. It has been the practice of the pension department to give all such cases immediate attention. As soon as this proof was made

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admissible. In the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Frazier widow of Thomas Frazier I would respectfully urge her claim as she is old and justly entitled to a stipend under the several Acts of Congress as amendments of the Act of 1838. In all sense of justice I would urge her claim a a long suspended claim
and as her marriage took place in North Carolina I presume it is well known to the pension department there were no marriage license in said State.
Therefore it is not necessary to prove the nonexistance of a thing that never did it exist and it known to the department. Is it not your rule in suspend cases to issue warrants or certificates of Pension as soon as other proof is exhibited to place on file
Your Obedient Servt
Robert H Hawthorn

J.E. Heath Esq
Commission of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

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Camden Tennessee July 30th 1853

Sir - Enclosed we send you the claim of John Haveriel for Bounty Land. We as usual expect investigation. According to its time. Your obt Servts
Hawthorn & Davidson
L. P. Waldo Esgr
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir - We hope you will consider the claim of Robert H. Hawthorn the only heir of Frances Hawthorn widow of Joseph Hawthorn as we have sent you the certificate of the County Court Clerk of Elbert County Georgia showing there were no record proof of marriage before the date of 1806. An examination of the proof exists on file in your office it is clearly shown that his father and mother were married in 1797 by Peggy Fowler & other witnesses. The said R. H. Hawthorn is the same now signing this record as a partner here.
Hawthorn & Davidson
L.P. Waldo Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Hawthorn's claim is filed under the act 29th July 1848

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Camden Ten  May the 20th 1854
Sir
Enclosed we send the affidavit of Robert H. Hawthorn the [illegible] partner of this firm. We have both seen and know that the certificate referred was [illegible]. And we have tried to get one other from the clerk of the court of Elbert Cty Georgia but have totally failed. We hope will be sufficient to justify [illegible] to on the proof now on file in your office.
In the case of Sarah Adams application for Bounty land you sent [illegible] to know that Captain's name. We sent you the affidavit of the widow and received no answer. We sent you husbands certificate of discharge Capt J. Williams Company of [illegible]. We hope you will get the case.
Your Obt Servent
Hawthorn & Davidson

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Hawthorn & Davidson
May 30/54

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563
Pension Office,
May 30, 1854

Gentlemen,
I have received and filed the affidavit of Robert H Hawthorn, designed as evidence in the claim of the heirs of Francis Hawthorn, widow of Joseph, a revolutionary pensioner.
I respectfully refer you to my previous letters in respect to this case. There can be no doubt that upon proper application a Certificate may be procured from the Clerk of the County in which the marriage of Joseph and Francis is alleged to have taken place.
Very respectfully
&c

Messrs. Hawthorn & Davidson
Camden, Tennessee

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Hawthorn & Davidson
June 29/53

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460
Pension Office June 24 1853

Gentlemen
On the 7 of July 1852 Robt. H Hawthorn Esq was informed as to what character of proof was necessary to complete the case of Francis Hawthorn widow of Joseph of Tenn - Act 29 July 1848. No additional evidence has been received since that time in any way to remove the objections there [illegible] against its admission.

Messrs. Hawthorn & Davidson
Camden Tenn

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State of Tennessee
Benton County
On this 19 day of May 1854 personally appeared before me Joseph A. Pope a justice of the peace in and for said County Robert H Hawthorn aged forty nine years the 10th of September last who first being duly Sworn according to law says on his oath that he is the Identical Robert H. Hawthorn who filed his declaration in White County in the State of Illinois for the residue of Pension due his mother Francis Hawthorn Widow of Joseph Hawthorn, that he has made application to the Clerk of the Court of Elbert County in the State of Georgia and received a certificate with the County Seal Annexed purporting to be from the Clerk that no record of any marriage was in his office prior to the date of 1806. And that from the proof now on file in the Pension office as he has been officially informed he believes his father and mother above named was married 1797. And he further believes there is no record of said marriage either private or public therefore he depends on the parol testimony now on file in the Pension office for proof said marriage and that said affiant is the only heir at law now alive Sworn to and subscribed the day and date first above written
Before me
Joseph A. Pope
Robert H. Hawthorn

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State of Tennessee
Benton County
I Joseph A Pope a justice of the peace do hereby Certify that Robert H. Hawthorn the subscriber to the foregoing Affidavit was duly sworn and did subscribed his name that he is personally known to me and that he is a highly credible witness given under my hand as justice of the peace this 19th day of May 1854.
Joseph A Pope [circle seal]
Justice of the peace for Benton County

State of Tennessee
Benton County
I William M McAuley Clerk of the County Court of said Benton County do hereby certify that Joseph A Pope whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and credit is and ought to be due all his official acts that the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that the court of which I am Clerk is a court of record given under my hand and seal of office at Camden this May 20th day 1854
Wm. McAuley Clerk

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No 1108
Frances Hawthorn
dec widow of Joseph
Ten
Robt. H Hawthorn July 7 1832
Hon J.G. Harriss July 30 1832
same Dec 13 1832
Hawthorn & Davidson June 29 1853
same Sep 22 1853
same May 30/54
Act 29 July 1848