Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38723, Anthony Garns, N.C.

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SERVICE   [stamp of a star]    NUMBER
[handwritten]N.C.  Garns, Anthony  S.38723 [/handwritten]


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                        38723
                  
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  Revy
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File No.      38723

            Anthony Garns

           Pri         Rev      War

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Act:  18th March  18th

Index:--Vol.  3   ,     Page   186


               [Arrangement of 1870]

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                             West Tennessee

                                    17999   {redaction]
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 Anthony Garns of Wilson Cty in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hogan of the N Carolina line, for the term of four years
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Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 of September 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of Dec 1820 and sent to Harry L. Douglass, Lebanon, Tenn.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept.  1820            187.73
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March '21    48.
[a handwritten circled note               =====               appears to read                                $235.73
      DB 14/30]                                   ======

                                   {Revolutionary Claim.}
                                   {Act 18th March, 1818}
                                     1 May 1820

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Lebanon Tenn                                  Free
Oct.  30th

        The Honorable John C. Calhoun
                    Secretary of War
                       Washington City

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17,574
old card
Anthony Garns
Wilson Co. Tenn
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Harry L. Douglass,
Agt
Lebanon, Tenn. 
[Redacted] Rec'd 13 Nov, 1820
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Rec'd from Raleigh, N.C.
16 Dec. 1820

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State of Tennessee           Circuit Court
Wilson County         October Term  1820
              On this 27th day of October, 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record made so by act of assembly in the fourth judicial circuit for the County and State aforesaid, Anthony Garns, aged fifty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath made the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820, that he then said Anthony Garns enlisted for the term of three years, early in the spring of 1778 in the State of North Carolina in the Company commanded by Capt Lemuel Eli, in the 7th North Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel James Hogan in the line of the State of North Carolina, on the Continental establishment: and that during his said term of three years, he enlisted for during the war & that he was transferred from the 7th to the 1st North Carolina Regiment,  that he continued to serve in the said Corps, until the spring of 1782 when he was honorably disbanded from the said service at Murfreesborough in North Carolina.  That he was in the battle of Brandywine under Capt Lemuel Eli, of the 7th Regiment, North Carolina Continental troops, in the battle of Monmouth under Capt Tilman Dickson of the first Regt No Carolina Continental troops and in the battle of Charleston where he was taken prisoner under Capt Dickson, and he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the accompanying document, certified and sworn to, before Judge McNary, by Capt Thomas Tatum.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale of in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby

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so to diminish it, so to bring myself within the provision of the act of Congress, entitled, an act, to provide for certain of my age in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or  securities, contracts of debts , due to me; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, by me subscribed, one mare worth $30.00/100, a dutch oven and spinning wheel, three plates and a dish, 2 hoes, and an ax, 1 spade, 1 bridle & saddle and a pitcher, worth about $15.00/100, my occupation is that of farmer, though I am too infirm to work - I have a wife of about 30 years of age and three step children - my wife is healthy and active, my step children are all too young to work, oldest being only nine years of age.
                                                       his
Sworn and Declared on     Anthony  X  Garns
the 27th day of October              mark
1820 before the Court
      H.L.Douglass  Clk

I, H L Douglass, Clerk of Wilson Circuit Court do hereby 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 of the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty nine Dollars ------    In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal, there being no seal of said Court,  on this 27th day of October 1820.

                                   H.L.Douglass  Clk

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State of N. Carolina Secretary's Office 12th Dec 1820.
I, William Hill Secretary of State in & for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears from the musterrolls of the Continental line of this date in the Revolutionary War that Anthony Garns a private in Capt Ely's Compy of the 7th Regt was mustered on the 14th July 1777 for three years or the war.  Nothing said of his discharge.
                  Given under my hand this
                   12th Decr 1820
                         Wm  Hill

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                                        free

Honorable John C. Calhoun
           Department of War
                 Washington             
                         City 

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    Case 2320
In:  McNary
    Judge
Nashville, Tenn
rec'd Oct 5, 1818
   A. Garns

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Wanting the certificate of the judge relative to the reduced circumstances
                                 3 May 1819

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District of West Tennessee
                 Anthony Garns a free man of couler aged fifty nine years a citizen of Wilson County in the State of Tennessee; came before me and claimed to be placed on the pension list of the United States in consequence of his service as a soldier in the revolutionary war---and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he enlisted as a soldier into the continental service early in the year 1777 under the command of Captain Lemuel Eli in the 7th North Carolina continental Reg. commanded by leut James Hogan, Genl Francis Nash commanded the Brigade that he first enlisted for three years and during the term of the said three years he enlisted during the war, having been transferred from the seventh to the first [Inserted] Reg in 1778.  That he faithfully served untill the end of the war.  That he was taken prisoner in Charlestown and made his escape at Haddrals Point and reported himself to Col Murfry and joined troops of Genl Green's Army and served untill the end of the war but was disbanded without a discharge.  That he has the rheumatism and often so affected  that he cannot labor, that his right arm is now in such a situation that he cannot labor without great pain.  That he is very poor and [illegible] such reduced circumstance, that he need said from Government
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That he never had any pension from the United States in any State

Sworn and Subscribed                     his
before me this 21st            Anthony   X  Garns
September 1818                             mark

                         John McNairy
                       District Judge


Major Howel Tatom a citizen of Davidson County in said State; formerly a Captain in the first North Carolina continental Reg. came before me and made Oath that he was present in Jany or February 1778 when the 7th North Carolina  continental Reg was transferred to the first that soon after he became acquainted with the applicant Anthony Garns, that he knows that he was taken prisoner at [the following line is inserted in the text] and know him by [illegible] for more than two years. [Continuation of statement] Charlestown. The Col Hardy Merphy told this deposant that he served faithfully untill the end of the war.  That he believes the statement made by Garns to be true that Col. Murphy was a man of integrity and honor whose statements were never doubted.

Sworn to and subscribed      Ho Tatum Captain
this date above                      of 1st N.C. Rgt
             John McNairy
                District Judge

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The said Maj Howel Tatum [illegible] then makes oath that the said Anthony Garns obtained a land warrant of 640 acres as a war soldier the highest allowance in land given to any soldier by the State of North Carolina, which he sold and was granted to Col Hardy McMurfree
Sworn to subscribed 
        John McNairy           Ho Tatum Captain(?) of 
         District Judge           7th NC Regt