Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 3388, Thomas Gann, N.C.

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NC Gann, Thomas

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26,858

Tennessee

Thomas Gann
Hamilton Co. in the State of Tenn. 
is a Sergeant in the Company commanded
by Captain Tremble of the Regt. commanded by Colonel Sevier in the No. Carolina
line

[        $50 .00 ]

carried on the Roll of 
Rate of $50.00 per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March 1831

rate of Pension issued the 18 day of June
and Sent to
J. Standefer H R

to the 4th of Mch  150.00
amt. allowance ending 4 Sept  25.00
                                                                       175.00

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by J T. Sprague Clerk,
Book 6.2 Vol. 71  Page 64

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State of Tennessee
Hamilton County
On the 9th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the worshipful justices of the court of pleas & quarter sessions for said county now setting Thomas Gamm a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits 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 stated that is to say, he was drafted and entered the service under Captain William Trimble and Col. John Savior in the upper part of North Carolina and now Washington County Tennessee, he was immediately marched under the before mentioned officers to the high hills of Santee in South Carolina and joined the army under General Greene. Where the regiment to which this applicant belonged remained two or three days and was marched to Gen. Marion's headquarters above Charleston S.C. and joined him under

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whose command this applicant served about four months, this applicant was discharged while at Gen. Marion's station he believes by Col Savior and returned home.
This applicant served about five months as a horseman finding his own horse. This tour, soon after this applicant returned home, he was appointed Capt. of a light horse company and commissioned by Governor Martin of North Carolina as such in which command as a Capt.  This applicant served off and on as a ranger on the frontiers of North Carolina until the termination of the Revolutionary war, during which time this applicant was in several skirmishes with the British and Tories and was in a skirmish in the immediate vicinity of Kings Mountain, on that day the battle was fought at that place, in which skirmish this applicant received a wound on the crown of his head by a British dragoon, he was not directly engaged in the battle at Kings Mountain, after the termination pf the revolution this applicant served under Gen. Sevier, formerly Col. Sevier until the termination of the Cherokee War and was in several skirmishes with the Indians and was in a sharp engagement with

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them at the fork of the fork of Coosa and Hightower rivers or a little above. This engagement was the last which this applicant remembers to have been in, the Indians War soon after terminated and this applicant returned home. This applicant from the commencement of his service in the Revolution till the termination of the Indian War considered himself in the service of the United States or State of N. Carolina about six year and received pay in continental money from paymasters Green and Guess and others not recollected except the last payment after the termination of the Cherokee War which was in good money and paid to Major James Steward at the war department and by him paid over to this applicant.
This applicant was born (in Virginia whence his father moved when he (the applicant) was about fourteen or fifteen years old to Washington County, then North Carolina) in the 1764 March 17th.  The record of his age was in a book (Cato’s Letters) which book he believes to be in his brother’s possession in Washington County. He stated where he lived when called into service, he lived there between twenty and twenty-five years and moved to Rhea County, Tennessee where he lived eight

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or nine years from there to this county (Hamilton) where he has resided for the last nine or ten years and still resides.
He has stated how he was called into service and the names of the officers with whom he was acquainted and served some of whom were Regular officers and the general circumstances of his service.
He has stated how he was discharged and from whom he received his commission and now states that some length of time after the Ware of the Revolution he lost his commission among a number of other papers and hi discharge none of which he has ever been able to recover.
He states that he has no documentary evidence of his service, nor can he obtain any that he knows of without much trouble and expense.
Je is known to Cornelius Millikan an acting Justice of the Peace from Hamilton County, and James Riddle and Robert Patterson acting Justices as aforesaid, his present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity and their believe of his service as a soldier of the Revolution, but not with any clergyman that can do so that he knows of.

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He hereby relinquishes every clam whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state in the United States.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Thomas (his mark) Gann

We Cornelius Millikin, James Riddle and Robert Patterson residents of the county stated aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Gann who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixth eight years old that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood whom 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
Cornelius Millikin, James Riddle and Robert Patterson

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the investigations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Cornelius Millikin, James Riddle and Robert Patterson are residents of the aforesaid county and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Igon
Daniel Henderson
J.H. Jones
Justices of said court.

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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the investigations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Cornelius Millikin, James Riddle and Robert Patterson are residents of the aforesaid county and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Igon
Daniel Henderson
J.H. Jones
Justices of said court.
I Asahel Rowling clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for Hamilton County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Gann for a pension
In testimony whom of I have here unto set my hand and private seal (not having official) at office the 29th day of August 1832
Asahel Rowling clerk

I certify that Asahel Rowling is clerk of Hamilton County Court and that his signature is genuine and that this is his seal of office for said county.
February 20th 1833
James Standefer

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12.390
Thomas Gann
Hamilton Co
Tennessee
1781 P Co
1 year $50
Com only allocation
Hon. J. Standefer
Present

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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office,

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 compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Thomas Gann 
| Period when the service was rendered | Duration of the claimant's service | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported |
|  [space] | Years Months Days | 
| 1781 | about 5 months | Pr Cav | Cap Trimble Col J Sevier | 68 N. C | 
[across 3 columns ] not stated Captain Cooby
[written across page ]
Time in actual service, (each time and date thereof being forth) should be stated.

Unless it can be shown to the satisfaction [illegible] that the applicant was commissioned as a Captain and proof exhibits that he served as such, he will only be allowed the rate of a private pay.

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 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 las, 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 wil 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                                  } 88
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, volunteer, namy, &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 ad year aforesaid,             A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.d]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (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 a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office 9I0 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 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 reuputed 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 .........
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court .....]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion........
putting the interrogatories prescribed by te War Department.......
Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  An the Court......
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman,...
and the C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident....
 and is a credible person, and that their statement is .....
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of______....
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the.....
for the pension.
In testimony....
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his....
sion, but if neither of these can be obtained, the party....
possible, the testimony of at lease on credible witness,....
vices of the applicant, and such circumstances connected....
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant....
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed.....

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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 corrobating 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 delcarations 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?
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 characer 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 llives 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 concuer 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 examiniation, before a Judge of 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 appllicant 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 of 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 subseequent 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.

[footnotes at bottom labeled with a letter and bracket]

[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 fo 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 each 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 hte phrase about 1 hrs or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are jobjectioalbe. 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 appolicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service wa sperformed; that the appplicant 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 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 characer 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 his seal of office.
[illegible] The ntes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in 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.

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Thomas Gann
E. Tenn.
for new Cert.

Let a certificate be
issued, because altho'
the forms are not strictly
adhered to, there is
ample proof identity &tc.

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Dec 9

Hon. J. Standefer
HR

The Honorable
Colonel. James Standefer
Rep. in Congress
at Home
near Mountains
Bledsoe County Ten

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3388
INVALID.
Rev War

File No. 3388
Thomas Gann
Pvt. N.C. Mili[illeg.]

Act: June 7th/32

Index:--Vol. A, Page 136
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Dallas Tn
4 June

Col James Standefer
MemberH. R-
Washington City
D. C.

Mail

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Dalas Tn: 31. May 1834
Dr Col.
Fearing that Thomas Gann's pension papers would not reach you I have sent them to the war department.  they are amended, and he wil have to be satisfied with a pension as a private if he can get it-- there is no doubt but what he served as he states, but cannot prove that he was commissioned as a Captain, having long since lost his commission as he first moved down Holson River-- Wm J Standefer was at our court this week & was well.  We are al well.
With esteem
B. B. Cannon

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Dec 24
Mr. Burdine


Pension Office

Hon J. Standefer,
House of Representatives

Hon J. Standefer
HR

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East Tennessee Agency
Knoxville March 10th 1837

Sir
You will please find enclosed Mr. Thomas Ganns application his his pension for fifty Dollars per annum, by Books Shew [sic] that Mr. Gann has not been paid Since the 4th day of March 1835--  I have retained in my possession his original Certificate of Pension, all of which is Submitted for your Examination and further instruction
I am respectfully your obt Svt
Ro King Agt.

J L Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Jan'y 21st, 1842,

Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States The admor [administrator] of Thomas Gann, decd... a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville Agency, at the rate of Fifty Dollars and    Cents ["and   Cents" crossed through] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from 4th of March, to the 25th July 1840--

Respectfully, yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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State of Tennessee
Hamilton County   S.S.  October Session 1836

This day being the 3rd day of October 1836. Thomas Gann a Revolutionary pensioner personally appeared in open Court and made oath in due form of law, that he has lost out of his possession his pension certificate on which he was entitled to receive fifty dollars per annum payable semi-annually on the 4th of Mach and 4th of September in any year, during his natural life, that there are now three payments in arrears and that this is the second affidavit he has made of the loss of his said certificate the number of which he does not recollect-- that he mailed his first affidavit of the loss of it at Soddy post office in this County-- Col William Clift post master, that he has not sold transfered [sic] or in any wise disposed of his interest in said certificate to any person whatsoever; that he alone is justy entitled to the benefit of the same, that he can get no information respecting his first affidavit above mentioned,--  therefore he prays that another certificate may issue to him, directed to Soddy post office Hamilton County Tennessee, and that he refers to B. B. Cannon and Thmas [sic] Layman

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for a statement as to his character.
Thomas Gann
his X mark
Sworn and subscribed to
in open Court the 3rd day
of October 1836.
Seal    Asahel Rawlings Clk.

State of Tennessee
Hamilton County   S.S.
October Session 1836
We B B cannon and Thomas Layman do certify that e are and have been for several years past acquainted with Thomas Gann.  that during our acquaintance with him and at this time he has been and is a citizen of Hamilton County aforesaid and that his statement is entitled to credit,  Given under our hands this
3rd day of Oct. 1836
B B Cannon
Thos Layman

Sworn and subscribed 
the date above mention-
ed in open Court

Seal    Asahel Rawings Clk.

The undersigned Justices of the County Court of Hamilton County declare that B B Cannon and Thomas Layman are credible persons and that their certificate is entitled to credit.

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12,399
Thos Gann
Declaration
Pension

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State of Tennessee
Hamilton County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Thomas Gann 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 five months served as a private under Capt William Trimble and Col John Sevier & for three months I served as a lieutenant and captain under Col. Sevier. for three months more I served as a captain under Co. Sevier & seventeen months as a captain of a company of rangers during which I was actually engaged as a ranger by order of the State government of North Carolina making in al twenty eight months I was in actual service before the close of the Revolutionary War besides my service afterwards against the Indians at different times.  he don't [sic] know that he can prove as required by the department of war that he received a commission or had one in possession, yet such was the fact, it was lost about twenty two years ago, in moving by water down Holston river-- he believes that he can, be being at some trouble and expense procure testimony that he acted as captain in the service before the close of the Revolutionary War but is advised that it would not be satisfactory evidence to the War department of his grade.  he therefore claims a pension as a private for twenty eight months which is not less than the actual time he served during the Revolutionary War,
Thomas Gann
his X mark

Sworn to and subscribed
before me the 27th day of
May 1834
Saml Igan J.P. for Said County

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State of Tennessee 
I John Rice chairman & presiding Justice of the County Court of Hamilton County Do Certify that Asahel Rawlings whose Signature appears officially to the Within & last foregoing Certificate as and of said Court is and was at the making and signing the same Clerk of said Court duly and Constitutionally elected and Sworn into office.
Given under my hand
the 3rd day of October 1836
John Rice chairman
& presiding Justice of said Court 

State of Tennessee
I Asahel Rawlings Clerk of the County Court of Hamilton County Do Certify that John Rice Esquire whose Signature appears officially to this last above foregoing Certificate is now and was at the time of making and Signing the same an acting and presiding Justice & Chairman of said Court regularly Commissioned and sworn into office and elected & appointed Chairman of said Court
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my private seal
(not having an official Seal) at office the 3rd
day of October A.D. 1836.
SS     Asahel Rawlings, Clk

I certify that I am well Acquainted with Asahell [sic] Rawlings who has signed the above Certificate & know his hand writing an [sic] know he is the Clerk of Hamilton County Court which is a Court of record
I am also Acquainted with B. B. Cannon and Thomas Layman and know them to be credable [sic] person and intitled [sic] to full credit, I am Acquainted with Col John Rice the Chairman and Presiding Justice of said Court and all the Justices who satisfy as to the credability [sic] of B B Cannon and Thomas Layman, and know them all to be entitled to credit.  Mar 21st 
December 1836         James Standefer

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and that the records of this court show that the above named Thomas Gann with whom we are personally acquainted was an applicant for a pension under the act of congress of the 7th June 1832.
John Cornett
Jesse Sutton 
Ephram Hixson
Jno Hanna
Justices of said Court

State of Tennessee
I Asahel Rawlings Clerk of the County Court of Hamilton County Do Certify that Thomas Gann the applicant and affiant within named & Benjamin P. Gann and Thomas Layman, the affiants to the 2nd within affidavit did in Open Court this day take and sign the said affidavit and that the above named John Cornett Jesse Sutton Ephraim Hixson & John Hnna have signed the above Certificate as Justices of said Court are and were at the time of Signing the same acting Justices of the Peace in and of said County Court. regularly Commissioned and sworn into office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my private Seal (not having
an official seal) at office in Dallas the
3d day of October A.D. 1836

Asahel Rawlings Clk