Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,076, William Bowles, N.C.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE 
N.C.

Bowles, William
or Booles,
Bools, Sally

NUMBER
R. 1,076

CONTENTS

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[illegible family record] 

William Bowles was
Born 6th June 1752
Sally Booles was Born
2 [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] November
the 2 1772
Nancy Harvel was
Born the 22nd [illegible]
in the year [illegible]
Thomas Harvel was
Born the 31 [illegible] [of May]
in the year 1794
William Booles
Died 18 Dec. 1817

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[Illegible]

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7057
Sally Bowles
wid of William
Ga
Act 4 July 1836

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State of Georgia}
Paulding County} On this the ninth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight personally appeared before George M. Garrison one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the State and County aforesaid Sally Booles a resident of the State aforesaid Paulding County aged ninety one years on the Second day of June eighteen hundred and forty-eight who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the 7th eighteen hundred and thirty eight entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of William Booles who was drafted as a soldier and served as a private in the Militia service, she further declares that the said William Booles served from sometime in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one in Captain Brevard's Company of the 10th Regiment until sometime in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two, or until he left the service as per certificate [^ & hereunto attached] will show on the 12th of April seventeen hundred and eighty two. She further declares that she was married to the said William Booles on the second day of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy two, that her husband the aforesaid William Booles died on the eighteenth day of December eighteen hundred and seventeen, as will appear per record as hereunto attached. She further Swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension. She further Swears that she has never intermarried with anyone since the

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death of her husband William Booles deceased. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me George M. Garrison one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said State and County aforesaid. 
George M. Garrison, J. I. C. 
Sally [her x mark] Bowles

Georgia Paulding} 
County} I do hereby certify that Sally Booles is wholly unable to attend in her proper persons before our Court this 9th day of March eighteen hundred and forty eight.
George M. Garrison JIC

Georgia Paulding} 
County} Before me, E H Richardson Sworn to & subscribed and saith that Salley Bowles of said State and County is now a widow, and that she has never been married again since the death of William Bowles, deceased.-
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 9th day of March 1848.—
George M. Garrison J.L.C.
E. W. Richardson

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Georgia Paulding} 
County} Before me George M Garrison one of the presiding Justices of the Inferior Court of said County Personally appeared Biven Bowles who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the family record hereunto attached is genuine and has been in his this Deponent's possession up to the present time deponent cannot say in whose hand writing it was made [^ it being] previous to deponent's birth. 
Sworn to & subscribed 
before me this 9th day of March 1848. 
George M Garrison, JIC 
Biven Bowles

Georgia Paulding} 
County} I Plesant K Walton Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do hereby certify that George M. Garrison is one of the presiding Justices of the Inferior Court of said County and that his signature as subscribed as aforesaid to the foregoing declarations affidavits & indefinitely are genuine
Given under my hand and Seal this the 10th day of March 1848
P. K. Walton, Clerk

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State of Georgia}
Floyd County} On this 27 day of May 1852 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the Inferior Court in and for said County, Biven Bowls and made oath in due form of law to the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress of 4th of July 1836 & 7 July 1838 and 3rd March 1843 & 17 of June 1844 & 2nd of February 1848 that he is one of the legal heirs and representative of his mother Sally Bowls Deceased late of Paulding State of Georgia who was the widow of William Bowls deceased that his father William Bowls as declarant always understood from him & his mother was a Revolutionary Soldier, that he served about 13 Months as a private in the years 1781 & 2 from the State of North Carolina in the North Carolina line that he was an Enlisted soldier as declarant thinks for 12 months but declarant cannot state what officers he served under was but distinctly recollects hearing his Father speak at various times of being in the battle at Guilford and of hearing him say that the officer about the Commencement of battle said to the soldiers that they must take care of themselves upon which they broke and ran, that his Father the said William Bowles departed this life on the 18 day of December 1817 leaving the Mother of Declarant to wit Sally Bowls who survived him and remained his widow till on 27th of March 1850 when she died [^ leaving] Allen Bowls & declarant who are now living and are the only surviving heirs of her the said Sally Bowls diest [deceased] Declarant further states that agreeable to the family Record kept by his father & mother in their lifetime that they were married on 2 November 1772 but declarant cannot produce said Record

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the Original having been forwarded to the Department by John H Lumpkin some years ago for the purpose of obtaining the pension that was due his mother the said Sally Bowls which was rejected, also states that he has no documentary or record proof in support of his claim only the copy of the Original Marriage Record which was taken when the original was sent to the Department declarant therefore makes this declaration in order to recover the amount of Pension that was due to his mother in her lifetime and which since her death this [Illegible] to her children. 
Biven Booles {Seal}
Sworn to and subscribed} 
before me the day and} 
year above written}
J M Spullock Clerk

Know all men by these presents that I Biven Bowls of Polk County State of Georgia do by these presents constitute and appoint Smith & Jones of Nashville Tennessee my true and lawful attorneys for me and in my [ink smear] to present and prosecute my claim & my brother Allen Bowls to the Pension that was due our Mother Sally Bowls but since her death has descended to us hereby ratifying and confirming all the acts we the [Illegible] Witness my hand and seal this 27 of May 1852.
Biven Bools {Seal}
Attest W T Trammell,
Attest John R. Alexander

Acknowledged before me the date above
J M Spullock JSC

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State Georgia}
Floyd County} I Jesse Lambirth Dept. Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for said County and State do hereby certify that James M Spullock whose name or genuine signature, appears to the above and foregoing Declaration acknowledgement and affidavit, is and was at the time of subscribing to the same an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said county duly Commissioned and qualified. And that in faith & credit should be given to his Attestation
 
Given under my hand and Seal of office this 27th day of May AD 1852
Jesse Lambirth D.C.I.C.

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State of Georgia}
Floyd County} On this 27 day of May 1852 personally appeared before the undersigned and [one] of the justices of the Inferior Court in and for said county and state Samuel Green Aged Sixty years & John Hocking aged Sixty Two years both residents of Polk County and made oath under form of law that they were well acquainted with William Bowles late of Green County Georgia, that he was always considered regarding to be a Revolutionary Soldier Especially among the old soldiers said William Bowls departed this life in Green County about the [year] 1817 that at the time of his death he left his widow Sally Bowls who surviving him unmarried until about the 27th of March 1850 when she died in Paulding County State of Georgia that at the time of her death she left Biven Bowls & Allen Bowls children of herself and her husband the said William Bowls and who are the only children and surviving heirs of their the said William and Sally Bowls dect [deceased] affiants of course cannot say any thing of the marriage of said William & Sally Bowls but from the appearance of their oldest child Patsy now dead if she had have lived until now must have been some seven or eight years of age during the time that affiants was acquainted with William & Sally Bowls. They were regarded as man and wife and was always regarded as respectable and reputable persons affiants does state that they are not interested.
John Hocking {Seal}
Samuel Green {Seal}
Sworn to & subscribed  
the date above 
J M Spullock, J.I.C.

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State of Georgia Floyd County}
I J M Spullock a Justice of the Inferior Court of said county and state do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Green & John Hackney who has this day appeared before me and made oath to the within affidavit that they are men of truth and veracity and that full faith and credit of wright is due them.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 27th of May 1852.
J M Spullock J.I.C.

State of Georgia}
Floyd County} I Jesse Lambirth Dep. Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for said county and state do hereby certify that James M. Spullock whose genuine signature appears to the above and foregoing affidavit and certificate, is and was at the time of subscribing to the same an acting Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said county duly Commissioned and qualified and that all faith & credit should be given to his Attestation as such
Given under my hand and Seal of office this 27th day of May AD 1852
Jesse Lambirth D.Clerk I.C.F.C.

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May 3, 1940

Miss Sadye M. Bowles
[Ink Smear] N. Edgeworth Street
Greensboro, North Carolina

BA-J/AWF Own
William Bowles
R. 1076

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Bowles (Boles), who served [ink smear] North Carolina.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, R. 1076, based upon service of William Bowles in the War of the Revolution. The names is shown, also, Booles.
William Bowles was born June 6, 1752, place not stated, nor were the names of his parents given.
He married November 2, 1772, Sally Biven, who was born June 2, 1757. It was not stated where she was born, nor were the names of her parents given.
William Bowles died December 18, 1817, in Greene County, Georgia.
The Widow, Sally Bowles, applied for pension, March 9, 1848, at which time she was living in Paulding County, Georgia. It was stated that her husband, William Bowles, enlisted in 1781, served as private in Captain Brevard’s company, in the 10th North Carolina regiment, was in the battle of Guilford Court House, and continued in the service until April

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12, 1782.
The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service as required by the pension law was not established.
The widow, Sally Bowles, died March 27, 1850, in Paulding County, Georgia.
Patsy, the oldest child of William Bowles and his wife, Sally, died prior to her mother. Their sons, Biven Bowles and Allen Bowles, survived their mother; Biven Bowles was living in 1852 in Polk County, Georgia.
The following data are shown in the claim-
Nancy Harvel born February 22, 1793
Thomas “ [Harvel] “ [born] May 31, 1794.
It was not stated that they were related to the family of the soldier, William Bowles.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, 
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE 
I, William Hill, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls of the Continental line of this State, in the Revolutionary War, that William Bowles a private Soldier, in Capt. [Captain] Brevard's Company of the 10th Regiment, entered the service on the __ day of __ 1781 for the term of __. Left service 12 April 1782. 
Given under my hand this 2nd day of February 1848, 
W. Hill, Secretary 
of State -

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of William Bowler, Rey 1076; a solider of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau

[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. / LENGTH OF SERVICE. / RANK. / OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. Captain, Colonel. / STATE.
1.  1781 / 13 mo. / Pri/ Captain Brevard ; 10th Regt. / N.C.
2.  left service April 12, 1782

Not sent
N.C. Soldier
Va Soldier called for

Battles engaged in, Guilford.
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of [^ widow’s] application for pension, March 9, 1848
Residence at date of application, Paulding Co. Georgia
Age at date of application, [91 years crossed out] born June 2, 1857, died Mch 27 1850 in Paulding Co. Ga.

Remarks: William Bowles born 1752, He died Dec. 18, 1817 in Greene County, Ga; he married Sally Biven, Nov 2 1772; Children Patsy, dead in 1852, Biven; Allen, both living in 1852,
Family record [Illegible] Nancy Harvel born Feb. 22, 1793} Thomas Harvel born May 31, 1794, was rejected no proof of marriage or identity of soldier

Very Respectfully,

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Stamped – RECEIVED / APR 2 1940 / MAIL SUB-DIV / Reader No 5 / VETS ADM]

March 30, 1940

Only

Veteran’s Administration
Washington, D. C.

Will you kindly send me a copy of any pension records you have in the case of William Bowles (Boles), who enlisted in the Revolutionary War from the State of North Carolina.

Any other information you can give me concerning the service of William Bowles in the Revolutionary War will be greatly appreciated.

(Miss) Sadye M. Bowles

228 N. Edgeworth St.
Greensboro, N. C.

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52
Pension Office
April 10, 1848 

Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the papers in the case of Sally Bowls and of William Bowles have been examined and filed under the act of 4 July 1836.
Neither the service of claimant’s husband nor the date of their marriage have been established in the manner required by the regulations.
The certificate of the Secretary of State of North Carolina shows that William Bowles enlisted in the Regiment of that Line sometime in 1781 and was discharged on 12 April 1782, but as that certificate was in possession of claimant when her declaration was made it cannot be received as evidence of the service of her husband. She will therefore be required to show by the testimony of witnesses who were themselves with him. That her husband was the identical soldier who belonged to the said regiment and that his services amounted to as

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Much as one months to [Illegible] her within the [Illegible] of the Act [Congress July 1836 crossed out] Union which she claims.
The date of their marriage should be established by a certified copy of marriage bond or license from the clerk of or in the County in which the rites were celebrated it must be shown that no such evidence exists before proof of and in favor made can be [Illegible] – the [Illegible] as the paper purporting to be a family registry does not bear thou evidence of [Illegible] thus hereunto make it satisfactory proof of a marriage said to have taken place as early as 1772.
We cannot grant a pension to Mrs. Bowles upon the proof now presented.

Hon. J H Lumpkin
House of Repr

[written sideways – J. H. Lumpkin
Apr 10 48]

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Smith & Jones
Present

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310
Pension Office
Sep 23, 1852

Sir
The declaration of the heirs of Sally Bowles dec’d widow of William of Ga, has been received and filed with her original papers under the Act of July 4 1836.
The leaf sent to establish the marriage does not bear upon it – sufficient marks of age to be received as testimony to prove the date of that event. A certificate from the clerk of the county in which they were married, should be procured, showing what evidence he has of it. [words scratched out] If this cannot be procured, then the witnesses introduced to prove the marriage should fortify their memories by some collateral circumstances, showing how they recollect the time.
Among her papers is a certificate from the Secretary of State of NC showing that a William Bowles was in service from day of 1781 to 12 April 1782. This does not show a service of 6 months, which is necessary to

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enable her to draw a pension at all, it must be shown that he serviced 6 months and he musbe be clearly identified with the solder admitted to have performed service from – day of 1781 to 17 April 1782. This is the more necessary as she had the Secretary certificate before here where she made her declaration in 1848.
The heirs must furnish a certificate of court showing the date of the deaths of their father & mother and the number & names of the heirs surviving at her death.

Mr’s Smith & Jones 
of Nashville
Tenn
Present

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Cedar Town, Ga. Augt. 3rd / 57

Dear Sir

I am requested by a very poor old afflicted woman Sally Bools to ascertain whether Smith & Hones had ever drawn her Pension in the year 1852. They procured all the testimony that was necessary to have the claim allowed, and they have repeatedly written to Smith & Jones at Nashville Tennessee but can get no answer will you be so kind as to ascertain from the records whether or not they have drawn the [Illegible] and where those Mr’s Lewis & Jones reside will you please to give this your early attention and write to me all the facts.
Yr. obt. Sert. [Your obedient Servant]
L H Walthall

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R. H. Walthall
Cedar Town
Geo
Aug 21, 1837

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Pension Offices, Aug. 21, 1857

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 3d instant, I have to stat that no allowance has been made in the case of Sally Bowls, an applicant for pension under Act of July 7, 1836.

Smith & Jones, her attorneys resided in 1852, at Nashville Tennessee.

L. H. Walthall Esq.}
Cedar Town}
Georgia}

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Washington May 10, 1854

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm. Of Pensions
We herewith enclose additional evidence in the case of Sally Bowles widow of William Bowles, Georgia, Susp. Act 7th July 1838.
Very respectfully
Evans J. Faut.

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Sally Bowles
Ga Sus } 6

M Cole

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Com. of Pensions

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Nashville Tennessee
July 14, 1852

Sir
We enclose declaration of Biven Bowles In & heir at law of Sally Bowles dec’d. who it appears applied for a pension during her life time, also, the affidavit of two disinterested & reputable witnesses of to the reputation of William Bowles dec’d as a Rev. Soldier &c
Please examine & report to 

Your obt. Ser v’ts [obedient Servant]
Smith & Jones 

To
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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Evans Fant
May 8/54

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172

Pension Office
8th May 1854.
Gentlemen,
The additional evidence in the case of Sally Bowles widow of William of Georgia, has been received.
The evidence fails to establish the date of the marriage of William and Sally. The enclosed letter of 23d Sept. 1852, to Mrs. Smith & Jones will explain the objections to the admission of the claim.

Mrs. Smith & Jones
Evans V Faut
Present

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Joseph Bryan
April 28/53

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269

Pension Office
April 28 1853

Sir
In the case of Sally Bowles of Geo, I have to inform you that neither service nor marriage has been established. Mrs Smith & Jones have been fully instructed as to what is necessary to complete the case.

Joseph Bryan of Ala. Esq.
[Illegible]

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[written on left side – 1940 – May 3 – hist to Sadye M. Bowles [Illegible] 

Ex’r. INVALID
1076

[words crossed out]

[Stamped] - REJECTED

[P. O.] Sally Bowles

[Servi]ce:

[Enlis]ted:  ,18
[Disch]arged:  ,18

[Appli]cation filed:  ,18

Alleges: 

[nlisted:]

[Attor]ney:

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Sally Bowles
Widow of William

Georgia, Susp Act
7th July 1838

filed
May 4th 1854

Evans K Faut

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State of Georgia}
Polk County} Personally came before me James West a Justice of the Peace John Hackney who being duly sworn deposeth and says that he is sixty six years old and that he was personally acquainted with William Bools deceased and his wife Sally Bools and knew that they lived together as man and wife about fifty years ago and so lived until the death of said William Bools. He further deposeth and says that he has frequently heard the said William Bools speak of his services as a Solider in the war of the Revolution and that he knew the children of the said William Bools and Sally Bools and he thinks the eldest child would now have been between seventy five and eighty years of age.
Sworn to and subscribed 
before he this 16th day August 1853.
James West J.P.
John Hackney

State of Georgia}
Polk County} I, Albert G. Love Clerk of the Superior Court of said County of Polk do hereby certify

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State of Georgia}
Polk County} I, Albert G. Love Clerk of the Superior Court of said County of Polk do certify that James West whose name appears to the above affidavits was and is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and his acts and doings as Justice of the Peace are legal and valid in law. And that said Superior Court is a Court of Record. Given under my hand and Seal of office at Cedar Town in said County this sixteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred & fifty three.

Albert G. Love, Clk

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State of Georgia}
Polk County} On this 2nd day of November 1852 personally appeared Thomas Moseley aged seventy four years a resident of said County and State with whom I am personally acquainted and who I certify is a credible person and made oath in due form of law that he was well acquainted with William Bowles, who was always reputed and believed to have been a Revolutionary soldier from the State of North Carolina, that he died about the year 1817, and left a widow whose name was Sally Bowles and who survived him and continued his widow, up to the day of her death, which event took place in March 1850 that she left but two children who are the only surviving children and heirs at law of the said William and Sally Bowles, and affiant further makes oath that he is disinterested.
Thos Moseley {Seal}

Sworn to & subscribed before me}
The day and year above written}
Thomas A. Chisolm {JP}

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State of Georgia}
Polk County} I, Albert G. Love Clerk of the Superior Court in and for said County do certify that Thomas A. Chisolm and Thomas Crumly whose genuine signatures appears to the foregoing affidavits are and were at the time of signing the same Justices of the Peace duly Commissioned and Sworn, and are entitled to full faith and credit and that said Superior Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and Seal of office at Cedar Town November 5th 1852.

Albert G. Love, Clk

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State of Georgia}
Polk County} On this 4 day of November 1852 personally appeared Joseph Hobbs aged sixty eight years of age a resident of said County and State with whom I am personally acquainted and who I certify is a credible person and made oath in due form of law that he was well acquainted with William Bowles was always reputed and believed to have been a Revolutionary soldier from the State of North Carolina that he died about the year 1817 and left a widow whose name is was Sally Bowles who survived him and continued his widow – up to the day of her death which event took place in March 1850 that she left but two children who are the only surviving children and heirs at law of the said William & Sally Bowles to wit. Allen Bowles and Biven Bowles and affiant further makes oath that he is disinterested.
Joseph Hobbs {Seal}

Sworn to & subscribed before me}
The day and year above written}
Thomas Crumly {JP}

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State of Georgia}
Polk County} Personally came before me James West an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Thomas Moseley who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Seventy five years of age, and that he was personally acquainted with William Booles and his wife Sally Bools and knew that they lived together as man and wife about fifty years ago, and so lived until the death of the said William Booles. He further deposeth and saith that he has frequently heard the said William Booles speak of his services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that he knew the children of the said William Bools and Sally Booles, and that the eldest child would now have been between seventy five and eighty years of age.
Thos Moseley
Sworn to and subscribed 
Before me This August the 16th 1853
James West J. P.

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Washington City
22nd March 1848

Col. James L. Edwards,
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose you the declaration of Sally Bowles the widow of William Bowles, a soldier of the Revolution, who applies for a pension. I hope Sir that this claim may be taken up at an early day and examined 
With respect I am dear Sir yours
Jno A Lumpkin