Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38691, Jonathan Faire, Va.

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Service Va.
Faire, Jonathan or Fare
Number S38691

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12.5 [illegible] 3
West Tennessee
Jonathan Faire
of  Smith Co. in the State of Tennessee 
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Dunn of the regt. commanded
by Colonel Buckner in Virginia
line, for the term of two years.
from March - 1776 to March 1778
Inscribed on the Roll West Tennessee
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 10 day of August 1818 
and Certificate of Pension issued 9 [illegible] of July [illegible]
and sent to [illegible] Stewart 
Carthage, Smith Co. Ten:
Restore to the Roll on 20 day of 
March 1830 and notification sent to 
W. Hart, at Carthage, Tenne
of March 1830, Co. [illegible]
Pension commencing on 17 
Amount due on 4th of
March 1880| $44.93.
{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820}
[illegible] [illegible]  [illegible]  17 Mar.

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[written horizontally]
See letter 5th May 1831 to J. M. Coffee. 
Duplicate certificate issued 20 June 1831 and sent to [illegible]: Robert Allen
Carthage Ten:
See let to S. Cautrell, 25
March 1837-
See letter 5 Feb 1838 
[illegible] W. B. Campbell 

[written vertically]
Paper Certified for
[illegible] B. Peyton
Mar. 26th ’34

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[duplicate of page 3; photocopied vertically]
See letter 5th. May 1831 to J. M. 
CoffeeDuplicated certificate 
Issued 20 June 1831 and
Sent to [illegible]: Robert Allen
Carthage Ten:
See letter to S.Cautrell, 25
March 1837- 

See let 5 Feb 1838
[written vertically]
Paper Certified for
[illegible] B. Peyton
Mar. 26th ‘34

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Jonathan Faire-(Private)
Buckner [ink blot] Virginia Regt10 April [illegible]-
The Honorable Secretary for War
[upside down]
Jonathan Faire
[ink script transferred from other documents]
[illegible]

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State of Tennessee| August Quarterly [illegible]
Smith County| 1818 
On this tenth day of August eighteen hundred eighteen appears Jonathan Faire and declared on oath , that he enlisted in the continental service in the Revolutionary War, in the state of Virginia Pittsylvania county with Captain Thomas Hutchins by Eugene Hardin Perkins of the sixth Virginia Regiment commanded by Col Mordicai Buckner that he continued in service [illegible] six years that he was in the banks of German Town, Brandy Wine, the Siege of Fort Moultrie, & the Battle of Trenton & then Siege of York & continued in the service until the [illegible] was wounded there several time and Brandy Wine his right leg was broken by a musket ball & that disabled [illegible] [illegible] he has raised  [illegible mark] large family by this [illegible] industry; that he is now [illegible] &  [illegible] sixty five years old, & has no land nor [illegible] has an old wife & have single daughters , [illegible] [illegible] son & stands really in need of pension support and in as [illegible] to go on  the parrish of Smith County, or

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or to be supported by his married children. The amount of his personal and property is very trifling consisting of a set of Blacksmith tools; some household stuff and a small stock of hogs a cow and a horse  Jonathan Faire [seal]   Jurat  Jur
Appeared also same day in open court Micajah Lyman and made oath that the above named Jonathan Faire was a regular soldier in the Virginia line in the war of the Revolution, that he was some time a sergeant under Captain Peter Dunn who commanded the company after Captain Thomas Hutchins that he was in service with me two years, and I left him in the service when I was discharged that I was with him at the Battle of Germantown and Brandywine and The Siege of Fort Miflin.  Jurat   Micahjah Sims [seal] Appeared also Edmund Tarver Josiah Hall and Jonas Betote Samuel Walker and made oath that the above Jonathan Faire, would in their opinion be entitled to credit in a court

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of Justice and that he stands in need of support. Jurat    Edmund D. Tarver [seal] Jurat Samuel Walker [seal] Jurat Josiah Hall [seal] 
I James Hibbets presiding Justice of the court of pleas & quarter sessions for the County of Smith do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the above Jonathan Faire did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against our common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings testimony taken and had in open county court to the secretary for the Department of War [unreadable] to directions of Act of Congress. J. Hibbets CCCJ

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Jonathan Fare
Pension Decl.
In
Smith Circuit Court
Transcripts
W. Tennessee
Sep 19
Hon.  R. Allen
Carthage
Tennessee

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Tennessee Judicial Circuit} Circuit court of Smith County; October Term 1827. At a Circuit Court of Law and Equity began and held for the County of Smith in the Circuit and State aforesaid on the 2nd Monday being the 8th day of October anno domini in eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, and of the independence of the United States the 52nd.  Present the honorable Nathaniel W. Williams Judge: 
Be it remembered that on this day to wit 12th October 1827 personally appeared in open court (being a court of record proceeding according to the court of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings) Jonathan Fare and filed the following declaration viz. “State of Tennessee, Smith County, Circuit Court, October Tenn 1827  “on this day being the 12th day of October 1827 Jonathan Fare personally appeared in open court (being a court of record for Smith County) resident in said county aged seventy five years, 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 Act of Congress of 18 March 1818 and the 1st May 1820; That he then said Jonathan Fare enlisted for two years in March in the year 1776, in the state of Virginia in the company of commanded by Thomas Hutchins or afterwards Captain Dunn in the 6th Regiment commanded by Colonel Buckner in the line of the state Virginia on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said corps until March 1778; when he was discharged from said service in the State of Pennsylvania at Valley Forge; that he was in the battle of Brandywine and there wounded; that his name has been placed on pension list and drafted therefore an account of his property or rather because having at that time property, he never made any schedule in compliance with the act of the 1 May 1820; but which property since that time is all exhausted and gone in consequences of a train of misfortunes and calamities over which he had no control. And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United “States on the 18 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 to thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress,

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entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 March 1818.”  And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities or debts due me nor have I any income whatsoever nor have I anything to put in a schedule or any changes to name in one because which I had property I never presented one or asked to be continued on the pension rolls- Schedule no property 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court 12, October 1827. Test Hart Clerk [seal] Jonathan Fare. 
Said Jonathan Fare at the same time filed the following affidavit of Doctor William B. Elgin viz “William B. Elgin being duly sworn says that he has been acquainted with Jonathan Fare for eight or ten years; that in consequence of mental derangement with which he was afflicted about the year 1820 or 21 the county court appointed him a guardian (E.D. Tarver) who took into possession his property and the management of his affairs;  that said guardian in order to pay the debts of said Fare sold all his property at auction on a credit of six months; that deponent understood from said guardian, that the proceeds of the sale was not sufficient to satisfy all the debts paid Fare.  Since that time I know of no property that he has acquired; that he continues infirm, tho’ so far [unreadable] to his right mind as, to be competent to attend to his business; that his wife is very old and infirm entirely unable to labour; and that he and his wife are in a state of entire dependance , supported as he believes almost entirely by the labor of two (single) single daughters - Sworn to and subscribed in open court 12th October 1827 Test Hart Clerk William B. Elgin 
Where upon it appeared to the satisfaction of the court that the said Jonathan Fare did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in his declaration aforesaid against the common enemy, for the time of two years under one engagement on this continental establishment

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All of which is ordered to be certified by the clerk; and it is further ordered by the court, that the clerk draw up and certify transcripts of the Record and proceedings had in this court on the declaration of the said Jonathan Fare 
Tennessee Smith County | I William Hart Clerk of the Circuit Court of Smith County do hereby certify that the foregoing transcript is a true declaration of Jonathan Fare and the accompanying affidavit of Wm B. Elgin filed in this court and of the proceedings had [unreadable] in said court. I do further certify that it appeared to the satisfaction of the court that said Jonathan Fare did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in his foregoing declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of two years, under an engagement in the Continental Establishment.  And I do further certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thus to annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in the town of Carthage this 12th day of October anno domini 1827. William Hart

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3
Tennessee. 446
J.Fare.
Rec. 5-July 1821.
W. Tenn.
Sep 1819

See original papers
Not entitled
J L Edwards
Jonathan Pickett,
Carthage, 
Tennessee

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State of Tennessee Smith County Court} May Term 1821 This day, to wit the 21st day of May 1821 came the guardian of Jonathan Fare here into open court, it being a court of record for the county aforesaid, and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the following is a true schedule of the property of said Jonathan Fare, to wit 140 acres of land, and mare and colt, ten head of hogs, two cows and calves, and two yearlings, two plows, and pot and kettle, and anvil and one old pair Bellows, and that he has thirty gallons of Whiskey, and six dollars and fifty cents in cash owing to him, only, and that said Fare owes one hundred and seventy dollars 54 ¾ cents; as he knows of, and he expects more, and that said Fare as he believes has not nor any other person for him, any active property or debts - due to him other than what is contained in this schedule and that he believes said Fare, has not conveyed away his property nor contracted any debts in order to bring himself within the provisions of the Act of Congress of 1820 and that said Fare is now living, and that he believes him to be mentally deranged, and in a state of insanity, had has been ever since December last part -  he also knows said Fare made declaration at August term of this court 1818 and was admitted on the pension Roll, and received pay up to the 4th of March 1820 under a certificate a copy of which is here annexed. “War Department Revolutionary claim. I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818. Jonathan Fare, law a private in the Army of the Revolution

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is inscribed in the pension list roll, of the West Tennessee agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 10th day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the war office of the United States this 21st day of July one thousand with hundred and nineteen- (signed) JC Calhoun Secretary of War and also that the said Jonathan Fare has six family besides himself, four girls, the youngest about ten years old, and one son about twelve years old and an old infirm wife, not able to labour, and himself entirely incapable of any business, the he believes it will take all the property he owns to pay his debts, and is not able to live without - public charity; and that said Fare now resides in Smith County Edmund D. Tarver Guardian for J. Fare Sworn in open court the 21st day of May 1821 Attest Jonathan Pickett Clerk

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State of Tennessee Smith County | I Jonathan Pickett Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the original on file in my office, 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 foregoing schedule is two hundred and fifty seven dollars and fifty cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Carthage, the 19th day of June A.D. 1821. And the 45th year of our Independence. J. Pickett Clerk

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38691
INVALID.
Revy 

File No. 38.691
Jonathan Faire
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 132

[Arrangement]

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1917 June 16.
History to Mr. M. Genl
For tombstone F. W.

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Copy Settlement
with
Jersey Guard

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Settlement with E.D. Tarver Guardian to Jonathan Fare- 
Henry Mioby’s [illegible] [illegible] No. 1-$5.42 James Goodwin No. 2- $6.00 George Oakley [illegible] and No. 3- .63 R. J. Christer [illegible] [illegible] do No. 4- $3.00 Joseph Collins [illegible] No. 5- 7.82 Charles M. Clullah [illegible] No. 8.25 Joseph Allision Judgement No. 7- 14.15 [illegible] to E. D Demore Smithery No. 8- 32.00 Dr. about P. M. Carlman No. 9- 19.56 [illegible mark] Dr. Benjamin Tarver No. 10 4.97 Dr. Tisman M. Sarvience No. 11- 5.68 1/4 James Raulston and No. 12- 4.00 E. D. Tarver do No. 13- 7.32 Clerks for about Pension proof - 2.70 [illegible]  $121.54 1/4 By and Sales 7 of Sept 1821 six months | -133.27  1. 73 ¼ By the undersigned being appointed by court to [illegible] with Edmund D. Tarver guardian of Jonathan Fare son upon examining papers find the whole amount of property [illegible] by said Tarver for the discharge of Fares debt amounts to $123. 37 cents and that the amount of his searching for many paid and in discharge of Fares debt is $122.73 which fully appear by the [unreadable] filed and numbered from one to 13 having a remainder of one dollar and Tarver honor which he’d think him entitled to for his services – R. Alexander  James Bellows  A. Leapy  Attest  J. Pickett Clerk

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Carthage Ten
Oct 16 - | free

Hon. John H  Eaton
Secretary of War
Department
Washington City
Pension office
30th Oct. 1829

Pension 
Jonathan Fare
Pension Claim

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Carthage Ten
Oct 16 - | free

Hon. John H Eaton
Secretary of War
Department
Washington City
Pension office
30th Oct. 1829

Pension
Jonathan Fare
Pension Claim

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Carthage Ten
Oct 16 - | free

Hon. John H Eaton
Secretary of War
Department
Washington City
Pension office
30th Oct. 1829

Pension
Jonathan Fare
Pension Claim

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Carthage, Tenn. 14 Oct. 1829 Hon. John H Eaton, Dear Sir, In December 1828 Mr. J. L Edwards informed me by letter, that the documents I had previously by forwarded to the Pension Office in the case of Jonathan Fare, were placed on file; but that no decision could be had until Mr. Fare procured and forwarded further proof. The enclosed affidavits were shortly afterwards placed in my hands, and I have delayed forwarding them until now so as to enable Mr Fare to procure if possible, some further proof. Being informed that no further proof can now be made. I herewith endorse to you Sundry affidavits, in support of the claim of Mr. Fare. Should anything further be necessary in the case, be pleased to advise me [illegible] and I will make it known to the old gentleman. I am respectfully Your Obedient Servant,
Will Hart

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Carthage T.  | [illegible mark]
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office 
War Department
Washington City 

Rec. 2 Aug. 1828

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Carthage T.  | [illegible mark]
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office 
War Department
Washington City 


Rec . 2 Aug. 1828

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This covers the February requirements in J. Fare’s case which could not be before presented.  Robert Allens

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Nashville 18th Jan. 7 1837 J. L Edwards Esq Dear Sir, I am desired by Mr. Jonathan Faire a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of Congress of March 1818. 1820 and 1823 to make a statement of his case to you, in order to ascertain if no relief can be granted him. It appears from the Pension List and Receipts in the office at this place that he was placed on the Rolls to be paid from the 10th Aug. 1818, and was paid by myself as the first Agent in this end of the state from the 10th Aug. 1818 to the 4th Sep 1819 at the rate of $8 per month $102- paid to himself and a second payment from the 4th Sept to the 4th March 1820 six months $48 , in all $150 - Mr. Faire then became deranged and remained in that situation for four or five years so much so that he was not capable of attending to his business, and during which time of his deranged state, he lost or mislaid his Pension Certificate after this time he became sane again and made applications to you for a Duplicate Certificate who was granted to him by P. G Randolph acting Secretary War dated the 20th June 1831 On which Certificate

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Mr. Thomas Crutcher the Pension Agent who succeeded me commences paying him from the 14th March 1830 to the 4th Mark 1831 $91.25 and from the 4th March 1831 to the 4th Sept. 1831 $48- the office again charged to the Bank of the Bank of the United States and Mr. Faire had been regularly paid ever since. It seems that from the 4th March 1820 that time I last paid him, to the 17th March 1830 the time T. Crutcher commenced paying him he never has received any pay for, and wishes to know of you if he can’t yet receive it, and if so what proofs must he make in order to draw it, I have no doubt of his being the same man to which both the Original and Duplicate Certificates was issued to. A copy of his duplicate Pension Certificate will be found in the last Quarter Account from this office in the year 1836 I am Respectfully Sir Your Obedient Servant Stephen Cantrell

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Mr. Faire is a very poor man and being the character of honesty and Respect in his neighborhood as I am well informed.

S.C

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Pension Office
June 20 1831

Carthage Tenn
June 7, 1831

Free
issue a new cert and
Send to Hon. R. Allen

The Acting Secretary
at War | Pension Office Department
Washington City

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Tennessee 
Carthage June 7th 1831

Sir Enclosed is Jonathan Fares affidavit and Explanation of the loss of his certificate which I hope will meet the views of the department and Enable this old man to obtain 
what I know has too long been withheld from him.
Yours [illegible] 
Robert Allen

Direct the certificate or other communication to me at this place.

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Atn Hon. John H. Eaton
Secretary of War
Washington City

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Carthage Tenn 23 Febr 1830

Hon: John H Eaton
Washington City

Dear Sir, 
At the request of Mr Jonathan Fare I herewith transfer it to you additional proof in the case. of his pension claim.  I am advised the old gentleman will not probably be able to obtain any further proof.
I am respectfully 
yo. obt. servant.

Wiliam Hart

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State of Tennessee Smith County} This day Jesse Johnson personally appeared before me Augustin Robinson an acting Justice of the Peace for said county and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now in possession of and is the owner of a certain tract of land, conveyed to him from Mr. Jonathan Fare containing forty acres it being part of said Fare’s tract of  one hundred and forty acres; that though this land is deeded to him by Mr. Fare, yet since it was in said Fare's possession it has passed through sundry persons but no deed of conveyance having been duly [unreadable] proven and he has now made a deed to  him; that he purchased the land of Micajah Walker, who bought the Land of Elijah Brien, who bought it of Isaac H Davis, who bought it of Jonathan L. Fare, who bought it of Thomas Johnson to whom said Jonathan Fare conveyed the Land by deed calling for thirty

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five acres more or less (but which on actual measurement proves to contain forty and 3/4 acres, which deed bears date the twentieth day of July 1824 but that deed never having been proven and recorded is now rescinded and said Fare has made a deed to him this 5d  Jesse Johnson;- said Thomas Johnson bought the land of Benjamin Corder who bought it of Jonathan Fare and held it by bond baring date the 22nd day of February 1823- Jesse Johnson     Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of January 1829 Augustin Robinson Justice of the Peace

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3 State of Tennessee Smith County} SS    This day Isaac H. Davis personally appeared before me Augustin Robinson an action Justice of the Peace for said county and being duly sworn deposeth and saith, That Mr. Jonathan Fare in the month of February 1823 sold to Benjamin Corder a parcel of land then supposed to contain thirty five acres, but which on measurement is said to contain forty & ¾ acres it being part of the 140 acre tract which said Fare bought of Josiah Hale and the same which is now owned by Jesse Johnson- That said Corder paid said Fare a mare saddle and bridle and gave his note for one hundred and five dollars due two years after date;- that said Fare sold the mare for a rifle gun, he gave the rifle gun for a colt, and he sold the colt to pay a debt he thinks to J.W. Anderson and W.W. Bailey but how the debt was contracted and for what he does not

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distinctly recollect, That he sold the saddle to B. Simmons, for four dollars and with the money he paid M Ashworth for subscription of his son J. L. Fare to a school, the Bridle wore out- That he traded the note for one hundred and five dollars above mentioned to Thomas B. Oakley for a mare and a cow, that he let this deponent have the mare and a he gave him fifteen barrels of corn- he sold the cow to S. Seal and took it out in work repairing the fence where he lived- Isaac H. Davis, his mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th January 1829 Augustin Robinson Justice of the Peace )

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5 State of Tennessee Smith County} This day Thomas B. Oakley personally appeared before me Augustin Robinson, and acting Justice of the Peace for said county and being duly sworn deposeth and saith - That about the year 1823 he bought a note on Benjamin Corder of Mr. Jonathan Fare for one hundred and five dollars for which he paid said Fare a mare rated at one hundred dollars and a five dollar cow- Thomas B. Oakley Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of January 1829 Augustin Robinson Justice of the Peace)

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6 State of Tennessee Smith County} This day George Oakley personally appeared before me Augustin Robinson an acting Justice of the Peace for said county and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was present and witnessed the bond when Jonathan Fare sold the 40 acre tract of Land which is now owned by Jesse Johnson to Benjamin Corder, that said Corder paid said Fare an old mare Bridle & saddle and gave his note for the balance $105 which note he traded to his Brother W. B. Oakley for a mare and cow- George Oakley Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of January 1829 Augustin Robinson Justice of the Peace)

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7 Tennessee Smith County}  I Jonathan Pickett Clerk of the Court Pleas of Quarter Sessions for the County of Smith in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that Augustin Robinson Esquire before whom the forgoing affidavits of Jesse Johnson, Isaac H. Davis, Thomas B. Oakley and George Oakley, were subscribed and sworn to on the 20th January 1829, as approved by aforesaid to said affidavits, then was and ever is, and acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforementioned, duly commissioned and Sworn [seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set any hand and affixed the seal of said County at Office in Carthage this 14 October 1829. J. Pickett clerk

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Jon. Fare
Pension claimant
Smith County Tenn.

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Tennessee Smith County}  October Term 1828 of the Circuit Court for said County. Be it remembered that at a Circuit Court of Law and Equity began and held for the county aforesaid on the 2nd Monday in October anno domini 1828 present this honorable Nathaniel W. Williams Judge. 
This day to wit 15 October 1828 personally appeared in open court Elijah Parkhurst and Moses Ashworth and made oath that they are well acquainted with Jonathan Fare and Jonathan L Fare, and live near them; and that said Elijah Parkhurst now owns and lives on the tract of land formerly owned by Jonathan Fare, and conveyed by him to Jonathan L. Fare, and which is described in the copy of the deed hereunto to appended & that they know not by what means the said Jonathan L. Fare procured said land to be conveyed to him from Jonathan Fare; but they do know that since such conveyance the said Jonathan L. Fare has sold the land and appropriated the procured in various ways, has spent the whole; and is now insolvent and that Jonathan Fare does not desire any involvement directly or indirectly from the land; and that he is reduced to a state of want, and entire dependance. Sworn to & subscribed in open court 15 October 1828     Moses Ashworth Elijah Parkhurst, his mark    Hart clerk    Whereupon it is ordered by the court that the original affidavit be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court; and that said clerk certify a copy thereof and forward the same to the pension office, together with the copy of the deed from Jonathan Fare to Jonathan L. Fare, certified by the Register of Smith County, and which is referred to in said affidavit. A copy from the Records of said Court Hart Clerk

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Tennessee Smith County}    William Hart clerk of the Circuit court for Smith County do hereby certify, to whom it may concern, that the foregoing Transcripts, contains a true copy of the original affidavit of Moses Ashworth and Elijah Parkhurst, (now filed in my office, and of the proceedings had thereon in said Court. I do further certify that said court, is a court of Record; and that the deed hereunto appended marked Exhibit A, is the deed referred to in the within affidavit, and order of the court thereon.    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in Carthage, 2 Monday in October. Anno domini 1828. [seal] William Hart

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This indenture made this nineteenth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty four between Jonathan Fare of Smith County and state of Tennessee of the one part and Jonathan L. Fare of the county and state aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said Jonathan Fare for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to have in hand paid by said Jonathan L. Fare the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged hath bargained sold aliened conveyed and confirmed unto the said Jonathan L. Fare his heir and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of Fare situated lying and being in the county of Smith and State aforesaid and on the waters of Mulherin creek bounded as following viz Beginning at a bush and dogwood it be the north west corner of said Tract running there East 140 poles to a buckeye and sugar tree on the west side of Mulherin creek there across said creek with the meanders of the creek to a bush and sugar tree thence west still with the meanders of said creek to said Jonathan Fares west boundary line thence North to the beginning containing by computation one hundred acres be the same more or less said granted premise being a part of said Tract of land granted to Hardy Murfree by the state of North Carolina by grant number one hundred and thirty four. To have and to hold the above granted premises, with all singular right prophets, importunities [unreadable] appertaining to the only prophet use and behalf all of him the said Jonathan L. Fare his

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heir, and assigns forever and the said Jonathan Fare for himself his heirs executor and administrator doth covenant and agree to and with the said Jonathan Fare his heirs and assigns the before recited land and bargained premises will warrant and defend forever against the right title interest or claim of all and [unreadable] person or persons whatever - In testimony whereof the said Jonathan Fare hath hereunto set his hand and seal this day and date above written- Signed sealed and delivered in presence of us- Benjamin W. Davis Isaac Ross Davis | a.k.d Jonathan Fare [seal] State of Tennessee Smith County Court} August term 1824 there the inspection of this [unreadable] and Bargain of sale from Jonathan Fare to Jonathan L. Fare for one hundred acres of land was duly acknowledged in open court by Jonathan Fare the bargainor and on motion ordered to be certified for registration - Attest Jonathan Pickett Clerk Of Smith county court Registered October 6th 1826

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State of Tennessee
Smith County | Registers office Carthage October 15th, 1828
I hereby certify that the within deed from Jonathan Fare to Jonathan L. Fare with the Clerks [illegible] date are a true copy from the Books in my office. Registered in Book I page 30 
Alexr Allison Register
[illegible] H.
Hart Ck

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Restore-
pen: to com: 17 March 1830
Recorded from H. Hart
Carthage Ten
March 17

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State of Tennessee Smith County} This day came James Lankford & Isaac R. Davis Before me J. M. Coffee one of the action justices of the peace in and for said County and being duly sworn according to law dispose and say upon oath that they lived near Mr. Jonathan Fare sometime bout the year one thousand, eight hundred and twenty two at which time said Fare became insane, and continued so for some considerable length of time, that after he had partially recovered from this state of insanity, yet to all human appearance he would never be able to husband his own business, or provide for himself and family. - His family got him to transfer the right of one hundred acres of his land, into the hands of Jonathan L. Fare (his son) for the purpose of supporting his father, mother and sisters in their helplessness situation;- now these deponents further say upon oath that this was the only design they had in having said transfer made into the hand of the said Jonathan L. Fare, of said hundred acres of Land - These deponents further deposed and say that the balance of said, Jonathan Fare’s hand which was forty acres he himself sold to Benjamin Corder, the proceeds of which they believe was appropriated to the support of said Jonathan Fare and family-

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These deponents further depose and say that said Jonathan L. Fare has appropriated all the proceeds arising from the sale of the hundred acres of land transferred to him, to the support to support of his father Jonathan and family as they believe-
These deponents further depose and say that they believe that the whole of the hundred and forty acres of land has been expended in supporting the said Jonathan Fare and family, that is, one hundred acres by his son Jonathan L Fare and forty acres sold by himself
Sworn to and subscribed by before me 14th December 1829 
J M Coffee 
Justice of the Peace
for Smith County} his x mark James Langford Isaac R Davis

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We whose names are hereunto subscribed do certify that we believe Jonathan Fare and family are now in a situation of extreme indignance and poverty from which they are unable to extricate themselves
J. M. Coffee               Merchant 
John Luckey              S.M.
Jacob Fite                  Merchant
Samuel O. Quarles    Merchant
Thomas Moore          Planter 
John Dedmund       Planter
John Moore             Planter
B.D. Hynds               Planter
Isac R. Davis	        Planter
Lewis McGann         Planter
Eton Turner 	          Carpenter
W. N. Bailey              Carpenter
H. L. Fargason           Cabinet
James Barry 	         Minister of the gospel
Jesse Fuller               Planter
Fletcher Barnett    Planter
Harris Fulcer            Planter
Bennet Williams     Planter
S. W. Fuller 	          Planter
Reuben Moore     Planter |
Wm H Gillam            Planter
Lisha Moore              Planter
William Ritchen      Planter
S. A. W. E Abbott           [illegible]
James W, Anderson   Farmer
Joseph Anderson       Farmer
William Moore          Farmer 
William Barnett        Farmer
Lemuel Barnett       Farmer
Thomas Belcher      Farmer
John Belcher              Farmer
Benjamin Paris         Farmer
Samuel Hooker        Farmer
Thomas Snider       Farmer
Stephen Baroch     Farmer
Wm Sampson          Farmer
Woodson Fite           Farmer 
George Denney        Farmer
Daniel Allen              Farmer
David Buchanan    
Henry Dany             Farmer
James Davenport       Farmer
Laman Thompson      Court
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Jonathan M. Barry     Planter
Robert B Williams    Minister of the gospel

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TENNESSEE Smith County} I Jonathan Pickett Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter Session for the county aforesaid to hereby certify that Joshua M. Coffee Esq. whose signature appears to the written attestation aforesaid is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and was at the time said affidavit was sworn to subscribed before him [seal] in testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Carthage this 23rd February 1830. J. Pickett  clerk

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James E Heath Eqs Commissioner of Pensions Washington Jonathan Faire Jan 18 Mar
Mr Cole July 3rd 1837   [unreadable] Tennessee  July 8 - 57

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James E. Health, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Jonathan Faire  Jan 18  Mar 5
Mr. Cole
July 7th 1857
[unreadable] Tennessee  July 8 ‘57

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Washington City 
July 7th 1851

To the Commissioner 
of Pensions

Sir respectfully ask the privilege of examining the papers in the case of Jonathan Fare filed here by Andrew Ewing M C during the last Congress for the purpose of preparing it for Decision
Respectfully
A Fergusson atty 


James E Heath Esqs
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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J .L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D.C. 
March   Nov 3
JW Al.
Jonathan Faire 
Hon. W. B. Campbell

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J .L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D.C. 
March   Nov 3
JW Al.
Jonathan Faire 
Hon. W. B. Campbell

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House of Representatives
Feb 3rd. 1838
Sir,
Will you be kind enough to communicate to me the reasons which induced the Commissioner of Pensions to strike the name of Jonathan Faire of Tennessee, from the roll of Pensioners, about the year 1820, and continued him this striked from the roll of suspended until 1830-

You will much oblige me by giving me any information you may possess on this subject- with great respect
W. B. Campbell 

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

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Dictation in order to restrictions in the Pension lists under the out of find March 1823
State of Tennessee, Smith County} SS.  On this 28th day of February 1825 personally appeared in open Court being a court of Record for the county aforesaid Jonathan Fare a resident citizen of said County for twenty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made  by the Act of Congress on  the 18 March 1818, 11 May 1820.  That the said Jonathan Fare enlisted under Captain Thomas Hutchinson for a term of two years [unreadable] March 1776 in the State of Virginia in the Company Commanded by Captain Thomas Hutchinson and afterward Captain Dunn in the Sixth Regiment commanded by Colonel Mordecai Buckner in the [unreadable] State of Virginia in the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until 1778 which time was discharged from the service at Valley Forge [unreadable] has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property in pursuance to the Act of the 11th May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a [unreadable] Citizen of the United States on the 18th  day of March 1978 and that I have not [unreadable]] that time by gift labor or any means disposed of my property or any part thereof or intend disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent to diminish it as to bring myself within the [unreadable] of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property annuities contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is Contained in schedule hereto annexed sworn and subscribed -

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And that the following is [unreadable] of the property had I [unreadable] own (except the clothing the man wears) to not and old mare saddle, one cow and for [unreadable] due to him.  That his occupation is that of a Blacksmith and has from his wounds and age infirmities with which he has been afflicted for a number of years, he has been unable to obtain a living by manual labour that himself and wife is about 64 years of age and the only family which he has and that she is also very infirm and that they both live with their children who are married – Jonathan Hart [seal]
The following is an amount of the property exhibited in this first exhibits and [unreadable] by applicant [unreadable] rule is an following [unreadable]
140 acres land Jonathan L. Faire { to him and [unreadable]
1 mare and colt [unreadable] G. Gardiner
10 [unreadable]
2 [unreadable] property of Jonathan Harry
1 pot
1 skillet
1 [unreadable]
1 [unreadable]
3 [unreadable]
Description of property  [unreadable] above sold as August 1824
Sworn to in open court the 28th July 1825
Jonathan Fare
Test  J. Pickett, Clerk

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State of Tennessee Smith County I Jonathan Pickett, Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for said County do hereby certify thus the foregoing oath and schedule thus annexed and truly copied from the original now on file in my office and that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount is [unreadable] of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule, is fifteen Dollars. In testimony whereof I have here to set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office Carthage this 11th day of February 1826 50th year of our Independence. [seal] J Pickett Clerk

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State of Tennessee Smith County On this the 30 day of May 1831 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County of Smith personally appeared Jonathan Fare who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain Dunn in the regiment Commanded by Colonel Buckner in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Tennessee that had a certificate of the that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War: which certificate on or about the year 1822 or 1823 was lost or taken out of this possession in Smith County without his knowledge he supposes in the way about that time his mind became impaired in such a way as caused the County Court of Smith County to appoint a guardian to transact his business during that time his papers were handled by others who now can give him no account of the certificate Edmond D. Tarver was the guardian who has left the Country and has stated he knows nothing about the certificate which induces this deponent to believe that it was destroyed as a useless

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paper during the time that he was struck off the pension roll and his mind deranged,
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid

D. A. McEachern Justice. Peace
Jonathan Faire

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State of Tennessee
Smith County 
On this day the 30th day of May 1831: before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in said county of Smith personally appeared James W. Anderson who on his oath declares that Jonathan Fare is the identical man described in the annexed affidavit who swears he was on the pension roll of West Tennessee and lost his certificate and further that he Anderson believes he was on said pension roll and has lost his certificate as related to him sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above stated and I do further certify that the said James W. Anderson is a man Entitled to Credit on his oath and of good character

D. A. McEachern Justice Peace 
James W. Anderson

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State of Tennessee Smith County} I Jonathan Pickett Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said county do hereby Certify that Daniel A. McEachern before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, now is, and was at the time said affidavit was made; an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the State and County of aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified according to law. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at office in Carthage this 6th day of June 1831 and 53rd year of our Independence J. Pickett Clerk-
I John Chambers Chairman of Smith County Court- do hereby certify that I Jonathan Pickett Esquire is Clerk of Smith County Court and that [unreadable] as such is in due from of [unreadable]  Given under my name this 6th June 1831 John Chambers Chairman

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W. E. S.  12,563 4 Tennessee Jonathan Faire in the state of        who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Buckner of the Virginia Line, for the term of 2 years Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee At the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of August 1818. Certificate of Pension issued 17 of July 1819 and sent to Thos Stuart Carthage Smith County Tenn Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 54.70 Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 September 48—112.70 6.26   .31  {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March,1818} Discontinued

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[unreadable] sent to Jonathan Pickett [unreadable] 27 July 1841  Carthage Tennessee
24   31  6-70  48 54.18

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To the Honorable J.C. Calhoun Secretary of War the Declaration of Jonathan Faire sheweth that he enlisted as a soldier about the beginning of March in the year 1776 in Pittsylvania County in Virginia in the Virginia line of the Army of The United States during the revolutionary war in Captain Thomas Hitchins company in the sixth regiment commanded by Colonel Mordecai Buckner, for the term of two years, and served the United States continually during said term of two years, part of the time as a soldier and part of the time as a sergeant and at the end of the two years, at Valley Forge he received discharge in writing from Gen Weedon, which was soon lost. That very shortly after he was discharged, some of his acquaintances came into the army and he staid with them and General Weedon requested him to remain with his company and he should act as orderly sergeant on which he continued in his company as orderly sergeant without any new enlistment that when General Morgan started to go to the Cowpens he got volunteers from the continental army and this declarant volunteered to go with him and did go, and remained in the army until the peace and the general discharge of the American Army, that he never received any other discharge than the one about named which is lost. That was in the battle of Brandy Wyne, the battle of Germantown, in the siege of Fort Mifflin and in a battle at The Redbank, in the battle of Trenton, he was in the battle of Guilford, and was at the siege of York that he was wounded in the thigh by a musket ball at the ball at the battle of Somerset Court House, he was wounded in the finger in a scouting party in North Carolina he was lightly wounded in the head in the Battle of Germantown that he is upwards of sixty years of age, that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the aid of his county for

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for his support. He has a set of Black smiths tools, a cow, its calf, a mare, has bought fifty acres of hilly rocky land which he purchased for fifty dollars but the same is still unpaid and he now is able to work very little, his youngest child is thirteen years of age and his wife very sickly and infirm he never has received any pension and releases all claims to any except that under the act of congress of 1818 which he now claims. Jonathan Faire 
State of Tennessee to wit. This day personally appeared before me Thomas Stuart one the Judges of the Circuit court for the State of Tennessee Jonathan Faire the above named declarant and made oath that the facts set forth in the above declaration are true to the best of his knowledge sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd day of March 1819.  Jonathan Fare   Thomas Stuart 
State of Tennessee to wit. This day personally appeared before me Thomas Stuart one the Judges of the Circuit court for the State of Tennessee Micajah Sims and made oath that he enlisted in Captain Thomas Hutchins company in the sixth regiment of the Virginia line on the last day of February 1776 and in the month of March after he first knew the above named Jonathan Faire as a soldier in said company that this deponent enlisted for two years, and understood that the above named Jonathan Faire enlisted for two years also, and that the whole company enlisted for the same term of the two years. That when this deponents term expired he was discharged and left the Army and left Jonathan Faire with the army that said Jonathan continually served The United States from the time this deponent first knew him until this deponent was discharged at first as a soldier and afterwards as a sergeant. That this deponent never afterwards knew anything of said Jonathan Faire until about five years ago he found him in the State of Tennessee in Smith County he lives about four miles from him, he is poor and stands in need of the aid of his country for his support. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd March1819. Thomas Stuart     Micajah Sims

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State of Tennessee to wit Personally appeared before me William Lawrence and made oath that he has known the above named Johnathan Faire for thirty years and has always understood he was soldier in the revolutionary war that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the aid of his country for his support, that from his general character he considers him to be a man of truth and ought to be believed on his oath. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23d March 1819. William Lawrence   Thomas Stuart a Judge of the courts  
State of Tennessee to wit   This day personally appeared before me William Parker and made oath that he has known Jonathan Faire for five years and he believes him to be a man of truth who may be believed on his oath. That he has very little property is infirm and needs aid of his country for his support. Sworn to and subscribed before me This 23f of March 1819    William Parker    Thomas Stuart a Judge of the circuit courts 
State of Tennessee to wit   This day personally appeared before me William Wilson and made oath that he has lived near Jonathan Faire for three years, that he believes him to be a man of truth and to be believed on his oath, that he is a very poor man has little property of any account he has an old set of Blacksmiths tools, he is very infirm can work but little and knows no other property except some household furniture, he has two daughters who live with him and assist in supporting him as he believes, that he is in very reduced circumstances & needs the aid of his country for his support. William Wilson, his mark    Thomas Stuart      a Judge of the courts
State of Tennessee to wit   I Thomas Stuart one of the Judges of the circuit court for the State of Tennessee do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Jonathan Faire served the United States continually as a regular soldier for nine months and more during the revolutionary war in manner as set forth in the above declaration, and that said Jonathan Faire is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the aid of his country and for his support.  In testimony where of I have hereto set my hand and directed the clerk of the circuit court of Smith County to affix hereto the seal of said court. It being the circuit court in which I now preside as Judge, Carthage the 23.d day of March 1819 Thomas Stuart.

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I John W. Overton- Clerk of the circuit court of Smith County in the State of Tennessee do certify that Thomas Stuart who has taken and attended the within affidavit and who has given and attended the within certificate is a judge of the circuit courts of the State of Tennessee and is now presiding in the circuit court of Smith County, and in pursuance of his direction I have here to set my hand affixed my private seal there being no public seal of office yet provided at office in the Town of Carthage this 21th day of March 1819. John W. Overton Clerk Smith Circuit Court 
Old cases. First declarations One numbered 1888 & were returned for further evidence