Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11449, William White, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
White, William
P11449
CONTENTS

State of Tennessee Gibson County on this 20 th day of April A D 1849 personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county and state aforesaid William White aged 85 years who is too old and Infirm to attend court who is a resident of the said County of Gibson and State of Tennessee who being first duly sworn ac- -cording to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here stated that He entered the service in the year 1781 in the month of April agreeable to the best of recollection of this declarant but owing to age and heretofore affliction his memory is very bad under the following named officers to wit Green general and and was Major and Robert Williams was Captain in the state of Virginia This declarant was mustered into service in the county of Pittsylvania and he then lived in said county and state that the was command and corps that this declarant was then attached marcht from the place of Nansemond to Dan River where they was stationed to keep the British from crossing during the war he further states that he was a volunteer

then he afterwards entered the service of the united States as a substitute for Newbern White in the month of  1781 to the best of his recollection under the following  company officers Charles Hutchins captain and Climent M c Lean Lieutenant and  M c Gahue Ensign This declarant was then mustered into service in the county of Pittsylvania where he then lived and in the state of Virginia and that the command and corps that this declarant  then attached marched from said county to York Town and he further states that he was at the Surrender of Cornwallis and helped to guard the prisoners to Maryland and received his discharge at a ferry on the bank of the Potomac River when his time of service expired he further states that he was regularly dis- charged from service in both services but has long since misplaced the same he states that his whole time of service was fully six months he hereby relinquishes every claim 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
William White
State of Tennessee Gibson County ss This day Joseph Wyatt and John S Fullerton two citizens of said county and made oath that they are well acquainted with William White the above applicant for a pension under the act of congress of June the 7 th 1832 and that the said William White has always been —

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William White
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William White
Guarantee of the above

respected and accepted in the neighbourhood and among his acquaintances as a soldier of the revolution and considered a man of faith
Joseph Wyatt John S. Fullerton
I Samuel Y Thomas - a clergyman residing in the county of Gibson of the B. Presbyterian Church do certify that I have been acquainted with William White for about twelve years that he has been during all that time received and accepted and thought to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war
Samuel Y. Thomas
State of Tennessee Gibson County
I Samuel M Lawrance a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid do certify that the above William White this day made oath to the above declaration and that I propounded the interrogations required by the war department and after examining Joseph Wyatt and John S Fullerton and Samuel Y Thomas a clergyman all of whom I certify to be respect- able and entitled to credit and I do concur and believe that the declarant was a soldier of the revo- lution I further certify that the said applicant app- ears to be as old as stated and could not go to court to make said application without great incon- venience to him self and others given under my hand and as Justice of the peace for the county and state aforesaid Samuel M. Lawrance

State of Tennessee
Wilson County
I James A. M c Dearmon clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel M c Soranna whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn and that his commission as dated on the 16 th day of March 1848 and will expire on the 16 th day of March 1854
Given under my hand and at office and the seal of the court aforesaid this 21 st day of April 1849 J. A. M c Dearmon

Know all men by These presents that I William White of the county of Gibson and state of Tennessee do constitute and appoint William J Shaw of the county of Fulton and state of Kentucky my true and lawful attorney in fact with power of sub- stitution to demand and receive from the proper - officers of the General Government all moneys that may be due me on account of my services as a soldier in the revolutionary war and to do all other acts necessary to a complete execution of the premises hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute may do by virtue of these presents witness my hand and seal This 20 th day of April 1849
William White
State of Tennessee Gibson County
personally appeared before the undersigned acting justice of the peace for the county and state aforesaid William - White and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his act and deed and for the purposes therein - contained April 20 th 1849
Isaac M. Lowman

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11449 3
P. O. William White
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No 37694 William White Iron
Sister to S. W. Gibson 8 th Oct r 1849 in Ken. L. T. T. n. y.
June 24. 1857-
Don Wallam June 27 1834
Shone Aug 4 1854
Rev. F. Gallicopter May 8. 1858
11 H 19 Oct. 7 Mch 1832

House of Reps., Washington, May 3/58.
Sir;
Be so good as to get the information sought for in the enclosed letter - and furnish it to me - returning the letter to me, at your earliest convenience.
Very Respectfully W. K. Zollicoffer
Hon. G. C. Platt, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Washington 19 th July 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir
I wrote you some time since in reference to the pension of William White your answer was not suffici- ently explicit to release the parties from apprehension will you please examine the enclosed letter of Mrs White just and give me an early answer
Yours truly Wm Cullom

Washington 22 nd June 1854
Hon L. p. Waldo
Enclosed please find The letter of W m White Esq r making certain enquiries relative to the application for a pension for the services of his Father please report the facts to me at your earliest convenience Yours M c Callum

Sturminster Key. June the 19 th 1849 J. S. Edwards Esqr
Read Sir I enclose you The applications for pensions under the act of June the 7 th 1832 I show that the loans will pass they have been prepared by a Mr John Shaw a very much of a Gent but he is unskilled in the business - so I good as to inform me of this fact at your earliest convenience I show they will pass as the applicants are in fact a truth very indigent I am Sir your humble Servant etc.
J. P. Gibson
as you will see that Mr White lives in Cannapord & Moorhills lies in Graves county Ky but send them both here to the care of the subscriber by August. etc
J. P. Gibson