Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,398, John Wiggs, N.C.

SERVICE
Wiggs, John Cherry
NUMBER
W.4398
CONTENTS

4028
North Carolina
Cherry Wiggs
widow of John Wiggs
who was a private Infy & Cav y Cavalry in the North Carolina line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars 71 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of December 1843 and sent to George Little Raleigh
North Carolina
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 11.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6. April 1838 from 4 th Sep to 30. Nov 1841. Agt notified 5 Dec r 1844
Rep
28 Dec 1843

North Carolina 16,275
John Wiggs 16,275 of Wayne in the State of North Carolina who was a prisoner in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Caswell in the North Carolina line for 8 months & 14 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina: at the rate of 30 Dollars 71 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of July 33 and sent C. Wash =ington (clerk)
Arrears to the 4th of March 33 - 61.42 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept - 15.35 $76.77
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm Miller Clerk, Book E. Vol. 6. Page 59

1836.
See let. to Agt Mar 30. 1836 Order to pay 9. Africa 1841.

State of North Carolina } Superior Court of Law County of Wayne } Fall Term 1832.
On this first post day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court John Wiggins before J. S. Dapridge Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Wayne now sitting John Wiggins aged 74 years a resident of the County & State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. ~
That he entered the service of the United States by Draft about six months before the battle of Brice Creek in Georgia, as a private under Captain Wm. Fellows and Lieut. Jacob Hooks. That he was enlisted for the term of six months. - He was first marched to Wilmington N.C. and then placed under command of Captain Kennedey - Major Rich Grantham & Colo: Wm. Laswell. After a stay at Wilmington of about three weeks, he was ordered to the south. From Wilmington he was marched to the Cape Fear River which they crossed at Waddell's Ferry. - Thence to Elizabeth where he was stationed a few days - thence passing through Lumberton ordered to Augusta (Georgia) - Declarant remembers no towns in S.C. through which he passed on this tour. He remembers however being stationed a few days at a place called White Marsh
where he used - - - saw beans

At Augusta Declarant was placed under Gen. Greene at which place he was left by his company to attend, by permission of Capt. Kinney, upon a sick brother who was also in the Army. He had remained several weeks in Augusta thus employed when he learned the news of the Defeat at the Battle of Brim Creek. The company to which Declarant belonged immediately dispersed and returned home as each man's term of service being almost expired. He never afterwards saw his corps embodied but on his return home found the shattered fragments.
The Battle of Brim Creek was only a few days, only about a week, according to Declarant's best recollection before he would have been entitled to a discharge. He received no written discharge and he believes none of the men in the company to which he belonged ever stayed to receive one but he avers that he served out his term of six months exactly a week or thereabout.
In 1779 or 1780 Declarant cannot say which he enlisted as private in a company of Light Artillery under Captain Boon for a term of three months to suppress insurrection in Wayne and the adjoining Counties and procure from the disaffected in those Counties provisions for the Army. He served out his term of three months and was dismissed honorably but he believes there was no written discharge.
After Lord Cornwallis landed at Wilmington and was marching through N.C. there was a

voluntary service of ten days in which Declarant engaged as Sergeant under Captain Daniel Lofly The object was to prevent Cornwallis if possible from passing Neuse River - was quartered this time at Fellow's Branch - and after the expiration of the term was honor- ably dismissed - The Declarant has no documentary evidence of his said services but can prove most of it to be true by Esthreda Lerrigan who was his fellow soldier most of the time - He served in the State of Light-Blue - He also be proved by his Captain Daniel Lofly, but for with great age and infirmities he has been in  lived in  Chilton County, Va. - Declarant is 74 years of age according to a record in a Family Bible . Large pocket book of the family - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State - He has always lived in the County of Wayne Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
John W. Wiggs mark
We John D. Dwell, a clergyman residing in Wayne Co and Richard Lerrigan residing in the County of Wayne do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Wiggs who has subscribed and sworn the above Declaration - that we believe him to be about 74 years of age - and that he is generally believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been

a Revolutionary Soldier. And we concur in that opinion Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore said
John Howell Richard S. Ferrigan
I Etheldrea Ferrigan, do hereby certify that I was with John Wiggs in his first term of service stated in this his Decla- ration until he was left at Augusta and also was with him in the ten days service of which he speaks - and I know the main facts therein stated to be true -
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore said.
Etheldrea for Ferrigan
And the said Court do hereby declare its opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier as he states - Since the Court further certifies that it appears that John Howell is a clergyman residing in Wayne Co., and that Richard Ferrigan signed the above certificate as a credible person residing in the County of Wayne - and the statement is entitled to credit
J. V. Daniel 1838
1 April
Isaac Holson Washington Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Wayne do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of
John Wiggs for a pension on his testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
Given the second day of October 1838
I. Washington CLK
Mrs. Wiggs. Declaration etc.
13.4/76

Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department etc To John Wiggs
Question 1 st When & in what year were you born?
Ans. I was born in Wayne County N. Carolina 25. January 1758
Question 2 nd Have you any record of your age - and if so, where is it?
Ans. I have no other record of my age than a large pocket Book in which it is recorded - in the handwriting of my father - which is now in possession of my sister, in Wayne Co.
Ques. 3. When were you born when called into service - when have you lived since the Revolution and where do you now live?
Ans. I lived when called into service in Wayne Co. N.C. - where I now live, and where I have always lived - except about ten or twelve years which time I spent in Sampson Co. N.C.
Ques. 4 th How were you called into service - were you drafted - did you volunteer - or were you a substitute - and if a substitute - for whom?
Ans. I was drafted in my first term of service - or as it was then called battalions for six months - In my second and third term I volunteered.
Ques. 5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops when you served - such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Ans. I cannot remember the names of any of the Regular or Continental Officers or Regiments - more than those stated in my above Declaration - He saw but little of them and had very little connection with them - The general circumstances of my service are related in my Declaration above, as fully as I can remember them.
Ques. 6. Did you ever receive a discharge - etc?
Ans. I received no discharge - The reasons are assigned in my above Declaration - I received no Commission when I acted as Sergeant in the ten days Service spoken of in my Declaration.
Ques. 7. State the names of -
Ans. I can state no persons to whom I am

present night-hawk and who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief as to my services as a soldier of Revolution the Reverend John Howell, William Langston, Sampson Lane Esq. & Calvin Coor Esq. Sworn to and subscribed the 20th day of March John X Wiggins mark
I Nicholson Washington Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Macon do hereby certify that this paper is a part of the original proceedings of said Court at their Fall Term 1832 in the matter of the application of John Wiggins for a pension. I further certify that the answers to the above interrogatories were made under oath in open court at time aforesaid Term.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this second day of April - 1833
N. Washington Clerk
1762 1832 06

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7 th July 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows." -
State of North Carolina } Wayne County } S.S.
On this 5 th day of June 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Mrs. Cherry Wiggs resident of Wayne County aged 80 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" - That she is the widow of John Wiggs deceased who was a pensioner as a soldier of the Revolutionary War, at the rate of Thirty Dollars and Seventy five cents per annum. She further declares she was legally married to the above said John Wiggs in the County of Sampson State before said in the Spring of the year 1782, (as well as she can recollect) by the Revd. Fleet Cooper a minister of the Gospel. That she has five children, none of the ages of whom are now registered to her knowledge, That her oldest Daniel Wiggs lives in the State of Alabama and is 60 years old - That her next oldest is Parson Wiggs who lives,

man to her, and is in his 58 th year; that her next child is Grace Gurley wife of Lewis Gurley, (with whom, this declarant now resides) and is 56 years old. — That some 8 years after she was married to the foregoing John Wiggs, they removed on into Wayne County, where they have resided ever since, up to the time of his death, which was on the 30 th day of December 1841, in the 80 th year of his age. — That she was not married to the said John Wiggs prior to his leaving the Service, but previous to the 1 st day of January 1794, viz at the time above stated and that she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed —
Cherry her Wiggs
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me — Willie Hastings Jp
State of North Carolina
Wayne County
I hereby certify I am personally acquainted with Mrs Cherry Wiggs as above that she is one of the oldest person in this County and of sound memory but from bodily infirmity she is unable to attend at the Court — House of the County I further certify that she is a

Respectable person and her statement is entitled To full faith and credit - given under my hand and Seal this 5 th June 1843
Willie Hastings JP

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 28, 1843.
Sir:
Under the act 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," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of John Wiggs, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at the rate of thirty Dollars and 71 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June  1832 , has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. to the 30 th Nov. 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
J. Woodruff
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

10,137 Cherry Wiggs. act 7 July 38
N.B. July 7. 1838
Cherry Wiggs attnd Stno. 1481 pnc Infy Havoc 30 th Nov
Richard Randolph Esq. Present June 12. 1843.

State of North Carolina
Wayne County
On this 5 th June 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County George Bridges resident of said County aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law deposes & saith: That he has been well acquainted with John Wiggins deceased who was a Prisoner, and Mrs Cherry Wiggins his widow now applying for a pension for upwards of Fifty years. That he was acquainted with John Wiggins as far back as he can remember, having been raised near to him, that he will recollect when John Wiggins went to Sampson County to be married to his wife Mrs Cherry Wiggins who is now applying for a pension. That after they were married they resided in Sampson Co: some eight or ten years, and then removed over into Wayne - when they came to Wayne County, they brought with them four children the oldest of whom, Daniel Wiggins, Ransom Wiggins and Mrs Grace Gurney the wife of Lewis Gurney, (with whom Mrs Cherry Wiggins now lives) he is personally known to, and is convinced they are fully as old as their mother declares. And his declaration he believes to be true and correct in every particular. That John Wiggins

and Mrs Cherry Briggs have been living ever since in Wayne County as husband and wife, been recognized and reputed as such by every person who knew them. - That although he was not at their marriage, he has frequently heard them speak of it, and he is fully convinced it took place at the time alleged by the widow, Mrs Briggs. - That when Briggs died in November 1841, aged he is understood about 80 years, and Mrs Cherry Briggs, who is the identical person who came with him, as his wife, and to whom he has frequently heard him say he, was married at the time alleged, in Sampson Co.? has remained a widow ever since. -
his George X Bridges mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me - Willie Hastings JP State of North Carolina Wayne County
I certify I am personally acquainted with George Briggs as a bona fide that he is a bona fide citizen of the county, is a man of truth and veracity and full faith and credit may be given to his statement given under my hand and Seal This 15 th of June 1843 Willie Hastings JP Seal

State of North Carolina Wayne County
3 I John A Green clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been shown at the office of said court that Geo Wiggins & Henry Wiggins has lived together as husband & wife & so reputed to be for the space of fifty years past - I further certify that Willie Hastings is an acting justice of the Peace in said county & that the sig- -natures purporting to be his are genuine —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said office this the 7 th day of June A.D. 1843. John A Green clerk

State of North Carolina Wayne County. ss
On this 5 th day of June 1843 personally appeared before the Subordinate one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Lewis Gurley resident of Wayne County in the 64 th year of his age, who being first duly sworn, testifies and says that he has been well acquainted with John Briggs deceased and his widow Mrs. Charity Briggs who is now applying for a pension, as far back as he can remember which is upwards of Fifty years - that they have resided in Wayne County as husband and wife, and been reported, for that space of time - That he has all along understood they were married in and around here, the County of Sampson County - That he is well acquainted with all the children of Mr. Briggs and Mrs. Briggs deceased, and believes them to be the age stated by her; Raisina Briggs is a near neighbor of his, and he is fully convinced she is as old as his mother states; that his wife is the daughter of Mr. Briggs and Mrs. Briggs, and he all along understood she was two years younger than her brother Raisina, and calls herself 56 years old. - That John Briggs was a pensioner as a soldier of the War of the Revolution, at the rate of Thirty dollars and Seventy five cents per annum, which

will now fully appear by reference to his Pension Certificate, which is now in the possession of Mr Leigges - And that he died on the 30th day of November 1841 aged as he has generally believed, about 80 years. — Lewis Gworeley
Given to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me State of North Carolina Wayne County Willie Hastings JP
I certify I am personally acquainted with Lewis Gurley as a know that he is a man of respectability and full faith and credit may be given to his Statement given under my hand and Seal this 5th June 1843 Willie Hastings JP Seal

State of North Carolina
Wayne County ss. On this 5 th June 1843 personally appeared before the Subscribers a true copy of the Petition in and for said County. John W. Loper a resident of the County of Wayne, who being first duly sworn, according to law, testifies and says that he has been acquainted for a number of years with John Wiggins deceased, and his widow Mrs. Cherry Wiggins now applying for a pension. That he is also acquainted with Daniel Wiggins and Rufus Wiggins the children of Mrs. Wiggins as above, and believes them to be fully as old as she represents in her declaration. That he is also well acquainted with Lewis Gully who married the daughter of Mrs. Wiggins, and from his known character for veracity, believes his statement relative to Mrs. Wiggins to be true. That John Wiggins deceased, was a pensioner at the rate of thirty dollars and sixty one cents per annum. And that Mrs. Cherry Wiggins who is now applying for a pension he believes is one of the oldest persons in this region of Country. —
John W. Loper
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me — Willie Hastings, JP

State of North Carolina) I her by Surtefy I am Wayne County & personally acquainted With John W. Sasser as above that he is a man of the highest respectability and full faith and credit on due to his statement given under my hand and seal this 5 th of June 1843 William Kingsland

4608 Oct 3. 1843
M rs Cherry Wiggs. Oct 1843
$30.71 per an
Scrao
Geo. Little.
Raleigh.
North Carolina.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3 d of March 1843, granting pensions, for one year to certain widows, who have received pensions under the act of the 7 th July 1838. —
State of North Carolina } Wayne County } S.S.
On this 22 nd day of September 1843 personally appeared before the Subscribers one of the Justices of the Peace in and after the county aforesaid W m Cherry Higgs a resident of the County of Wayne & State aforesaid aged years, who being first duly sworn according to oath on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the 3 d day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War —
That she is the widow of John Higgs deceased who was a private of Militia during the Revolutionary War

and received up to the time of his death (which has been already made to appear), the sum of thirty dollars and seventy one cents, as a pension for his services as aforesaid. - That she has received a pension of thirty dollars and seventy one cents per annum under the act of the 5th July 1838. - And she further declares, that she is still a widow. - Chas. J. Briggs
Cherry in Higgs mark
Shawn to and submitted on the day and year above written before me
Mike Hastings A.P.
State of North Carolina Wayne County
I hereby certify I am personally acquainted with Mrs Cherry Wiggins as above, that she is the widow of Mr Wiggins and who was a pensioner of the United States, and that Mrs Wiggins who is now applying for a pension, has received a pension under the act of the 3rd March 1838 - In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand this the 22 nd day of Septm 1843 - J. D. Seal
Apr 1843 - like Has lungs J.P. Seal

State of North Carolina Wayne County
I John A. Green clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Wayne County do hereby certify that Wilie Hastings is a Justice of the peace in and for said County & that the signature purporting to be his is genuine -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said office the 22 nd day of September A.D. 1843.
John A. Green Clerk.

Mar 26
16275 J. Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D. C.
FREE
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington.
Am. ? Mar 30 '36.
John Nance

Junior Office
New Mobile March 26 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I have duly received your
Letter of 18 th instant & note in context. Enclosed is the voucher alluded to. "John Wright" June 29 - Oct 35. returned for non-compliance in copy of Junior Correspondence & Originals
respectfully Yours. O. S. [?]
J. M. [?]

Admit or purchase Exp 5 mo. + 14 days 18 21 Cash 3 ————— 12 30
$ 30 71
16 66 1 57 8 21

Wagnersboro. May 1833
Sir, I herewith enclose the papers relating to the claim of Mo. Wiggs for a pension having, as I hope, satisfactorily explained in my affidavit the mystery of Tennyson's certificate. ~
Though it is certainly not "in accordance with the common rules of legal proceeding that a man should make out his own case by impeaching his own witness" it was certainly in accordance with the regulations of the Department in the matter of Pensions to produce the living witness if there be any; without providing for the distressing case of a witness who has fallen from his high estate in fighting, the Battle of his country to the low vocation calling of stealing & hogs - This being a casus omisus in the Instructions of the Department, I disposed of the difficulty, as I thought, in the most eligible way, regarding left the rules of legal proceeding, that the Instructions of the Department. ~
I hope, Sir, that your action in the premises, if adverse, may not be final ; but that the applicant may be allowed to prepare his papers anew. He is a worthy old man, and I think clearly entitled. and it would be a matter of regret should he fail in his claim, for a mistake of his agent, in the choice of the set of rules by which to be governed ~
J. S. Dward Esq. }
I am very respectfully Your Ob t Servt A. M. Austin

Payments to be made at Fayetteville by the Presd: U.S. Br: Bank. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of North car:
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 6. Page 59 by Wm Miller Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Wiggs of the State of North Carolina who was a private of infantry and cavalry in the war of the revolution is entitled to receive — Thirty — dollars and Seventy one cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 22 d day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
J. P. Kennedy acting Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4398
Cherry Wiggs Wid.
John Wiggs Coupl. N.R. line
Act: Noch. 3 1/2/43
Index:—Vol. M , Page 338
[Arrangement of 1870.]

7528.
North Carolina
Cherry Wiggins widow of Wm Wiggins
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 30th Nov r 1841 of Weymouth in the State of N. Carolina who was a Private in the Company, commanded by Captain _____ the Regt commanded by Col. W. W. W. in the N. Carolina line for 8 Mo & 14 day.
Ref Aug 21
Inscribed on the Roll of N. C. at the rate of 30 Dollars & 71 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of August, 1841 and sent to Rich d Randolph Present.
Whole amount due . . . . . $158 55
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thomas Lumpkin, Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2 Page 190.

State of North Carolina } Superior Court of Law County of Wayne } Spring Term 1833
Personally appeared before me John R Dounell Judge of the Superior Court for said County John Wynn who being duly sworn deposes and saith in amendment of his Declaration &c being date first day of October 1832
That the time when he entered the service of the U States his first term as stated in his said Declaration herewith attached was according to the best of his recollection in the Spring of 1779 at which he served in his term at least five months and two weeks
That his second term of service as stated in his aforesaid Declaration commenced late in the Winter of 1780 or early in the Spring of 1781 This he states in correction of his Declaration stating it to have commenced in 1779 or 1780 as the result of his better reflections. In his second term of service he remembers that Captain Boon commanded his company - his Lieutenant was Arthur Jennings his Colonel was Benj. Exum.
That the date of his third term of service as stated in his said Declaration was in March 1781. Benjamin Exum was his Colonel
That he has no documentary evidence of his said services - and knows of no person by whom he can prove his actual service but Etheldred Jen- gan whose certificate was attached to his said Decla- ration - Declarant procured said Jennings certificate

because he could not safely swear that there was no person living by whom he could prove his said service while said Loringan was living or said Loringan having actually been with him in the two terms to which he has certified - but this affiant cannot in good faith ask of said Court a certificate of the "credibility of the witness" as required in the regulations of the War Department. - He therefore waives his testimony (though true) - and depends on the traditional evidence produced in his said Declaration - hoping that the faults of the witness may not affect the claim of the Applicant who felt himself obliged to produce him.
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court the day and date above written - John his  Leigh mark
N. Washington Clk

State of South Carolina } County of Wayne }
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace, J. H. Husted who being duly sworn deposited and said that as agent and attorney for Mrs. Wiggs he drew up the above Declaration and the certificate attached - That the certificate signed by Edmund Lerigan was sworn to by him as this affiant then believed in conformity with the instructions from the War Department requiring, in substance, witnesses to actual service, if he - that said Lerigan  such witness as this affiant had been informed by said Wiggs, and believed - but said Lerigan Wiggs  became infamous in consequence having been convicted and punished for Larceny, he was not offered to the Court as a credible witness - nor was his credibility in any way attempted to be estab- lished before said Court - The said certificate was placed among the proofs - simply because this affiant believed, and so advised the Applicant, that the Regu- lations required it without proofing or in any way providing for the case like the present when the witness to actual service had become infamous. - This affiant advised the Applicant to procure other proofs - so that the certificate of Lerigan might be dispensed with - since if it might stand there for salute animae of said Wiggs, who could not with safe con- science make  swear that no one knew of his service - Accordingly other such proofs were made as in the opinion of the affiant would warrant the Department to allow his claim, if the certificate of Lerigan were stricken out. This affiant hopes that his scrupulousness will not prejudice the claim of said Wiggs - avering that if there is any thing objectionable in the course herein pursued, the fault lies with this affiant who advised it, and not with Mr. Wiggs the App- licant - Sworn to this 20th day of May 1862
J. H. Husted
James Griswold

State of North Carolina } County of Wayne }
I Philip Hooks Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Daniel Preston Esquire whose name and seal are attached to the preceding affidavit of St W Justice was at the time of signing and subscribing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and that by the Laws of said State he is quali- fied to administer oaths - and that due faith and credit are to be given to his official acts - and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature - In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and seal of office this 21 st day of May 1833.
P. Hooks Clerk
John Mess