Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11102, William Walter, Res. Illinois

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Walter, William Nancy
R. 11102
CONTENTS
Res. - Illinois

No
Nancy Walter, as
Mrs William,
Illinois.
July 7 1838.
Richd. Dabney Nance Vernon, Illinois.

State of Illinois } Jefferson County } ss,
page 1
On this 14 th day of march 1855. personally appeared before the under signed, a Justice of the peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes within and for said County Sarah Webb, a resident citizen, of said County aged fifty eight years the 16 th day of march 1855, and being one of the children and heirs at Law of William Walter, and Nancy Walter, who was the wife of said William Walter, and only wife he ever had. She said Nancy Walter, whose maiden name was Black She being for a long time a widow, the widow, of said William Walter, and never having married after the death, of her said husband, and dying his widow, and the said William Walter having been a soldier of the United States in the war of the Revolution, and in behalf of the United States, against the com- mon enemies of her liberties: and strug- gled for liberty in said War with the British crown, opposing their usurpation. She makes this declaration in order ob-

I am the benefit of the acts of — congress, passed for the widows of the soldiers of the war of the Revolution who were married to said soldiers after the last period of their said service and and whose marriages took place before the first of January 1794, she as one of the children of said deceased widow, makes this Declaration, for her- self, and for the coheirs of said widow to wit, the said Nancy Walter, in order to obtain all the money due said wid- ow, under the act, of 1838 and other acts extending the Pension still further and all acts which the facts of the case will be found to be applicable to the facts she claims this Declaration as coming under it, to be made part of this Declaration as much so, as if the acts or acts were herein specially set forth or recited, and she for herself and the coheirs of said Nancy Walter, de- ceased on oath she makes this de- claration, in order to obtain all the pension due her at the time of her death, and being such as she

might have received in her life, if 3. her claims had been clearly shown prosecuted and established.
As respects the service of her said father William Walter, she relies on the rolls of the department of war, and such incidental records of pay and the like as may be found in support of the facts of service, identity and the like, and prays for a full search and prays the records made a part of this Declaration,
Declarant set forth that it was her father's account, that his father was regular soldier enlisted in the war of the Revolution of the continental line, his name being Robert Walter under an engagement for years, or may be for during the war, that he was a man of years, and a family in time of said war, having a family, wife and chil- dren, and a son, William Walter, grown up to youthful manhood, at some period before the war ended and some years before it ended, and that while said Robert was in said service that the Tories came to the house of said Robert, and bore off William, his son,

4.
That he said William, Declarant's father was carried with other prisoners of the kind to Novaseotia , and there was liberated by another man being taken in his place, Said William then sought his father who was in service, went to him served with him becoming a soldier with his father, served some years in the same Regiment and was honorably discharged with him, for time and place reference to the Rolls is hereby sought, that she believes that their service was till the close of the war or nearly so, that Declarant's father and, his father, Robert both had certificates of discharge as she has always heard understood and believes having no doubt thereof
as she recollects that it was understood from her father and other consistent accounts, that col Preston of Washington County Virginia, for some purpose had said William Walter's discharge, and was talking of giving him said William Walter a Pension, or some pay from the united States for his Revolutionary

service, and col Preston's house 5 being burnt down by some mis- hap, the discharge was burnt. Declarant's father lived in the vicinity of Col. Preston, in Washing- ton County Virginia, and years after- ward Declarant's father while liv- -ing in Maury County Tennessee, he procured an affidavit, or cer- tificate of the way his original was destroyed and this he done prepar- atory to an application to get a Pension, James K Polk, having prom- ised to aid in getting a Pension, and was in the way of ascertain- ing by promise, as to getting the ac- counts, of the facts preparatory to the making a Declaration, and on his arrival home to Tennessee from ser- vice in congress, said William the said soldier died having contemplated going to Columbia to court, to have his papers prepared by Polk, but died before the time set to go to the court; She Declarant supposes and in fact understands that no appli- cation ever was made for the Pen- sion accruing to her mother for the Pension due her mother for

the service of her husband the said William Walter, That said Walter, the said soldier died in Mary County Tennessee on Duck river, died on the 13th day of February - 1829, with a complaint of his head, his wife Nacy Walter remained his widow widow till she died in Alala County State of Mississippi on the 11th day of May 1854, of Diarrhea, living to a great age, she makes the letter from Thomas B Walter her son, Declarant, Brother apart of this Declaration, mark — (T. B. W.,) apart of this Dec- laration, his name being in full Thomas Black Walter his middle name being mother, maiden name Black ,
There was only five children of mothers, ever raised so as to be grown To wit, Declarant, Robert M Walter Thomas B Walter, and Hiram Alexander Walter, and Mary

Walter who married William Stephens and died leaving one only child a daughter, who married a man named a man named Stephens she is probably living,
so that
 1 Sarah Webb, who now declares  2 Robert M Walter } 3  3 Thomas B Walter, } 3  4 William A Walter, } 3  5 Melind Stephens, } 3 
Are the children and only children and heirs of Nancy Walter deceased the widow of the said soldier,
Declarant, said father the soldier was born August 12th (1761,) one thousand seven hundred and sixty one, and was married to Nancy Black in Rowan County North Carolina on the 25th day of march (1788,) (one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight) by Colen Campbell a Justice of the peace, the Record of said soldiers age his marriage

6 appears to be set down years past and is certainly true and as to me declarants opinion is in his her fathers own hand write, only it her now opinion that the Record of the marriage was said to be the hand writing of the Justice of the peace who married them the papers herewith filed. W W, X N, B, cut out of an old Presbyterian confession of faith. Printed in Edinburgh in Scotland was Declarants fathers Book he was of the Presbyterian Church, and so was his said wife, and widow, and appears to have been printed in Edinburgh in 1793, the Book has been in Declarants possession ever since or shortly after the death of her father, and the Record is certainly true and without erasure or any alteration,
She has no other documentary evidence of the service or the matter knows not who his officers were she has some impression that he may have been of the virginia line

or served with the Virginia Troops as her father was accus- tomed to talk of the Virginia Blues he may have been of that line she prays a search for Joshua Barrett of this County Jefferson, in Illinois, had been talk- ing some years before he died of preparing a Declaration from Declarants history of the case and sending it to Mississippi for her said widow to be sworn to to obtain her Pension, but he having died without effecting it, she being now dead Declarant, would prose- cute the claim for herself and the other children and place herself under obligation, as special ad- ministratrix to draw the Pension or her part, or as Law and propri- ety may and does suggest the declarant would further state that said Barrett of this vicinity wrote as he said to Declarants brother Brother in Mississippi where to said widow lived and

10. She died for his, and her con- currence, for him Barrett to act as her agent to get her Pension but as Barrett, said her said son wrote to Barrett, that the old woman could live without it and gave him no encourage- ment to apply for it,
This declarant also believes is true;
Declarant was born in Spedell County North Carolina, and lived there with her father untill about the year 1796, or 1797, and her father her mother and family moved to Washington County Virginia, near Abingdon, near col Preston, and continued to live there till about the close of the war of 1812, and moved to Maury County Tennessee about 1814 or 1815, continued there till he died in 1829,
Declarant would suggest that her father William Walter may have served in the 71 st Regiment in the Revolution as it seems now

to her that he was accustomed to speak of that Regiment V6 She knows of no certain chance or evidence to prove his service but relies on the Records of the events of that day for proof of the same Sarah her Webb mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14 th March 1855 A.D. Ets CJP
State of Illinois } Jefferson County } ss
On this 14 th day of March 1855, personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for said County Sam Mc Walter and Susanna Lahrider
to me well known their statements being entitled to full credit, and on oath state that they are well acquainted with the foregoing Declarant, Sarah Webb, that they know she is the character and person she represents herself to be, and that for an acquaintance with the Walter family, and the general tradition of the family and others that they believe that William Walter

12. Walter the deceased father of Declarant, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and we believe the foregoing Declaration is substantially true.
James M. Walter
Lucinda Chandler
Sworn to and subscribe before me this 14 th March 1855
A. D. Estes (J.P.)
State of Illinois } Jefferson County } ss
I Alsalom D. Estes Justice of the peace in and for said county certify that that I have considerable acquaintance with the foregoing Declarant and with some of the said Walter family refer to in Sarah Webb's foregoing Declaration, and that it seems to be the traditional account of the family and consistent account that William Walter the father of said Salah that William Walter her father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war

and I believe the foregoing Declaration 13 is substantially true.
Given under my hand and seal this 14th day of March 1855
Abraham D. Estes Esq.
State of Illinois } Jefferson County } ss
I J. F. Watson clerk of the county court of said county certify that Abraham D. Estes Esq. whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing pro- ceedings, was at the time of signing the same Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Mount Vernon this 14 th day of March A D 1855.
J. F. Watson Clerk.

Stalla Co State of Miss
March 27 1852.
Dear Sister your favor of Janu ry 11 th come safely to hand and the contents duly ap pr eciated we were glad to hear that you was all well at that time with a fond hope that these lines will find you in enjoy ing the same blessings of health as all well at this time and have noth ing ing to write of importance have not heard from Simeon yet tell Walter that I have been to Arkansas to look at it and like it very much there is do noted land there for velveters act lers says 1 quarter section to each member of family I would advise James Manton to go there this fall and take the land while it is to be had I would pay for him to go to Pointset Co as I know that there is plenty of the damaged Land there that is good, mothers health is very good considering her age and joins in sending her love to you - on my return from Arkansas last December I called to see Melinda Stevens she is living in Marsal Co in this state and would be glad to receive a line from you all your cal s Skinner heir at the Scripps 1 Fayette Co Miss he returned from California in fine health Robert is married again and was in bad health when we heard from him last we have 8 children in line ing and 2 Dads we have had the coldest winter that we ever saw in Miss Miss expect to move to

if there is any thing further make it none in your next & will come to a close at this time tell Martha Arden on your self as soon as you receive these lines S.B. Wallen to his sister and James Marlon his nephew

July 4 1857
Brownsville Prairie Co Ark
Dear sister it is want
more that I am want more for mutal right to you and with sorrow I have to inform you that our beloved Mother is now more She departed this life May 11 lowest at Napoleon on the Miss River. I had moved last winter to St. Pines and be leaving the road to her for more of her age I left her in till May and returned after her thinking that it would be best to bring her by water I found her were much reduced when I returned we started and she was taken a bout 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning with the dire or running of the bowels and did that with a bout 9 o'clock and is here in the heaven's ground at the a house man's place after she was fast speaking gasped her if she felt that all was well to raise her hand and she raised she raised that hand that was then as cold as it is now. I have no doubt that she is gone to that land of rest and will meet with our Father that is gone before, let us try to get to the same good by land, to the a here subject when things of the travel the hardships that she has went thru to raise us I feel that I were as good to her as I able to have her than if she is now happy and all will be well, I am now well pleased with this country, our crops is very sorry.

in consequence of an over wet spring and from an over drive summer we are from suffer- ing very much for the want of rain Crops is said to be sooner this year than they have ever been known, I saw Simon last winter and he was well and said that he would be at my house, and to see you if you have an over spenders with him right to him and tell him to be sure to come by my house as mother wished you to have them things it would be a good chance to send them to you my self and family is in good health hoping that these few lines will find you all in like state of health till you are all here to night to morrow as soon as this comes to hand your Brother can tell eth The B Walter to his sister Sarah Welch

State of Illinois } Jefferson county } ss
on this 26 th day of September 1855, personally appeared before me Absalom D. Estes one of the associate Justices of the county court of Jefferson county State of Illinois,
Edmund G. Kington Esq a resident citizen of Marion county Illinois with whom I have been well acquainted for some years, his statements being entitled to full credit, and on his oath states he has been intimately Sarah Webb, of Jefferson county Illi- nois, some near thirteen years, and with the family tradition of Said Sarah, as being the daughter of Nancy Walter of the State of Mississippi, and her mother Nancy being as all con- sistent report seemed to be, and to my full satisfaction; was the widow of a man named William Walter, Said William Walter, as report seemed to be was a revolu- tionary soldier, the consistent report I have heard from Said Sarah Webb and others being so uniformly consist- ent, the affiant has never doubted the facts as related by her and others, all

tending to the Establishment of the fact that she said Sarah, Webb, was one of the children of said Soldier, and that Nancy Walter of Mississippi was the wife and for a great many years, the widow of said Soldier,
and from the character of said Sarah Webb, she being of good character, a pious Presbyterian, and seems so raised and brought up, The affiant, would believes all she would state on oath, or otherwise to be the fact,
affiant would further state that said Sarah Webb, having previously talked with affiant, about James K. Polk, having been to some extent engaged in getting a Pension, for William Walter the father of Mrs Sarah Webb for his Revolutionary Service, affiant was induced to talk with James K. Polk, as to his acts in the matter, which should have taken, place just a short time before the Soldiers death, the conversation between affiant and said Polk, took place at Gamestown in Tennessee and when he Polk, and

and Governor Jones, was canvassing for Governor, and affiants now thinks it was in the year 1843,
affiant can not say what was the precise words of Polk in answer to affiants enquiry of him in relation to attending in trying to fix and get a Pension for said William Walter, But Polks words, were about, to this effect;
He perhaps had a mere ducining recollection of it, but from the great length of time, he did not know enough to say any thing certain about what he had done in the matter;
Affiant from Mrs Sarah Webb's consistent statements, often made and so consistent, affiant could not doubt the Justice of her claim, from her own statements.
Edmund G. Rington
Sworn to and subscribed } this 26th day of September }
before me
A. D. Estes
E. G. R.

State of Illinois } Jefferson County } ss
On this 26 th day of September 1855, personally appeared before me one of the associate Justices of the county court of Jefferson County State of Illinois James M Walter, a resident citizen of said county aged Twenty nine years to me well known, his statements being entitled to full credit, and on his oath states as follows to wit,
That from his earliest recollection, he has a knowledge, that William Walter, the father of Sarah Webb, and and husband of Nancy widow of said William Walter who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, (as tradition was), that said soldier, had three children of their first being quite infant,
and Mary Walter 4 th child, married Stephens and Sarah Webb, who has made a declaration for her mother's Pension, and Robert M Walter, and Thomas B Walter and Wiram A Walter, was their only children, of said William Walter, as is certainly the fact from undoubted accounts always known to affiant from his earliest knowledge of the family

Mary Stephens is undoubtedly dead and she had one child only to wit, Melinda;
Sworn to and subscribed } the day and above } written before me } A. D. Estes C. J. P.
Danvers. H. Walter
I A. D. Estes associate Justice of the county court of Jefferson county State of Illinois certify that a Declaration of Sarah Webb, of my intimate ac- quaintance a great many years, claim- ing a Pension, in right of herself and the other children, of Nancy Walter who was for a great many years the widow of William Walter, and as all tradi- tion leaves no doubt with me was a Regular soldier of the Revolutionary war the Declaration of said Sarah Webb one of the children, of the soldier, she Mrs Webb was unable to attend court when she made her Declaration, last Spring before me she lives, and then lived near me all her accounts of the family is no doubt true, I am well ac- quainted with her and the history of her family, Given under my hand this 27 th day of September, 1855. A. D. Estes C. J. P.

State of Illinois } Jefferson County } ss }
I clerk of the county court of Jefferson County aforesaid, which is a court of Record, certify that Absalom D. Estes, Esq. whose genuine signatures are to the foregoing affidavits, and certificate was at the time of signing the same one of the associate and assistant Judges thereof, duly commissioned and qualified, as such,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this                    day of September 1855.
State of Illinois } Jefferson County } I Joel P. Watson Clerk of the County Court in and for said County certify that Absalom D. Estes whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing Affidavits and Certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace within and for said County, legally elected commissioned and qualified to office.
Given under hand of said court on the 26 th day of September A.D. 1855
J. P. Watson Clerk,

A SOLEMN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF P U B L I C K   S I N S AND BREACHES OF THE COVENANT; AND A SOLEMN ENGAGEMENT TO ALL THE DUTIES CONTAINED THEREIN; NAMELY,
Those which do in a more special Way relate unto the Dangers of these Times.
TOGETHER WITH
The Act of the Commission of the General Assembly 1648, and Act of Parliament 1649, for renewing the League and Covenant.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His Majesty's Printers. MDCCXCIIL

W m Walter Son of Robt. and Jane Walter his wife was born on August 12 th 1761
W m Walter his brother and son Octo. 1826
1761 65
(W.W. & N.B.)
Family Record A.D. Estab 6875

THE LARGER CATECHISM, AGREED UPON BY THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES AT WESTMINSTER, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF COMMISSIONERS FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND,
As A Part of the Covenanted Uniformity in Religion be- twixt the Churches of CHRIST in the Kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland.
AND
Approved Anno 1648 by the General Assembly of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND, to be a Directory for Catechising such as have made some Proficiency in the Knowledge of the Grounds of Religion.
WITH THE PROOFS FROM THE SCRIPTURE.
EDINBURGH: Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His Majesty's Printers. MDCCXCI.

William Wallach and a fancy black was steered on the way which by the way of our road 8750
A D 1/2 1/2

THE SHORTER CATECHISM,
AGREED UPON BY THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES
AT
WESTMINSTER,
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
COMMISSIONERS
FROM THE
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND,
AS
A Part of the Covenanted Uniformity in Religion betwixt the Churches of Christ in the Kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland.
AND
Approved Anno 1648, by the General Assembly of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND, to be a Directory for Catechising such as are of weaker Capacity.
WITH THE
PROOFS FROM THE SCRIPTURE.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His Majesty's Printers. MDCCXCIIL

Mary Walter Born November 25. 1792
Sarah Walter Born March 16 th 1796
Robert M Walter Born Jan y 19 th 1799
Thos B Walter Born July 25 th  1802 1802
Hiram A Walter Born March 30 30 1805
A D Estes 68 p

William Walter, served in the Revolutionary War married Nancy Black, in Rowan county N.C. in 1778, by Campbell, I.P. Said soldier died in Tennessee in 1829
His widow, Nancy remained his widow till 1854 died in Mississippi State Surviving children of Said Nancy or him
Mary Stephens Sarah Webb, Robert M. Walter Thos B. Walter Wiram A. Walter,
I have made out the names of the children from memory, which I think is correct,
the first Declaration made before Ester, county Judge, or Justice.
your letter to me of the 8th of may last will, Identify the case
I hope you will assume here, as I will give the case my prompt atten- tion
St R A Dalbey

11.10.2
P. O. Nancy Walter
Service: Mississippi  7th  Inf
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract

No. 15. 354. Nancy Walter dec. Widow of William Illinois
P. A. Dabney May 8/1855
Same October 11/1855
Same Jan'y 30/56
Same March 1/56
11102
July 7/1838

State of Illinois, Jefferson county ss Circuit Court for Said County
September October Term of said Court 1855.
On this 25 th day of September 1855, personally appeared in open court, now sitting, Sarah Webb, a resident, of Jefferson county State of Illinois and after being duly sworn according to law on her oath makes the Declaration, that she is, the Identical Sarah Webb, who heretofore made a Declaration, in said County claiming for herself and the other surviving children of her deceased father and mother, to wit of William Walter and Nancy Walter accruing and resulting to said children, from the service of said William Walter in the Revolutionary war, and in right of his wife Nancy Walter under and by virtue of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838, and the subsequent acts of Congress further extending the time of said Pensioners pensions; which Declaration now on file in the Pension office, and sworn

to, after being subscribed by her, was sworn to before Absolum D. Estes, Esqr who is and was an official Justice as therein set forth, she makes said Declaration a part of this Declaration, she states said Declaration was in all things true, and made out under her immediate inspection and control at her own house, and the family Record accompanying the same, was taken from her Book, which is now in her possession, and in all things her Declaration was made out to the best of her recollection truly, she prays the rolls of the service of said William Walter, and the family Record, of the ages of said William Walter, and his wife Nancy Walter whose maiden name was Black as set forth in the Records as on file made a part of this Declaration, and all considered of together as one entire Declaration,
She would states that the Declaration now on file contains the best evidence that she knows of being in her power, of the service she relies on the Rolls and Records of the events of the day; and of the ages and the marriage of her.

father and mother to wit, William Walter and Nancy Black, she relies on the family Record, on file, filed with and made a Part of said first Declaration; for the death of her father and the death of her mother, she would refer to said Record and the letter of the time of her death, she further states that some years past and before James K. Polk was President of the United States that she (this Declarant) conversed with Edmund G. Kingdon, of Illinois, who formerly was of Tennessee State in Relation to said William Walter's claim, and his fixing papers for said soldier preparatory to get the Pension but said soldier died just about the time set to do the business, and before it could be completed;
Said soldier died in the state of Tennessee in the edge of Bedford County on the 13th day of February 1829. His widow the said Nancy Walter, lived and remained his widow intill the day of may 1854 as well as now residing and died in the state of Mississippi, but in all thing touching all the facts she relies most fully on that

which is filed with her Declaration and the Declaration as that was accompanied with and made out by the Record of ages and letters and times of ages, marriage and deaths of her said father and mother.
The Declarant having sent all her records touching the case to the Pension office. She has nothing now to refresh her memory by except, her Recollection.
As Respects the Service of said William Water, she Judges, his named Service will appear enrolled with Robert Walter his father.
Declarant knows nothing as to the officers he served under other than as set forth in her Declaration now in file! She thinks it may be, and likely was he was of the Virginia Blues, as she recollects his talking much of them, and he was taken Prisoner, by the Tories and sold to the British, and afterward, and being released from the British by change and swap, and then after the change and swap Enlisted with his the Sol.

- Father in the United States service, he was taken prisoner at home working at a tan trough fixing hides to tan, for the use of the family, when the Tories came and took him,
Declarant's mother was never married but but one time and died the widow of said William Walter the said Revolutionary soldier,
Declarant states that when she prepared her Declaration now in file in the Pension, which she now makes a part of this she was wholly unable to attend court, having a considerable spell of sickness which included that time she was unable for any active or laborious pursuit,
She asks the constituted authority to consider the family Records as satisfactory of the marriage of her father and mother to wit (William Walter & Nancy Black), as the chances of getting any official Record from North Carolina, is at least distant and remote and may most likely not to be had,
Witness R F Wingate John S. Bryan
Sarah her Webb mark

State of Illinois Jefferson County 3 55
I, John S. Bogan Clerk of the Circuit Court, in and for the County and State aforesaid, certify the foregoing Declara- tion relating to a Revolutionary Pension was duly sworn to and subscribed in court in open session Judge Edwin Beecher presiding Judge, duly commissioned, and assigned to hold said court for said County;
Given under my hand and seal of Office in open court now sitting for said City at the courthouse in Mount Vernon, in said County this 25 th day of September A.D. 1855. John S. Bogan Clerk C.C.
Mount Vernon Jefferson County State of Illinois.
I, Edwin Beecher Judge of the 12 th Judicial District, of the circuit Courts of Law and Equity for the State of Illinois certify that John S. Bogan, whose certificate and seal of office attests the foregoing Declara-

I am clerk of the circuit court of law and Equity for Jefferson County State of Illinois, and his foregoing certificate afore is in due form of Law
Given under my hand in open court This 25th day of September 1855.
Edwin Beecher

Freemount, Missouri
Cedar county
January 8th 1856.
The Hon
Commissioner of Pensions. Pension Office Washington D. C.
Having been employed in the prosecution of the claim of Sarah Webb, of Jefferson County Illinois, near Mount Vernon, to a Pension resulting to her and the other children of her mother Nancy Walker, as a Pension for the service of said Nancy's husband William Walker in the Revolutionary war, the original Declaration and evidence is now on file in your office , also a Declaration made in open court made Jefferson County Illinois in Mount Vernon before Judge Beech, Circuit court, made in open court, at your suggestion to me, in your letter to me of the 8th of May 1855, directed to

me at Mont Vernon Illinois, I forwarded the Declaration to you in October last, requesting your examination of all the case and an answer to it at Griswald Illinois Hamilton Co as it is my duty to give my best attention to said claim, and as I will necessarily be here until I hear from you respecting the claim I hope you may find it proper on the receipt of these lines to refer to the case and send me an answer here directed to me at Freemont Mo Cedar County ; giving an answer what you may have answered (if you have answered since the Declaration in open court, that I may fully comply with my promise to those interested in the claim, I hope you will refer to the case and answer me here;
I will enclose herein a memorandum, made to enable you to refer to the case
your obt servat Robert A. Dade

Mount Carmel Illinois March 1855.
The hon, J P. Waldo commissioner of Pensions, Office of the Interior Washington city D. C.
I Enclose to you in this letter the Declaration of Sarah Webb, one of the children of Nancy Walter, deceased, in order to obtain the amount of Pension that should accrue to the children and heirs of said Nancy in right of her deceased husband William Walter of the Revolutionary war, I have to request that you will file the Declaration and accompanying papers in your office and examine the the case and report to me at this office the result of your examination of the same as full an examination of the

Rolls, as you may have right to extend to such claims is humbly sought in behalf of the claim by me in behalf of the heirs In their behalf, I am your humble servant,
Robert A Dabney

Mont Vernon
Jefferson County Ills
Sept 26th 1855.
The hon.
commissioner of Pensions,
Office of the Interior
Washington City D.C.
I herein enclose to you the Declaration of Mrs Sarah Webb, of this county, claiming a Revolution Pension Resulting to her and the other children of her deceased mother Nancy Walter, deceased as a Pension due her at the death Said Nancy as being the widow, of William Walter, a deceased Soldier of the Revolutionary war, and died in the State of Tennessee in the year 1829, and Said widow died in the State of Mississippi in 1854.
I hope you will file the enclosed Declaration with the original Declaration in the case now on file, the affidavits of Ed G King, and James M. Walter are herein enclosed,
after your examination of all the papers in the case, I hope you will report to me at, (Griswold P.O. in Hamilton County Illinois) as I live near there
In behalf of the children of Said Nancy Walter decd, I am your humble Servant,
Robert A Dabney

Freemont, MO Cedar County, 1856.
The hon, Commission of Pensions, office of the Interior Washington D.C.
Having forwarded to your office the Declarations of Mrs Sarah Webb, of Jefferson County Illinois, claiming as one of the heirs of Nancy Walter the Pensions under the act of July the 7 th 1838, and the extension thereof by subsequent acts, due at her death, as the widow of William Walter, a Soldier of the Revolutionary war,
and after having sent to you the said first Declaration, from Mount Vernon Ills. the Declaration, being made out of court, and on the suggestion of your office through the hon. L. P. Waldo, comr, I sent to your office her second Declaration, made in open court;
Now I wish to state that I am necessarily absent from Illinois but will give said matter my best attention. I therefore have to request that on the receipt of this letter, that you will answer me here at this place touching your action and decision and though you may sent me an answer to Illinois, as my request was on sending

you the last Declaration, I hope you will, find it proper to answer me here,
Your attention to the affairs of this letter, might enable me to give hasty satisfaction to Mrs Webb and all concerned
In behalf those concerned I am most Respectfully
yours &c
Robert A Dabney