Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6352, for John Linder, North Carolina

SERVICE
N. 6
Linder, John Jane
NUMBER
R. 6352
CONTENTS

Jane Linder widow of Declaration
Mr J. Moore Supt of the Military Pensions
Giorgi On this the tenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Your personally appeared before me Edward H. Smith an acting Justice of the Superior Court of said County - the same being a court of record Jane Linder who by reason of advanced age and bodily infirmity is unable to appear before a court of record aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration - That she is the widow of John Linder who was a private in Captain Owens company of Infantry in the war with Great Britain familiarly known as the Revolutionary war - that her said husband was transported as a prisoner of war captured in Wachenheim County North Carolina on or about the Fourteenth day of July Seventeen Hundred and Seventy nine and continued in actual service in said war for the period of about three years she thinks she recollects, his mentioning his presence at the capture of the British General Cornwallis at York Town Virginia but does not now recollect the names of the field or company officers under whom he served other than Captain Owens - that at the close of the war her said husband was honorably discharged that she has seen his written discharge does not recollect its date or by whom it was signed does not know whatever became of it - or if in existence at all where she could find it presumes it has been lost or destroyed - and that her said husband remained in service until the close of the war she further declares that she was married to the said John Linder

in Rockingham County State of North Carolina on or about the fourth day of February Seventeen Hundred and Thirty Three that her maiden name was Jane Wright that the marriage ceremony was performed by a Mr Bell a justice of the peace and the license issued by Peter Watson that her said husband John Linder died in January A D Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Four and she declarant has remained single and unmarried ever since and is now said John Linder's widow that she removed from the Spartanburg District South Carolina where her said husband died the in November A D 1848 to Whitfield County Georgia where she now resides - She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining all arrears of Pension to which her said husband may have been entitled at the date of his decease and all arrears of half and full Pensions to which she may be entitled under the various acts of Congress and for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress entitled an act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution Approved February 2 nd 1848. She further states that neither her or her said husband ever received any pension
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written
Jane her Linder mark
And I hereby Certify that I believe the said Jane Linder to be the identical person represented and that she is by reason of advanced age and bodily infirmity unable to appear before a Court of Record to make her declaration -
Edward H. Edwards J.P.

Proof of death married
Deafies I Before me Edw. H. Edwards an Whitfield County Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County personally came Samuel Linder and Anna Linder both residents of the County and and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that they know the foregoing declarant Jane Linder and that she is the identical person represented and that they knew her said husband John Linder and that said John Linder was always respected and esteemed in the neighborhood in which he lived to be Revolutionary soldier that he often spoke of Revolutionary scenes in which he participated That said John Linder and the foregoing declarant Jane Linder lived together as husband and wife and were so esteemed and respected And that the said John Linder died in Spartanburg District State of South Carolina in the month of January A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Four leaving declarant Jane Linder his surviving widow and that said Jane is still his widow and the aforesaid Samuel Linder says that he was present when John Linder died and deponent Anna Linder says she was not present when he died but was present at the sale of his effects by his executor and deponent Samuel Linder says that he is aged about forty nine years and said Anna that she is aged about forty four years and they both depose and say that they are not interested in said claim
Samuel Linder Anna Linder
Sworn to and subscribed before me this August 10 th 1854 and I hereby certify that I know deponents believe them to be the age represented and that they are credible witnesses
Edward H. Edwards J.P.

State of Georgia } I Britton & Taylor Clerk of the Whitfield County } Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Edward Mc Edwards whose Official signature is subscribed to the foregoing declaration of Jane Leinder and to the foregoing affidavit of Samuel Leinder & Anna Leinder is and was at the time of his subscribing the same to both said affidavits a Justice of the Infer- ior Court in and for said County duly com- missioned and qualified and that said Court is a court of Record having a Clerk and seal and that full faith and credit should be given to his Official attestation as such and that his signature to both the foregoing affidavits is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this tenth day of August 1854
B. Taylor Clerk
Dalton Ga Aug 10 th 1854
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Please examine the enclosed claim to arrearages of Pension and Life Pension made by Jane Leinder surviving widow of John Leinder Revolutionary soldier under the various acts of Congress. I am fully confident she is the person represented. Your early attention will much oblige your humble servant to whom Please direct any communications in regard to this claim
Yours S. Moore
Dalton Whitfield Co. Ga.

State of North Carolina Comptroller's Office
I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of public accounts in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of Record in my Office among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military services in the Revolutionary War as follows, to wit:
"John Linder."
  Book C. No. entry 8337 £ 0. 12. 4. Specie   " " 5 Page 43 £ 9. 11. 2. Do "   " " 4 " 2 £ 3. 10. Do "   " " 7 " 5 £ 82. 11. 2 8 "   " C. No 13. Page 3 £ 10. 2. Do " 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Office this July 3 d .
1851
Wm. J. Clarke, Compt r .

We John Linder and Robert Hallaway both of The County of Rockingham and State of North Carolina do acknowledge ourselves our heirs &c. Justly Indebted to Richard Dobbs Speight Esq's Gov. H.C. or his successors in office in the Just and full sum of Fifty Pounds Current Money of said State, to be Void on Conditions that the said John Linder and Sam Right Inter-marry with each other as man and Wife, Agreeable to a License granted This date, As witness our hands and Seals this 4 th day of February 1793
Witness
P. Watson
John Linder (Seal)
R. Hallaway (Seal)
State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I William M. Ellington Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify That the foregoing is a full, true, and perfect transcript of Record of a Bond given by John Linder and Robt. Hallaway to obtain License for the Marriage of John Linder and Sam Right, and that there is no other record or evidence of said Marriage, it being the only record required by law to be kept of Marriages at the date of said Bond
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of our said Court, at office in Mountweth this 1 st day of August A.D. 1854
W. M. Ellington S.C.C.

Claim of Jane Conder for Reversionary Interest
Several shares of stock from Jane Conder to Mr. Conner 1811

Power of attorney
Mr Moore & Earnest
I know all men by these presents that Whitfield County, I, John Sinder
of the County of Whitfield, and State aforesaid for and in consideration of fifty percent upon the Annual recovered by them and for other their good causes in the premises moving do make constitute and appoint Laurence McCarroll of the County and State aforesaid and William H Moore of the same place my true and lawful attorneys for me and in my name to execute all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government upon which a Revolutionary Pension was granted to John Sinder or his wife on account of his services as a Private in the Revolutionary war and to obtain by all lawful means any and all moneys that may be due from the United States to the said John Sinder or his wife by virtue of said services as a Revolutionary soldier as aforesaid in the Company of Capt Owens in the Regiment
And for greater and sufficient assurance do hereby revoke and annul any and all other powers of attorney and authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes and do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my said attorneys Laurence Mc- Carroll and William H Moore with power in them to appoint such other attorneys under them for carrying out the above specified purposes

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28 day of Nov 1853
In the presence of Charles Keall
for Jane Sinder mark
Jane Sinder
State of Georgia } On this the Twentieth eighth day of County of Whitfield } November - in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and fifty Three personally appeared before me John Anderson - an acting justice of the peace - duly authorized to administer oaths and to take acknowledgements in and for the County aforesaid
Jane Sinder the above subscriber to the above and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and made oath in due form of law that she personally inter- -ested as Widow of John Lincoln in said claim and I further certify that the same personally known to me to be the identical individual represented
John Anderson J.P.

1888 Dec 12 Samuel Linder - No law existing to give him pension or arrears of pension Prior
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
6352.
REJECTED
P. O. _____
James Linder
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Cont

No 15. 201
Jane Linder widow of John.
Georgia
W. K. Moore Aug. 18 '54
Rev. A. R. Wright, Feb 17/58
" " " " May 27/59
Rev. J. N. A. Underwood Mar. 13/60
6352
July 7. 1838
1855 Jan. 16. Copies Sent to Hon S. C. Smith Rev J. H. Lucas & Rev 12 Feb 1857
Rev S. C. Smith - 168/357 Rev S. C. Smith - 168/358

Banks of Coos Canyon Near Rome Ga
May 20 1889
Hon George B Whiting
My Dear Sir
One of my constituents, who is poor & ignorant - but a very honest sort of a man, & though one too he specially looked after, is much exercised about a land warrant & pension, one, or perhaps both due (or already granted, but never received) to Jane Linder widow of John Linder for services in the war of 76. He does not remember the number of the claim. Will you do me the favor to write me the condition of the claim for land and also for the Pension. Yours truly. Augustus R Wright Rome. Ga.

January the 20th the 1889
White Field County I need your kind Letter to give me Full satisfaction as I was ignorant in the government laws concerning pension claims & that I am by pardon The reason I have not replied to you I have been down in state to write, I am suffering under haste disease it has taken it may my strength and all most my mind, I have all been ready to obey the laws of government and schools them and all so the that I am ready by over your father I find my mind so heavy and I must come to a close Sending you my best regards Samuel Linder

Dulton Ga Aug 11 th 1854
Dear Sir
If any may be wanting to perfect the claim please advise me as soon as practicable The Claimant desires to derive all the benefit she can under the various acts of Congress. Please advise me what she will be entitled to under all the acts By the Power of Attorney accompanying the papers you will see my authority to act Mr Earnest & myself being there appointed attys &c Please direct to
Wm H Moore
Dulton
Whitfield County
Georgia

Washington Dc Jan 4 1837.
Hon E A Waldo Care of Juniors
Sir.
I desire a Certified Copy of the papers in the case of Jane Linder - Widow of a Revolutionary Soldier in order that I may print them to Congress -
Respectfully, your obedient
J. A. Smith

Dalton Georgia Whitfield County November 15-1888 Dearest I was informed that the claimant of John Linder reminded that she was not the wife of that I desired John Linder that served in the United States War now say to you she was his lawful wife that John Linder that lived in the war between the states was my father and the claimant was my mother my father was born in pencil Virginia When he became free from his father he went into Rockingham County North Carolina and married his wife maiden name was Mary most of his children children by her when the United States War came up he has told me how long he served in the war but I have forgotten him I say he did not know his children When he was discharged from the war and returned home He has told me that not long after he came home his wife taking ill and died in a short time after She died he married again a young girl her maiden name was Jane right daughter of John Linder from Culpepper County old Virginia he had seven children by his last wife six sons and a daughter I was next to the youngest I was born 1805 in Rockingham County North Carolina my mother helped my father raise his first children and raised seven of her own after my father married his second wife he sold out and moved

And I caught a hundred farm on the road Leading to Washington City then he raised both family of children and got full of beating a motion And moved to South Carolina Spartanburg. Cons Jan 1824 I moved and left my for the same time after I moved he sent to me to come and write his will & visit And not his will he haunted his cousin Lee Sanders Executor of his will he told me to take his will and when he left Nov 1888 and laid a way to give the will to my brother. When he was named of his the I carried my for other I buried under in the place he buried my mother a few paces of his grave The Executor in looking over my for that paper We found his pocket book it contained 40 dollars in Contaminated money he gave me the book as a legacy to be Mule for the book as now lying in my Desk I have heard my father say that both of his marriages was recorded at Raleigh have some traces the Clement was John under Love fell like Excuse my bad hand writing me in my 80 for the year my father died January 13-1834 my mother died August December 12th 1855 I think the case must be recorded Daniel Linder

Old war Div.
D.N.I. Ex't.
No.
Department of the Interior BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Co.
Reg't
Return this letter with your reply.
Washington, D.C. December 12 th , 1888
Sir,
In reply to your communication relative to an application for pension by Jane Linder, on account of the service of her husband, John Linder, in the war of the Revolution, from North Carolina, I have to state that as she was unable, during her life time, to establish her title to the pension, "it was not allowed."
Your statement in connection with her application contains no specific inquiry, but if the object is to claim a pension, or arrearages of pension, it is stated for your information that the acts of Congress which granted pensions to those soldiers, do not contain any provisions for the benefit of their children, and there is no other law existing that will give to such children, the right to claim a pension, or arrears of pension, after the decease of the soldier and his widow.
Very respectfully
John C. Black Commissioner
Mr Samuel Linder Dalton
Whitfield Co Georgia

I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the accompanying pages numbered from one to Nine inclusive, are truly copied from the originals on file in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions.
P. S. Waldo L P Waldo BE IT REMEMBERED, That James H. Heath , who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full credit are and ought to be given.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 15 day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-5
Thomas C. Mendenhall Secretary of the Interior.

Jane Linder widow & Declaration
Georgia. Whitfield County.
On this the tenth day of August in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me Edward H. Edwards an acting Justice of the Inferior Court of said County - the same being a Court of Record Jane Linder who by reason of advanced age and bodily infirmity is unable to appear before a Court of Record aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration - That she is the widow of John Linder who was a Private in Captain Owens Company of Infantry in the war with Great Britain familiarly known as the Revolutionary war - that her said husband was drafted as a militiaman in Rockingham County, North Carolina in or about the fourteenth day of July - Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine and continued in actual service in said war for the period of about three years she thinks she recollects his mentioning his presence at the capture of the British under Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia but does not now recollect the names of the field or company officers under whom he served

other than Captain Owens - that at the close of the war her said husband was honorably discharged that she has seen his written discharge - does not recollect its date or by whom it was signed and does not know whatever became of it - or if in existence at all where she could find it - Presumes it has been lost or destroyed, and that her said husband remained in service until the close of the war - She further declares that she was married to the said John Linder in Rockingham County State of North Carolina on or about the fourth day of February Seventeen hundred and ninety three - that her maiden name was Jane Wright that the marriage ceremony was performed by a Mr Odell a Justice of the Peace and the license issued by Peter Watson that her said husband John Linder died in January A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty four and she declarant has remained single and unmarried ever since - and is now said John Linder's widow that she removed from Spartanburg District South Carolina where her said husband died in November A.D. 1838 to Whitfield County Georgia where she now resides - she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining all arrears of pension to which her said husband may have been entitled at the date of

This decree - and all arrangements of half and full Pensions to which she may be entitled under the various acts of Congress and for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress entitled an Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution Approved February 2nd 1848. She further states that neither her or her said husband ever received any Pension. Jane Her X Linder (Mark)
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written - And I hereby certify that I believe the said Jane Linder to be the identical person represented and that she is by reason of advanced age and bodily infirmity unable to appear before a Court of Record to make her declaration.
Edward H. Edwards J.P. 6.33
Proof of Death, Marriage &
Georgia, Whitfield County
Before me Edward H. Edwards a County justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County personally came Samuel Linder and Anna Linder both residents of the

County, and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that they know the foregoing declarant Jane Linder and that she is the identical person represented and that they knew her said husband John Linder and that said John Linder was always reputed and esteemed in the neighborhood in which he lived to be a Revolutionary that he often spoke of Revolutionary scenes in which he participated That said John Linder and the foregoing declarant Jane Linder lived together as husband and wife and were so esteemed and reputed and that the said John Linder died in Spartanburg District State of South Carolina in the month of January A.D. Eighteen Hundred and thirty four leaving declarant Jane Linder his surviving widow and that said Jane is still his widow And the afore- said Samuel Linder says that he was present when John Linder died, and deponent Anna Linder says she was not present when he died but was present at the sale of his effects by his executor & said deponent Samuel Linder says that he is aged about forty nine years - and said Anna that she is aged about forty four years and they both depose and say that they are not interested in said claim
Samuel Linder
Anna Linder
Sworn to and subscribed before me this August 10 th 1854 and I hereby certify that I know deponents believe them to be the age represented

and that they are the credible witnesses
Edward H. Edwards J.P. 16.
State of Georgia Whitfield County
I Britton C. Tyler Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Edward H. Edwards whose official signature is subscribed to the foregoing declaration of Jane Linder and to the foregoing affidavit of Samuel Linder & Anna Linder, is, and was at the time of his subscribing both said affidavits a justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that said Court is a Court of Record having a Clerk and Seal and that full faith and credit should be given to his Official attestation as such and that his sig- -nature to both the foregoing affidavits is genu- -ine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office this tenth day of August 1854
B. C. Tyler, Clerk, etc.
Dalton Ga Aug 10. 1854
To the Commissioner of Pensions to enclosed claim 3 Please examine to enclosed claim to arrearages of Pension and life Pension made by Jane Linder surviving

widow of John Linder - Revolutionary Soldier - under the various Acts of Congress I am fully confident she is the person represented - Your early attention will much oblige your humble servant to whom please direct any communications in regard to this claim.
Wm K Morris Dalton Whitfield County Ga
State of North Carolina Comptroller's Office
I William J Clarke Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the state aforesaid do hereby that it appears of Record in my Office among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military Services in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit -
"John Linder" Book C. No entry 8337 £ 0 12 D 4 Specie " " 5 Page 43 £ 9 11 2 D 0 " " " 2 £ 3 8 10 D 0 " " " 5 £ 82. 11. D 8 " C No 13 Page 3 £ 10 2 D 7
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Office this July 3 rd 1835
Wm J. Clarke. Compt r

We John Linder and Robert Gallaway both of the County of Rockingham and state of North Carolina do acknowledge ourselves our hearts justly indebted to Richard Dobbs Spaight Esqr. Gov + C. or his successors in Office the just and full sum of Fifty Pounds current money of said State to be paid in conditions that the said John Linder and Jane Bright intermarry with each other as man and wife agreeable to a License granted this date as witness our hands and seals this 4 th day of February 1793 John Linder (Seal) R Gallaway (Seal)
State of North Carolina Rockingham County I William W. Ellington Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full true and perfect transcript of Record of a bond given by John Linder and Robert Gallaway to obtain a License for the marriage of John Linder and Jane Bright and that there is no other Record or evidence of said marriage it being the only record required by law to be kept of marriages at the date of said bond - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal

the seal of our said Court at Office in Westworth this 1 st day of August A D 1854.
W. M. Ellington Clerk.
Power of Attorney to Moore & Canab
Georgia — } Know all men by these presents Whitfield County } that I Jane Snider of the County Whitfield and State aforesaid For and in consideration of Suf fy for ent s upon the Amount recovered by them and for divers good causes me thereunto moving do make constitute and appoint Lawrence W. Earnest of the County and State aforesaid and W m K Moore of the same place my true and lawful Attorneys for me and in my name to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government upon which a Revolutionary pension was granted to John Snider & dec d On a account of his Services as a Private in the Revolutionary War and to obtain by all lawful any and all amounts that that may be due from the United States to the said John Snider dec d by virtue of said services as a Revolutionary soldier aforesaid in the Company of Capt Owens — in the 1 st Regiment. And for grave and sufficient reasons do hereby revoke and cancel any and all other Powers of attorney which may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes and do hereby vest the same irrevocable in said Attorneys Lawrence W. Earnest and William K Moore with power in them to appoint one or more Attorneys under them for carrying out the above specified purposes.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28 th day of November 1853
In the presence of Charles Hall Samuel Linder Jane his Linder Mark
State of Georgia County of Whitfield
On this the 28 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me John Anderson an acting Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments in and for the County aforesaid
Jane Linder the subscriber to the above and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and made oath in due form of law that she personally interested as widow of John Linder in said Daim, And I further certify that she is personally known to me to be the identical individual represented
John Anderson J.P.
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