Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,316, for Dudly Pool, Virginia

SERVICE
Pool, Dudley
NUMBER
R. 8316
CONTENTS
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Rejected on account of property June 28. 1825
The letter to agent G. Anderson

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
8316
P. O.
Dudley Pool
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Decorations of Road France Wilks City Washington Yanett and West
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Drakey Post 12680 Wilkes County Georgia

Dudley Post 12680 Wilkes County Georgia
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Garnett Andrew Washington Wilkes Co Georgia 1880 Vellacum

State & District of Georgia
On the third day of January 1825 personally appeared in open Court to wit the Superior Court of said Wilkes County sitting for ordinary purposes, a Court of Record being constituted such by the laws of said State and having its proceedings recorded, Dudley Pool resident in said County & age Seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 1 st May 1820 that to the said Dudley enlisted for the term of two years about the first of the revolutionary war in the State of Virginia by Captain William or Charles Fleming or Fleming & served in the company commanded by said Capt Fleming in the Seventh Virginia Regiment after the regiments were consolidated commanded as this declarant thinks by Col McClanahan or a McClanahan that he was discharged in the State of Pennsylvania, and as this declarant thinks at a place called the White Marsh camp that it was at the Battle of Brandywine the battle was where Brandywine was across from there and other uncountable engagements during the term of his enlistment as aforesaid.

That he as a Volunteer was at the capture of Lord Cornwallis, that the summer after his discharge he enlisted the second time in Virginia & thinks in Augusta County for the term of 18 months, forgetting by whom (his memory being much impaired but thinks he served a part of his time under Captain Paine, that was at the Battle at Charlestown South Carolina where he was taken prisoner, that before he was exchanged his time of service for which he enlisted the last time had expired, thinking he was discharged (after the expiration of his said last time of service at James River Virginia, that he has no other evidence in his favor of his said services than his own oath, and in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with the intent thereby to do to diminish, or to bring myself within the act providing of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not now nor had any person in trust for me any property or security contracts debt, assets nor I have any income other than what is contained in schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed, that by occupation I was a farmer but from great age, and from the circumstance of my being entirely blind I am unable to support myself with the common necessaries of life without assistance, that I am a resident of the county of Rocking and has resided there for upwards of thirty years previously to which time I resided in Bedford County Virginia, that his family consists of his wife

Who is about fifty years of age that former cleric she cannot work any at all for more than half the year. Two Children, a boy about twelve or thirteen years old and a girl about ten or eleven able to do but little more than a common sort, a negro boy about 15 or 16 years old able to common work
Dudley his X Poole marks
Sworn to and subscribed in open court
This 3 rd day of January 1825
Thomas Wootten J96 Job Pender J96 Jno W Gouppin J96
1 negro boy about 15 or sixteen years old 1 old mare & 1 old horse 6 or 8 head of cattle, 24 head hogs, 1 now one John Evans for three hundred dollars I do owe for 50 sundry other articles of household furniture not worth more than $50
Dudley his X Poole marks
It is the opinion of the court that the property contained in the above schedule is worth $455.-
Thomas Wootten J96 Job Pender J96 Jno W Gouppin J96

Georgia I John Dyson Clerk of Wilkes County & the Court of ordinary in for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that the within is truly Copied from the Minutes of the Court of ordinary for said County —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 14 th day of June 1825.
John Dyson C.O.R. C.O.