Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,121, Hawkins Bracket, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Bracket, Hawkins Sally
P. 1,121
CONTENTS

V 12.582.
Sally Brackets
La wid. of Hawkins
Set. to J. L. & A. T. Smith May 26, '48.
1121
Act 7 July '38.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1121 Ans
RECEIVED
P. O. Sally Brackell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

12582 Mar 2/86 Sally Brackett widow of Hawkins Brackett Indiana - act 7 July 1838
filed by J. L. & A. T. Smith
J. L. & A. T. Smith Present -

State of Indiana
Johnson County. On this 31 st Day of May One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Five (1845) personally appeared before the subscriber Associate Judge in And for the County and State aforesaid Sally Bracket a Resident of said County and State aged Seventy Eight Years who being by me first duly sworn according to law Doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 Entitled An Act granting Half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the Widow of Hawkins Bracket who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and served she thinks two tours six months each she does not know whether by Enlistment or No. in the Continental line of North Carolina she is not certain as to the corps he was in she thinks he served under Col O'Leaveland says she cannot recollect the Other Officers Names she further states that he was in the Battle of Kings Mountain she cannot state in what year precisely when her deceased husband entered the service but thinks in 1779 or 1780 she further declares that she was married to Hawkins Bracket her deceased husband on the 2 nd day of October A.D. 1785 and that her deceased husband the aforesaid Hawkins Bracket died she thinks in the Summer of 1821 but says she cannot recollect the precise time she further states that she was not married to her husband prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January A.D. 1794 viz at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed On this 21. st day of May A.D. 1845 John Wilson as county judge

John Wilson the associate judge before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed do certify that Sally Bracket the declarant is unable from bodily - infirmary to attend said court at its usual place of sitting Given under my hand this 21 st day of May 1845 John Wilson associate Judge
State of Indiana } Johnson County } On this 21 st day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty five Personally appeared before the subscriber Associate Judge In and for said County Winrod Whitaker and Maryan Will Both Residents of said County who being by me first Duly sworn according to law both on their oaths Depose and say that the aforesaid Hawking Bracket They think died some time in the year 1821 but says that they cannot recollect so as to state the precise time and further says that the aforesaid Sally Bracket the declarant is now living as the widow of the said Deceased Hawking Bracket in Johnson County Indiana
Sworn to and subscribed } Winrod Whitaker This 21 st Day of May A.D. 1845 }
Before me John Wilson associate judge } Maryan her Will mark

22 I John Wilson the Associate Judge before whom the foregoing Deposition was sworn to and subscribed do certify that - Minerva Whitaker and Maryann Hill is persons of Credibility which I certify from my own personal Knowledge Given under my hand this 21 st day of May A.D. 1845
John Wilson associate Judge
State of Indiana Johnson County I Isaac Jones Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do Certify that John Wilson whose Official Signature Subscription to the foregoing Declaration-Deposition and Certificate of Credibility is Associate Judge in and for said County duly Commissioned and Qualified as such and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office this 20 th day of May A.D. 1845 Isaac Jones Clerk

Anthypodius here 10 th Sept 8
Sir
I enclose to you the $1 Bill which you sent in your letter to pay for. I have no doubt you used it, it is not worth checking here comes round at it, I have generally some business to do at House of Thompson I am now saying when an opportunity is afforded now, I think that you probably might place a spark of confidence in checks as well as for them to place all in you. I have attended to a good deal of business for Strangers & when it is done and sent to them it is the last time hearing of it -
G. M. Logan
P.S. I can find no other Bills that you have written for.
G. M. L.

I know all men by their fruits that in Hawkins Br aet
Hawkins his Brat mark Frederick his Brat mark Nathaniel his Brat mark
On the Back is endorsed "Hawkins Brat Mess- age Board"
State of North Carolina I G. M. Logan Clerk of the Court of Pleas of Quarter Sessions for Rutherford County certify the above to be a true Copy of the instrument filed in my Office to which it refers. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court at office I subscribed my name this 10 th June 1845. G. M. Logan clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Bracket, Hezekiah GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBERS 5520 and 29-60-55 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Apr. 19, 1792 to not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.