Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2112, Neel Colbreath, N.C.

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16491
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of our said Court on this the 20 th day of May 1845.
20 May 28. 1845.
Thomas J. Harrison

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of the 3 rd Section of the act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836 State of North Carolina Sampson County on this the 1 st day of March 1845 personally appeared before me Neil Campbell one of the acting Magistrates for the County of Sampson and a member of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of said County Martha Colbreath a resident of the aforesaid County and State aged Ninety one years who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Congress for certain Widows.
That she is the widow of the late Neil Colbreath who was a private soldier in the North Carolina the Militia in the war of the Revolution that from her advanced age and loss of memory she is unable at this time to tell who were her husband's officers or the exact length of time her husband served in the said war but from the best of her recollection her said husband Neil Colbreath served the United States Nine months in three months tour.
She further declares that she cannot tell the date of her marriage but that she was married to the said Neil Colbreath before the commencement of the aforesaid war, That her husband the aforesaid Neil Colbreath died in the year of 1825 Eighteen Hundred & twenty five and that she remains his widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
That her family register is lost and that she has no way by which she can prove the date of her marriage but that it took place as above stated before the said war.
Sworn to and subscribed on the aforesaid date before me Neil Campbell J.P. Martha her Colbreath mark

I the undersigned William Campbell Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that Martha Colbreath is known to be a woman of truth and respectability. I also certify that from old age and infirmity of body she is unable to attend Court to make her Declaration. and I further certify that she is the widow of Neil Colbreath who was said to have been a Revolutionary Soldier. and that they did live together as husband & wife up to his death. given under my hand, on this the 1 st day March 1845
William Campbell J.P.

State of North Carolina Sampson County
I Thomas E. Harrison
Clerk of the County Court of Sampson (which is now in session) do hereby certify that the declaration of Martha Colbreath and the accompanying deposition of Abesalome Patterson were this day read & approved by our said Court
I also certify that Neill Campbell whose name appears to the foregoing proceedings is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of our said Court on this the 20th day of May 1845.
Thomas E. Harrison
May 28. 1845.
6491

V No 6491 Martha Colbreath NC
Set to E. F. Bunn Aug 12/41
2112
act. # th July 18 th 1836

6491 May 28 1845.
Martha Colbreath,
Widow of Neel Colbreath, North Carolina.
Act 4. July 1836.
Deposited in Pension Office, 28. May 1845, by
E. F. Brown, Agent.

FROM E. F. BROWN'S General Agency Office, WASHINGTON CITY.

Power of attorney from Charles Stuart Coltrane
Markland A. H. Markland Co is authorized to do to Evans any bill of exchange or the documents at Mortimer in my hand S. H. Rose attor.
Hayfield 8 Oct 1885
4th July 1936 Susp. w. & AC
A. H. Markland

State of North Carolina } Cumberland County } Know all Men by these Presents that we Sabra Hall Cornelius Calbreath Josiah Jessup Sally Jessup & Molly Calbreath James White Martha White & Alexander Calbreath of the State of Georgia Heirs at Law of Will & Martha Calbreath Deed, Do hereby constitute John M Rose & John C Blacker our irrevocable Attorneys for us and in our names Countermanding all other Attorneys to prosecute a Claim for the Revolutionary services of Will Calbreath Deed and for his Widow Martha Calbreath now Deed and we hereby authorize our said Attorneys to examine all Papers or Documents in Relation to said Claim in the Departments at Washington or else where to file additional evidence or receive any Certificates, that may be found for said Claim to appoint one or more substitutes under them and in all they do or act as we could if severally present witness our hands and seals This 10 th day of Feb y 1855
Witness
Josiah Jessup Seal Sally Jessup Seal Sabra Hall Seal Cornelius Calbreath Seal Seal Seal Molly Calbreath Seal Note

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
2115
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Raleigh N.C. Compt. Office
To William H. Collins Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the name of Will Colbuth appears of record in this office as having had the following Special Certificates issued in his name for Military services (Bons) one for Nine Pounds see Book No 17 th page 2 and another for Nine Pounds (£9) see Book No 23 page 100 given under my hand and seal this 24 day of May 1845.
W. H. Collins Compt

State of North Carolina
Sampson County I on this the 11 th day of
April 1845 personally appeared before me Neill Campbell one of the acting Justices of the Peace for Sampson County, Obedience Sepurns a resident of the aforesaid County and State aged 85 years Eighty five years who being first sworn according to Law deponeth and saith, that she lives in the Neighborhood of Martha Colbreath widow of the late Neel Colbreath Dec d who is now applying for a pension for the Revolutionary services of her Dec d husband Neel Colbreath, that at the time this deponant was Married she lived near to the said Neel Colbreath and the said Martha Colbreath and that the aforesaid Neel Colbreath and the said Martha his wife were living together as husband and wife and had three children which was in the year of 1780 Seventeen hundred and Eighty, and that she the said deponant Obedience Sepurns did understand that the said Neel Colbreath was in the United States service in the war of the Revolution.
This deponant further states that from the Circumstance of the aforesaid Neel Colbreath and Martha living together as husband and wife and having three children in the year of 1780 Seventeen hundred and Eighty they must have married before the war of the Revolution commenced and that the said Neel and Martha did live together as husband and wife up to his death which took place about the year 1825 and that this deponant never heard it contradicted but what the said Neel Colbreath and Martha were Lawfully married
Sworn to and subscribed on the above date before me Neill Campbell J.P. Obedience her Sepurns
I certify that Obedience Sepurns, is a woman of truth and that her statements are entitled to full credit given under my hand the aforesaid date
Neill Campbell J.P.