Georgia:  Columbia County:   Randal Ramsey, Documentation of 
Revolutionary War Service, 1 March 1784

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1784, March 7 { Copy of Original Document}
STATE OF GEORGIA (???} Battallion
This is to certify that Randol Ramsy Jr hath steadfastly done his duty, 
from the time of passing an Act at Augusta, to wit, on the 20th of 
August, 1781, until the total Expulsion of the British from this state, 
and the said Randol Ramsy cannot be convicted of plundering or 
distressing the country; and is therefore, under the said Act, entitled 
to a Bounty of two Hundred and Fifty Acres of good Land, free
from taxes for ten years. 
Given under my hand, at Savannah the 1st day of March 1784
Jas. McNiel Coll
{Copy of Original Document}
This is to certify that Randal Ramsey was inlisted in the company which I 
commanded in the First Georgia Battallion of Continental Troops and that 
he faithfully discharged the dutys of a Soldier and is Justly intitled to 
all the immunities of A Soldier of that Battalion.
Chas Bostwick Capt {Reverse}
I assign over all my Rights to two hundred & eighty seven Acres of
{land} due to me for service done in the Continental line of this State. 
Randal Ramsey