Habersham County GaArchives Military Records.....Perdue, Sarah March 24, 1855
Revwar 
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Bounty Land Application
State of Georgia}
County of Habersham }
On this twenty fourth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and 
fifty-five. Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within
and for the county and state aforesaid, Sarah Pardue aged eighty one years 
a resident of Habersham County in the State of Georgia, who being duly sworn
according to law, declares that she is the widow of Lilliston Pardue deceased
who was a sergeant in the war of the Revolution in the state of South Carolina
for the term of six months and upwards and continued in the actual service for
that time and was honorably discharged in said state at the termination of his 
service. She further declares and states that she was married to the said 
Lilliston Pardue in the state of South Carolina, Edgefield District on the 5th 
day of June A.D. 1793 by one Benjamin Harry a Baptist Minister of the Gospel,
and that her name before her said marriage was Sarah West, that her said
husband died in the state of Georgia on the 7th day of February A.D. 1807 and
that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining Bounty land to which 
she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855.
Sarah (herXmark) Pardue
We David S. Oliver and Thomas J. Hughes Jr residents of Habersham County in
the state of Georgia upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration,
was signed and acknowledged in our presence by Sarah Pardue and that we believe
from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical
person she represents herself to be and that her family record shows the date
of her marriage with Lilliston Pardue and of his death of which the following 
is a true copy "Marriage of Lilliston Pardue and Sarah West June 5th 1793 A.D."
"Death of Lilliston Pardue Feb 7th 1807 A.D." and that the original is genuine
and the copy correct.
David S. Oliver
Thomas J. Hughes Jr
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscibed before us 
on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be
credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be
and that I have no interest in the claim
William C. King J.P.
State of Georgia
County of Habersham
I certify that William C. King Esq before whom the foregoing declaration and
affidavit were made is and was at the date of the same an acting Justice of
the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned
and qualified and that his signature above is genuine.
On Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my 
office this 2nd day of April 1855.
Philip Martin clerk of the
Superior Court of said county.


Additional Comments:
Lilliston Perdue was born ca 1748 in Amelia Co., Virginia to John and Sarah 
Adams Perdue. He received one third of the appraised value of three slaves at
his father's death in Warren Co., NC 1769. He married first in Warren Co., NC
(Elizabeth Spears?) and moved to South Carolina with two of his brothers - all
three served in the Revolution. Lilliston received permission to keep a tavern
in Edgefield Co., SC. He had at least three children by his first wife 
(names unknown). He married second to Sarah West and they had six children. 
He died at 59 years in Lincoln Co., Georgia. Sarah West Perdue died 1855
in Habersham Co., Georgia.

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