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Cary Cox Affidavit Revolutionary Service
C. Rev. Ser. (Cont’d)
			PENSION STATEMENT BY ASA COX,  16-5
				SON OF CARY COX, SR.  16

State of Georgia )  SS:
Harris County  )

On this 24th day of June A. D. 1852 before me a Justice of the
Interior Court of said county personally appeard Asa Cox aged
seventy six (76) years passed, a resident of the county and state
aforesaid, who after being duly sworn according to law doth upon
his oath make the following statements.  That at the time of his
earliest recollection he was living in Halifax County, North
Carolina.  That this was in time of the Revolutionary War.  That
his father Cary Cox, and his brother, William Cox, were engaged in
said war.  That he has no recollection of the time when his father
and said brother went into the service, but he remembers
distinctly that his father got wounded and came home and that when
his mother talked a great deal about his said brother William who
still remained in service after the return of his father as stated
above, and he remembers his mother said that his brother was
fighting for liberty, against the Tories and British.  That he
does not know what officers his said brother served under nor what
time he went into service, but that he continued in service until
peace was made.  That he remembers clearly when his said brother
came home.  That he talked much about the hardships that he and
his fellow soldiers had endured.  And deponant further states that
about the year 1788 himself and his fathers family moved from
North Carolina to Edgefield District South Carolina that about two
or three years after this his said brother William Cox also moved
from n. Carolina to said District South Carolina, where he lived a
few years and moved to Pendleton District in said State, where he
remained until about the year 1822 when he moved to Habersham
County, Georgia where he remained until his death which occurred
on the 21st day of March 1848, as he had been credibly informed
and verily believed.
	And he swares that he is a disinterested witness.
					(Signed)
					P. T. Trammell  J. P.
					(possible spelling as unclear)

"Memoirs Georgia"  Published by Southern Historical Association, Certified 
Extracts 1895  Vol. 1, Page 1058.

DAR NO. 157234  Vol. 158, Page 74

Revolutionary Army Account.  Comptrollers Acct. Book K., p. 222.
N. C. Archives, Raleigh, N. C.



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