Habersham County GaArchives Military Records.....Perdue, Sarah June 3, 1844
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application
State of Georgia}
Habersham County}
On the 3rd day of June 1844 personally appeared before me Elihu S. Barclay one
of the Justices of the Superior Court in and for said County Sarah Pardue a
resident of the 409th district Georgia Militia in the County of Habersham and
State of Georgia aged seventy 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 the act of Congress passed July the 4th 1836 
(or any other act or acts that may embrace the services hereto annexed and
herein after named)that she is the widow of Lilliston Pardue a Revolutionary
Soldier who was a Sergeant in the Militia in the State of South Carolina for
the term of at least six months as appears from a certified copy from the Indent
Book T from the Executive Department of the State of South Carolina as per Col.
Anderson under whom he served. She also says that according to traditionary
evidence he the said Lilliston Pardue was enlisted and mustered into Service
in Savannah in the State of Georgia and Territory of Florida and was engaged
three successive Sundays in fighting the Indians which latter service She hopes 
will be readily found on record at the war department. She further declares that
she was married to the said Lilliston Pardue on the 5th day of June in the year
1793, that her husband the aforesaid Lillitson Pardue died on the 7th day of
February 1807 and that she has remained a widow eversince that period and raised
six children that were under sixteen years of age at the death of their 
father the said Lilliston Pardue as will now fully appear by reference to the 
proof hereto annexed. She declares that she is now a cripple and unable to 
support herself without the help of the government.
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Elihu S. Barclay J.S.C.
Sarah (herXmark) Pardue
State of Georgia}
Habersham County}
I Elihu S. Barclay one of the Justices of the Superior Court in said county in 
state aforesaid do hereby certify that Sarah Pardue is so indisposed that she 
could not attend in open court to make her declaration & that I have this day
been to see her and that she made it before me June the 3rd 1844.
Elihu Barclay J.S.C.
State of Georgia}
Habersham County}
I Lawson B. Hambright Clerk of Superior Court of Said County do hereby certify
that Elihu S. Barclay acting Justice of the Superior Court in and for the said
County of Habersham and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is
genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Court this third day of June eighteen hundred and forty-four.
Lawson B. Hambright C.S.C.




Additional Comments:
Lilliston Perdue was married twice. He had three children by first wife -
their names unknown. He was 45 years old when he married second Sarah West. 
They were married for thirteen years when he died. He left six children under
sixteen. They were: 1) Fields Perdue (proven by 1819 deed from Sarah to her son
Fields)
2) Elizabeth Perdue m. Stephen Christian
3) Mary Perdue married first to Oliver second Thos J. Hughes (Sarah West Perdue 
lived with Mary according to 1850 census Habersham Co., Georgia)
4,5 and 6 (unknown daughters)

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