Habersham County GaArchives Military Records.....Wadkins, John November 6, 1850
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Wadkins, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll 2467, Application #W6415
Habersham County, Georgia}
	Personally came this day before me, Andrew Gurley, a justice of the peace in and
for the county and state aforesaid, James Anderson, and after being duly sworn,
saith on oath that he has been acquainted in the family of John Watkins and Cynthia
Watkins, his wife from early youth, and has often seen the within record and knows
it to be their family register, and that he is now 51 years old. He further says
that he has always understood from the said John Watkins that he was raised an
orphan boy by his aunt Rachel Watkins. He also further says that the said John
Watkins was always regarded and respected as a soldier and patriot of the
revolution. Sworn and subscribed before me, this 6th day of November, 1850, Andrew
Gurley. 
James Anderson.

Habersham County, Georgia}
	On this 24th day of June, 1851, On this 20th day of April, 1855, personally
appeared before me, one of the justices of the Inferior Court of the county and
state aforesaid, Cynthia Wadkins, a resident of the County aforesaid, aged 81 years,
who being first duly sworn makes on oath the following declaration…:

	That she is the widow of John Wadkins, a soldier in the Army of the United States, 
in the War of the Revolution in the North Carolina line [as she has been informed by
him] and served in that war [as she has been informed by him] as an express.

	That she was born in Pennsylvania and taken in early childhood to North Carolina
[as she remembers] to the County of Guilford and there resided till she was nearly
grown. That there, she became acquainted with the said John Wadkins, her future
husband, who lived in the same neighborhood. That when she was nearly grown, she was
taken by her father, John Loftis to Newberry District, South Carolina, where she was
married to the said John Wadkins, who had accompanied her father’s family from North
Carolina as a wagoner, during the year 1791, the precise month having escaped her
recollection. That her eldest child named Nancy Wadkins, now living and aged 59
years, was born the April of the year following her marriage; that she believes no
record of the marriage exists.

	That the aforesaid John Wadkins, her husband, who with the declarant and the rest
of his family moved into that part of Georgia now organized as Habersham County
about 40 years ago, and there resided until his death, died in said county on the of
19th February, 1841. That she was not married to her said husband prior to his
leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the 1st day of January,
1794, at the time and place aforesaid.

	That she and her husband were both illiterate and were therefore unable to keep
records of events happening in their family. That she did not apply earlier for a
pension because she did not know of the Act of Congress under which this application
is made until a recent period. Cynthia Wadkins, her mark.

Habersham County, Georgia}
	At a regular session of the Honorable Inferior Court of said county setting for
ordinary purposes, held this day at the courthouse of said county, the Honorable
Moses Ayers, one of the justices of the said court, being duly sworn in open court,
deposes and says that the foregoing declaration was subscribed and sworn to before
him by the said Cynthia Wadkins at the date therein stated at the residence of one
of her family in said county; and that she, on account of bodily infirmity, was and
is unable to attend at the courthouse for that purpose; deponent says that he has,
for many years, been acquainted with the late John Wadkins and the above declarant
Cynthia Wadkins, that they always appeared in society and recognized each other as
husband and wife, and as such, were universally recognized in the community in which
they lived. That the deponent knows that John Wadkins died in said county at or
about the time stated in said declaration. That from deponent’s knowledge of the
ages of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the said Cynthia
Wadkins, he is confident that her marriage with the said John Wadkins took place
before the 1st of January, 1794. Moses Ayer 

Habersham County, Georgia}
	Personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace in and for said county, James
Reynolds, a resident of said county who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he
is 64 years of age, that he was raised in the state of South Carolina, that in early
childhood he became acquainted with the family of the late John Wadkins who then
lived with them? in the house of the deponent’s father, that he has continued
?acquaintance from thence to the present time both while the said Wadkins lived in
the state of South Carolina and after his, the said Wadkins removal to the state of
Georgia, Habersahm County, in which county deponent himself has resided more than 20
years. 

	That in his early childhood he frequently associated with the children of  the said
Wadkins, and has ever since known the two eldest of them named Nancy and Rebecca;
that the said Nancy, deponent knows to be 59 and 60 years old, and the said Rebecca
to be about 18 months to two years younger; that the said Rebecca and Nancy were
_____ ____ always known to be the _____ [?children?] of the said John Wadkins and
Cynthia, his wife.

Deponent states that he has often heard the said JOHN speak of his service in the
Revolutionary War as a soldier under Captain BAKER from North Carolina; that he has
heard the said Wadkins say that he fought in the American Army in the Battles of
Guilford and Cowpens and was for some time employed in said army as an express. That
the said Wadkins died in the said county of Habersham, in February, 1841, that the
said John Wadkins and Cynthia Wadkins, who is now applying for a pension as his
widow, always appeared in society and were recognized by each other and by the
community in which they lived as husband and wife. James Reynolds

Habersham County, Georgia}
	On this 20th day of April, 1855, personally appeared before me, a justice of the
peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, Cynthia Wadkins, aged 85 years,
a resident of Habersahm County in the state of Georgia, who, being duly sworn
according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Wadkins, deceased, who was
a private in the company commanded by Captain ____ Baker, the regiment nor the name
of the colonel not now known or recollected, in the Revolutionary War with Great
Britain and the United States. That her said husband enlisted at Guilford in the
state of North Carolina, some time, as she believes, between 1776 and 1778, the
precise time not known, nor the term of time for which he enlisted, and continued in
actual service for the term of nine months, and was honorably discharged [the place
nor time of his discharge not now known or recollected]. 

	She further states that she was lawfully married to the said John Watkins some time
in the year of 1791, the month nor the day not recollected, by a justice of the
peace whose name she has forgotten, in Newberry District, South Carolina, and that
her name before her marriage was Cynthia Loftis.  That there is no public or private
record of her said marriage within her knowledge, possession, power or control. That
her said husband died at her present place of residence on or about the 19th day of
February, 1841 and that she is now a widow. She also declares that she is a
pensioner for the services aforesaid of her said husband and respectfully refers to
the proof now on file in the pension office of his said services in aid of this
claim for bounty land. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the
bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855.
Cynthia Wadkins, her mark. 

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