REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - HENRY GARLAND

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Upson County, Georgia Pension Application August Term 1832

Submitted to USGenweb Archives by Linda Hallman
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Application for Pension, Revolutionary War Soldier Henry Garland, Senior.


State of Georgia, County of Upson.

On this thirtieth day of August in the Year of Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty 
two personally appeared in open court before Christopher B. Strong, Judge of the 
Superior Court of the County of Upson and State of Georgia and Flint Circuit in 
said State now sitting Henry Garland Senior a resident of the County of Upson in 
the State of Georgia aged seventy years who being duly sworn according to law 
doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit 
of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  That he entered the services of the 
United States under the following named officers and served as herin stated.  He 
entered the service under the Command of Colonel William Linton, and Major John 
Powers (his christian name he is not positive) and Captain Levi Lane in the 
militia State Troops of the State of North Carolina abut the first of March in 
the year seventeen hundred and eighty one and served eighteen months immediately 
-------- at which expires he left the service, he was also a part of the time of 
performing said tour of duty under the command of General Nathaniel Greene and 
under Major Pinckney Eaton and Captain Smith, his christian name not 
recollected, and he resided in the county of Halifax, State of North Carolina at 
the time he entered the service. He marched through the State of North Carolina, 
South Carolina and at Augusta, Georgia.  He was a volunteer private soldier. He 
was under the command of General Greene at the Battle of Guilford in the State 
in the state of North Carolina and was at the taking and storming of Thompson 
Fort in South Carolina and was at the taking of Brown & Grayson Fort at Augusta, 
Georgia at that time under the command of General or Colonel Lee.  He was 
acquainted with the Regular officers heretofore named, and with Colonel William 
Washington wh commanded a regiment of light horse.  He was in Company with the 
regular company in General Nathaniel Greene; at the Battle of Guilford and those 
under the command of Lee and Colonel Washington.  He has no documentary 
evidence, and he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who 
can t testify to his service.  He hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a 
pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the 
pension roll of the agency of any state.  Sworn to and subscribed before me the 
day and year aforesaid.
Wm P. Yonge, Clk, S.C.                       Henry Garland, Senior (x his mark)

Notes: Certificate made by Zachariah H. Gordon
and Peter Holloway
the Court & Clerk 30 August 1832  

        


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