REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - CHARLES ADKINS

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Linda Hallman, Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia


Upson County, Georgia Pension Application August Term 1832


Application for Pension, Revolutionary War Soldier Charles Adkins.


State of Georgia, County of Upson.

On this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before Christopher B. 
Strong, Judge of the Superior Court of the County of Upson and Flint district of 
Georgia which said court is now sitting Charles Adkins a resident of the county 
of Upson and State of Georgia, age seventy two years who being first 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 the seventh eighteen 
hundred and thirty two
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named 
officers and served as herein stated. That in the month of August in the year 
seventeen hundred and eighty, he entered the service as a volunteer private 
soldier in a company of cavalry or mounted infantry under the command of one 
John Sneed of Major William Hunts Battalion and Col. John Dickerson  Regiment of 
Cavalry or mounted infantry for the term of six months and that he served a tour 
of duty in said service under the said named officers for six month, the command 
of the same for the term of two months about the latter end of the said term of 
service, that he resided at the time he entered said service as a foresaid in 
the county of Granville, State of North Carolina and that he served said tour of 
duty as a volunteer as before fore stated, that his term of service exspired 
about the month of February in the year seventeen hundred and eightyone. He was 
at a partial engagement at the town of Charlotte, North Carolina, and also in 
the one at Remsaw or Ramseys Mill in the State of North Carolina, that he 
marched through a part of the state of North Carolina and part of the state of 
South Carolina, that Col. William Washington; Regiment of the Dragoons was 
frequent appointed with the regiment to which he belonged.  That he was 
personally acquainted and knew Colonel William Washington and does not now 
recollect the name of any other regular officer.  That he has no documentary 
evidence to establish the foregoing facts, and that he know o f no person whom 
testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, he hereby relinquish 
every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except for the present and 
declared that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.  
Sworn to and subscribes the day and year foresaid. 
                                                       Charles Adkins

Wm P. Yonger, Clk, S.C.

We Alexander T. Edwards, Clergyman residing in the County of Upson and State of 
Georgia and Lemuel G. Dawon, residing in the same, hereby certify that we are 
well acquainted with Charles Atkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above 
declaration, that we believe him to be seventy tow year of age, that he is 
reputed and lived in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of 
the revolution and we concur in that opinion.   Sworn and subscribed the day and 
year aforesaid.


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