Clay County IN Archives Military Records.....Witty, Andrew June 19, 1860
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Andrew Witty, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #R19064
State of Indiana, Clay County}
	“Be it known that before me, __ Compton, a justice of the peace in and for the
county of Clay,  and the state aforesaid, duly qualified and authorized to
administer oaths, S. S.:

	Personally appeared, Amelia R. Gillespie and William Witty, who first being sworn
according to law, and on oath, that they are son and daughter and legal heirs and
representatives of Andrew Witty, and who was a resident and who resided at the
Township of said county and county of Guilford of North Carolina, and who was a
soldier and private of the Revolutionary War of the Continental army, and who
entered said war as a private the 25th day of June 1773, and who drafted,
volunteered or enlisted as the case may be, and as may more fully be proven by the
company rolls and the muster rolls at the Department of the Interior at the City of
Washington. 

	Said applicants ___ and ___ that their father was a resident of Rockingham County,
state of North Carolina, and that he resided at Rockingham about six years previous
to his death, and that he died at Rockingham in the aforementioned state of North
Carolina, and that he died on the 6th day of May, 1819, and who previous thereto he
resided at the county of Guilford and state of North Carolina who was a private
soldier to the militia state troops of the county of Guilford and state of North
Carolina, and who served in said war before mentioned, the term of his engagement
_______ or during said war as the case may be, and served out the whole period or
time of his enlistment or engagement, and was honorably discharged.

	Said Amelia R. Gillespie and William Witty, applicants, make this application that
they may obtain the pension money that may be due and owing them as heirs-at-law,
the legal representatives of Andrew Witty, a soldier of the Revolutionary Army and
the Continental War and who served as above stated, and who died and leaving his
right to a pension from the United States unobtained, and who, leaving a surviving
widow, Lucretia McAdow Witty, who survived her said husband, deceased, who lived and
survived her said husband’s death eighteen years, and who was also entitled to a
pension under the present and existing laws of Congress giving Revolutionary
soldiers deceased leaving surviving widows a pension, whose pension rolls are to
take effect at the date of the death of said husband, and who is entitled to a
pension from the day of the death of her husband Andrew Witty, and who was to have
been entitled to 18 years back pay of the pension money that is now ann___ to the
legal heirs of said Andrew Witty, and to his said widow, but now owing to the said
Amelia R. Gillaspie and William Witty, applicants; said applicants claiming all that
may be due under the Act that might have been passed by Congress granting pensions
to Revolutionary soldiers and officers a pension under an Act of Congress passed the
18th day of March, 1818, or any other act that might have been passed by Congress
giving and granting pensions to “Certain Officers and Soldiers and their Widows and
Children” of Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers of the War of the Revolution, and
the said applicants makes this application claiming under Act of Congress as
aforementioned and any other act granting unto soldiers, widows of soldiers who have
died leaving widows pensions, and as well claiming under an act of February second,
section passed by the House of Congress claiming 3 years pension money that was due
and owing to Andrew Witty, and said money not having been paid to the said Andrew
Witty 18 years that was not paid to the widow of said Andrew Witty, the said Amelia
R. Gillaspie and William Witty, applicants, also claiming 18 years amount of pension
money that was due _______ of Andrew Witty’s ?widow and not having been paid unto
the said widow in her lifetime, and the said Amelia R. Gillaspie and William Witty.

	Hereby nominated and appointed John T. _____ my true and lawful attorney for me and
by me named to ____ and secure from the officers of the government of the United
States, and my said attorney is hereby authorized and empowered to constitute and
appoint one or more solicitors or attorneys under him, and I do hereby empower my
said attorney with the powers of substitution and revocation and with full authority
to receive and collect the amount of pension due him to Andrew Witty and his said
widow Lucretia Witty, and not having been paid unto him, a revolutionary soldier,
and we do hereby grant unto our said attorney full powers to ask and demand of the
government officers of the Department of the Interior at Washington City and all
lawful ___ as fully as I myself could do ____ to personally present myself at the
______ whereof for the purpose abovementioned , etc.etc. [more of the same, badly
expressed by the attorney.]

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