FRANKLIN COUNTY, NC - MILITARY- Pension Record of Solomon Bibby, 1841 
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16 June 1841

State of N. Carolina
Franklin County

            This day came Aaron Devancey? before me one Jeremiah Solomon 
one of the active Justices of the Peace in and for the county and state 
aforesaid to depose and say what he knows of the Revolutionary service of 
Solomon Bibby, free man of color of the county of Franklin and state aforesaid 
who upon examination depose and say as follows (to wit) that his father was an 
officer of the army under Genl Sumner and that he has heard him say 
Frequently that he was in the army with him and no finer soldier he never saw 
in his life, and he further say that he has heard Captain William Faison say 
that he served with him all the time further more he sayeth not    Sworn and 
submitted this day before me the day and date here written.

Aaron Devancy?

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State of North Carolina Franklin County

This may serve to satisfy that a certain coloured man by name Solomon Bibby 
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War he is a free man was a waiter to 
General Jethro Sumner.  General Sumner was a citizen of Warren County NC and 
I was raised a neighbour to him.  I was well acquainted with the aforesaid 
Solomon Bibby at the time he served under General Sumner and I now know him 
and he is still living in this county (say Franklin).  There can not be a 
doubt but he was a Continental soldier and served his time faithfully.  I 
have only to add that William Ransom Esq. of this county knows as much or 
probably more than I do.

P. Hawkins


             This day personally appeared before me Jno. D. Hawkins a Justice 
of the Peace for said county Philemon Hawkins and made oath that the above 
statement subscribed by him is true.  June the 15th Day 1841 as witnessing 
hand this day.

Jno. D. Hawkins (J. Peace)