GREENE COUNTY, TN - COURT RECORDS - Lewis Wills Documents

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0222
State of TN, Greene Co.  
On this 28(?) Day of April 1848 personally appeared before me this subscriber
a justice of the peace for said county Mrs elinder Wills resident of the
county and state aforesaid, aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn acording
to law, doth on her oath make the following affidatif.  That she is the widow
of Lewis Willls a soldier of the war of the Revolution and drew a pension of
$96 pre annum, for particulars she refers the  -department to her former
declaration under the act of Congress of July 7, 1838 and in file in your
department.  
She further declares that she was married to her husband the aforesaid Lewis
Willis in the county of Nash in the State of NC on the 15 day of October 1792,
that her husband the aforesaid Lewis Wills died on the 5 th day of March 1832.
She further declars that she has no family record of the births of her
children and she had made every effort in her ---- (person?) to obtain this
marriage bond or licence from Nash County NC  but has failed from the fact as
she supposes that the records in the Clerks Office has been badly kept.
She now refers the department to the testimony of her neighbors Mr Young(?)
and Dr Waddell and others.  Elinder X her mark Wills.  Sworn to subscribed on
the day and year above written.

0223
Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the Act of the
18th March 1818  State of TN, Greene County
On this 6th day of Sept 1827 personally appeared in open court being a court
of records for the 1sat Judical District of the state Lewis Wills resident in
said county aged 83 years  (born 1744) who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
provisions made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 10 May
1820 that he the said Lewis Wills entered the Army of the US for the term of
18 months on or about the first of may 1781 in the state of VA in the company
commanded by Capt. Lamb in the Regt commanded by Colo CastinsX  in the line of
the State of VA and the Contintal, ----- ?----That he continued to serve in
said corps until the expiration of his term of service when he was discharged
from the service at the Winchester Barracks in the state of Virginia, that
during his term of service he was in a battle under General Wain at olde James
Town and at the taking of  Lord Cornwallace at little York.  That he humbly
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present.  That his
name is not on the roll of any state except Virginia and that he has never
had one cent from any of the states or the United States by way of a pension.
That the following is the  reason  for not making   -?   -? application for a
pension Viz,   (XGarkins in State of )   rest missing.  

0224
That he was not willing to ask any thing from his government while he was able
to support himself by his laboring, but now by reason of old age and bodily
infirmity he is under the humiliating necessity to ask a pitance from the
government that he has ?  to establish by devoting the best period of his life
to the service of his country, That he is a farmer by profession and is in
such indigent  circumstnces that he needs the pittance of his country.  
And in persuance of the Act of the 18th May 1820 I do solomly swear that I was
a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that
I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my
property to or any part thereof  with intent thereby so to do minus it as to
bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitiling to provide
for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States
in the R W on the 18 March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in
trust for me any property or securities or debts due to me nor have I any
income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me
subscribed.  That since the year 1818 the following changes have been made in
my property ? it .. In the year 1818 I was in the possession of a tract of
land that i purchased byrom one Rankin but was unable to pay him for said land
and consequently had to sell it to a man Samuel Bowman to pay for the same.  2
cows  but now dead and horse ---? ??  which died some years ago. So that
0225
applicant has not now one dollars worth of property in the world save his
wearing aparreal  & necessary bedding.  Sworn to and  subscribed the day and
date above written.  Lewis (his mark) Wills.

I Valentine Sevier, clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Greene in the
1st judicial district for the satee of Tennessee do certify that it appearing
to the satisfaction of the court that the said Lewis Wills did serve in the RW
as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy for the term
of (?nine?) months  under and engagement and the contintenal establishment
(this does not make sense to me but is all I can get out of it)  I also
certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto annexed and truely copied
from the records of the said county.  In testimony where of I have hereunto
set my had and affixed my private seal having no seal for the office. this 6th
day of Sept 1827.  V Sevier CCC by M Payne.