ROBERTSON COUNTY TX – REPUBLIC OF TEXAS PENSION:  JOSEPH S. ABLE

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REPUBLIC OF TEXAS CLAIMS

PENSION AFFIDAVIT FOR JOSEPH S. ABLE


OATH OF IDENTITY

Joseph S. Able of the county of Robertson in the State of Texas on this first 
day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy four personally appeared 
before me, the undersigned, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that 
he is the identical Joseph S. Able who was a private in Captain M. Castleys 
Company of infantry that he enlisted on the 11th day of September 1836 for the 
term of (3) three months and was discharged at Castleys Store in Nacogdoches Co. 
on the 11th day of  Dec. 1836 by reason of exhustion of service, age __ years 
that he recvd the bounty warrant for 320 acres of land mentioned in certificate 
of J.J. Groos Compt of ___ office that attached for his service.

J. S. Able

Sworn to and subscribed before me, at Austin Texas this first day of June 1874
Steph. H. Darden

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State of Texas
Travis County

This day personally appears J. L. Warren who being duly sworn according to law 
declares that he has known Joseph S. Able since the year 1846 that the said Able 
is a resident of Robertson County Texas and about 65 years of age, that he knows 
of his own knowledge that he is the identical man he professes to be and that he 
received the bounty warrant for 320 acres of land mentioned in certificate of 
J.J. Groos Co_. of Genl. Ld Office here to attached, for services in the Army of 
the Republic in 1836.

J. L. Warren

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State of Texas
Travis County

This day personally appeared H. C. Goodrich who being duly sworn according to 
law, declars that he has known the Joseph S. Able now present since the year 
1869 that the said Able has always been considered a good citizen & truthful 
upright man.  That he is a resident of Robertson County, about 66 years of age.  
That I have known him from reputation for years and an perfectly satisfied in my 
own mind that he is the very identical man who was in the army of the Republic 
in the year 1836 as shown by his own affidant and to certificate of J.J. Groos 
as Cms of Genl Land Office.

H. C. Goodrich

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State of Texas
Travis County

This day personally appeared A. C. Walters of Hood County Texas who being duly 
sworn according to law declars that the Joseph S. Able now of Robertson County 
Texas is the identical Joseph S. Able who was a private in Captain Castleys 
Company in the year 1836.  I was well acquainted with him at that time and I 
know he was in Castleys Company.

A. C. Walters

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COMMENT BY CONTRIBUTOR:
The following also made affidavits to the identity of Joseph S. Able.

M. W. Dikes of Bell County