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WILLIAM BARRETT
Claim of William Barrett - a revolutionary Soldier Be it known that on this thirteenth day of May A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Wm Barrett, Samul Barrett, Jacob Stutts, Elizabeth Stutts residents of in said County, and made oath according to law that they are the to wit William Barrett, Samuel Barrett & Elizabeth Stutts (wife of Jacob Stutts) are children of William Barrett Sr & Jacob Stutts husband of said Elizabeth Stutts & son in Law of said William Barrett Sr who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of Fifty Nine 43/100 Dollars per annul; that they have been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments s my AGent may us in presenting said claim. Wm Barrett (Seal) Samuel Barrett (Seal) Jacob Stutts (Seal) Elizabeth (her mark) Stutts (Seal) Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me SC Bruce J. Peace I SC Bruce, Justice of the Peach, in and for said County do hearby certify that William Barrett, Samuel Barrett, Jacob Stutts and Elizabeth Stutts who executed the foregoing appear are respectable residents of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth SC Bruce, J. Peace I Alexander C Curry Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samuel C Bruce before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is his signature In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Sear, this Thirteenth day of may AD 1852 A C Curry, Clerk
State of North Carolina, Moore County
We Willis D Dowd, Donald McDonald and Kenneth Matheson three of the Justices of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions in and for the county of Moore in the State aforesaid have caused Henry B Stutts of said county to appear before us in the office of the Clerk of said Court on this 30th day of may AD 1853 and the said henry B Stutts being now here duly sworn by us according to Law The said Henry B Stutts says that he is acquainted with the children and heirs at Law of William Barrett dead and that said Barrett was a Pensioner under the laws of the United States that the children living as applicant believing are, to wit, William Barrett, Samuel Barrett, Walter Barrett, Elizabeth Stutts wife of Jacob Stutts, Charlotte Moore wife of John Moore and that all the rest of the children of Wm Barrett as defendent believing is dead. Said Witness further states that there has been an administration taken out heretofore on the estate of said William Barrett (pensioner) and as he is informed and believing that Jacob Stutts was the administrator and that he gave as his Security Donald Street and Duncan Murchison think the amount of the ? as he is informed by the Clerk of the County Court of Moore is six hundred Dollars. That said witness is acquainted with the pecuniary situation of Jacob Stutts and the securities to his administration bond that the principal and Surities are good for a much larger ? than the amount invested in the bond, that Duncan Murchison one of the Surities is a man of large property both real and personal and that Jacob Stutts administrator owns a valuable tract of land and much personal property Henry B Stutts (Seal)
Sworn to and subscribed before us this 30th day of may AD 1853
State of North Carolina, Moore County This day personally appeared before me Daniel B Currie one of the acting Justises of the piece of said County Patience Lewis and after being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and sayeth that she is about Ninety Six or Seven years old at this time and that she was at William Barretts weding and he married Ann Sowell some time shortly after the Revilutionary War and that the said William Barrett Was a brother to the applicant and the said William Died some time before his wife Ann and that he is the same William Barrett alluded to in my affidavitt heretofore taken as a Souldier of the revilutionary War Patience (her mark) Lewis Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 7th Dec AD 1854 Danl B Currie JP State of North Carolina, Moore County I Daniel B Currie one of the Justices of the piece of said County do Certify that I have been well acquainted with patience Lewis the maker of the above affidavitt for the last thirty years and that she is a Woman of verasity and Truth this the 7th day of December AD 1854 Daniel B Currie |
