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Lawrence County Court April Term 1825) |
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On the 14th day of April 1825
personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for said
county, Isaac Horton, aged sixty-six years on the 12th day May
next, resident in said Lawrence County who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath state that he served in the
Revolutionary War....That he has no means of proving said service but
by his own oath, except his pension Certificate No. 4562, which he
procured under the act of 1818, payable in Knoxville E. T. in
reality, but altho back at the Branch Bank of State (?). Moreover he
being at that time in Anderson County East Tennessee, from which he
had removed to Lawrence....That I am by occupation a farmer and now
unable to support myself by my labour. My family consists of myself
and as aforesaid my wife Hannah, aged about sixty-four, very
infirm, and two grandchildren, James and Polina. James
aged 13, Polina 9. That the reason he did not apply for a pension
prior to the first of March 1825 was because when his pension was
discontinued for want of a Schedule he did not apply again. Thought
he had more property than the act of Congress
____________(illegible). And for that reason did not apply, but by
his ______ and his property he has been able to support himself and
family until after the first of March 1825, but he now applies so
because lack from strength(?) of said property and ______ ______
since the year 1818 disposed of some of his property but for the
support of his family and what not. Now applies....Very much need the
support of government--and I be solemnly sworn 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 other way disposed
of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish as
to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congress passed
on the 18th day of March 1818____ _____ an act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in
the Revolutionary War, and that I have not nor has any person in
trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me
nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule
herinto affixed and by me subscribed.
Isaac Horton
Schedule
1 horse, 10 years old, 15
hands high nearly blind.......$15
1 mare, 10 or 12 years old,
about 13 1/2 hands high, blind of one eye.....$30
1 year old colt, small.....$15
5 cows & calves.....$50
2 yearlings....$2
2 sows & 10 pigs....$8
1 old waggon....$25
1 kettle & cover, 1 plow....$6
for a total of $151
I owe about ten dollars
and have about fourteen owing to me.
Isaac Horton
Sworn and Subscribed in open
Court this 5th April 1825
M. H. Buchanan, Clk.