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Note for: A. Earl Pelfrey, 11 Dec 1950 - 9 Sep 1973
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Burial: Place: Oakdale Baptist Church Cemetery, Townville, Anderson County, South Carolina
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Note for: Melissa D. Pelfrey, 21 Jul 1972 - 9 Sep 1973
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Burial: Place: Oakdale Baptist Church Cemetery, Townville, Anderson County, South Carolina
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Note for: Callie Greer, 12 Sep 1911 - 3 Aug 1916
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Burial: Place: Old Silverbrook Cemetery, Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina
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Note for: Francis Powell, 21 Feb 1756 - Bet Jan 1, 1838 - March 22, 1839
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Individual Note: Francis Powell is listed in the Patriot Index of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution.
He participated in the battles of Brandywine, Bunker Hill, Camden,Cowpens, Guilford Courth House and the seige of Yorktown.
Francis served in Capt. William Tucker's Company of the Amherst County,Virginia militia from January 14, 1781 until March 26, 1782.
His children applied for a Rev. War pension (National Archives PensionPapers R-8404) in 1854. They were denied because they could not prove Francis' service at that time.
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Deed Book “NNN” Wilkes County, Georgia Superior Court Records, page 507
State of Georgia } This indenture made this 8th day of January 1839
Between Henry HYDE, Zachariah WORTHAM, Samuel WORTHAM, and William WELLS of the
County of Meriwether and Thomas POWELL of Talbot County of said State, John KENDRICK, William SIMPSON, Joseph BURDETT, Benjamin POWELL, Mary POWELL, of Wilkes, Edmond JACKSON of the County of Chambers, State of Alabama, and John H. DYSON agent and attorney for Joseph POWELL of Winchester [sic-Westchester] County and State of New York of the one part, and Mark Anthony of the County of Lincoln of the other Part. Witness that the said Parties of the first for and in consideration of The Sum of nine hundred Dollars to them in hand paid by the said Mark Anthony at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these presents The Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath bargained and Sold unto Mark Anthony, his heirs and assigns, all that tract of Land known as a part of the POWELL tract of Land containing two hundred acres more or less adjoining Jesse WILLIAMS, Benjamin POWELL and others. The same being part of the Real Estate of Francis POWELL, Dec’d, sold by the heirs of said Francis Together with all and singular the Rights members and appurtenances to the said tract or Parcel of Land in any wise Belonging or in any wise appertaining to To have and to hold the same to the said Mark Anthony, his heirs and assigns forever and _____ the said Parties of the first part the Tract of Land here mentioned and all and singular The Rights members and appurtenances to the Same in any wise belonging will warrant and defend unto the Land Mark Anthony his heirs and assigns against the Claim of all other persons whatsoever.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this day and year above written
Signed, sealed, and delivered } Thos. POWELL Wm. WELLS
In presence of } H. HYDE E. JACKSON
} S. WORTHAM J. B. KENDRICK
Zadock SMITH } W. SIMPSON B. POWELL
} J. BURDETT M. POWELL
W. B. JONES, J. P. } Zack T. WORTHAM
} John H. DYSON, atty for J. POWELL
Recorded 17 May 1839 }
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Revolutionary War Pension Application for the Heirs of Francis Powell, R. S.
Declaration [of Joseph T. Burdett]
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the United States of America, passed for the benefit of officers, or soldiers, or their widows, or the children of officers of soldiers who may have served in the American Revolution against Great Britain, which acts may at this time be of force in the United States of America for the benefit and relief of the above description of persons.
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State of Georgia } On this twenty-eighth day of March, Eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
} Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior
County of Wilkes } Court, within and for said County and state aforesaid, Joseph T.
} Burdett, a resident of said County, aged Forty-three years, who
being duly sworn according to the Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Pension Laws which are now of force in the United States of America for the benefit of officers and soldiers, their widows, or living children.
This deposition being made for the benefit of the living children of Francis Powell, deceased. And now deponent on his oath says that Mary Powell, Joseph Powell, and Elizabeth Burdett, of Wilkes County, Georgia; Nancy Jackson of Chambers County, Alabama; Jane Wortham of Coweta County, Georgia; Sarah Wortham, Caroline Wells and Benjamin Powell of Meriwether County, Georgia; and Thomas Powell of Talbot County, Georgia are the only living children of Francis Powell, deceased, and that deponent has been acquainted with the said Francis Powell for the last thirty years and that deponent married the daughter of Francis Powell over twenty years since, and resided in the house of said Francis Powell, from the time of said marriage until the death of said Powell, which has been about sixteen years since, and that deponent did very frequently, before and after the marriage aforesaid, and very shortly before the death of Francis Powell, hear him, the said Powell say that he, the said Powell, was born and raised in Amherst County, Virginia, and that he the said Francis Powell, did go into the Revolutionary Service against Great Britain as a volunteer from Amherst County, Virginia at the commencement of the American Revolution and served in the Virginia Line during the war, under the command of General George Washington, and that whilst the said Powell was in service he was very frequently in service with General Lafayette, and the said Francis Powell was in the Battle at Bunker Hill, the Battle at Brandywine, the Battle at Guilford, the Battle at the Cowpens, the Battle at Camden, and the Siege at Yorktown, and saw Lord Cornwallis surrender, after which the said Francis Powell was honourably discharged and returned to Amherst County, Virginia and resided in said County until the said Powell removed to Wilkes County, Georgia and resided [in] the last named County until the death of him, the said Francis Powell, which has been over sixteen years since, having the children as above named. The wife of the said Francis Powell having died previous [to] his death. And now this deponent does in behalf of the children of the said Francis Powell, make this declaration and deposition in order to obtain the Pension to which they may by Law, be entitled to as the only living children of him, the said Francis Powell, deceased, for services rendered by said Powell in the American Revolution against Great Britain. The foregoing being the best testimony which deponent can at this time procure, hereby relinquishing every other claim to said Pension, except the present, and that to the best of the belief of deponent, there has never been any enrollment for the same in this or any other state in the United States of America, to the best of the knowledge and belief of this deponent.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of March 1854.
Attest. J. M. Dyson, J. I. C.
Joseph T. Burdett (L. S.)
I, the undersigned Justice of the Inferior Court, within and for said County and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joseph T. Burdett, the deponent, in the above declaration is a Respectable resident in said County and that I believe declaration to be entitled to full Credit in Law. I having no interest in or to said claim nor concern.
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Given under my hand }
and official signature } J. M. Dyson, J. I. C. (L.S.)
this 28th day of March }
1854 }
I do certify that I was personally acquainted with Francis Powell in his lifetime and that I have frequently heard him say that he was in the Battles named in the above declaration and that I believe the children named in the same to be the children of the said Powell, and I have also known the declarant Jos. T. Burdett ever since he was born and that statements are entitled to legal credit.
28 March 1854 \s\ Samuel Flournoy
We, the undersigned citizens of Wilkes County, Georgia, do hereby certify, that we know Francis Powell, the person named in the within declaration, and that he was generally reputed, and believed in the community in which he resided before his death, to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, and we also believe the persons named in the within declaration, to be his lawful children, and that they are entitled to the benefit of the Pension Laws now of force in the United States of America, passed by the Congress of the United States for the benefit of Revolutionary Soldiers, their widows, or living children, given under our hand this 28th day of March 1854.
\s\ Thomas Anderson. I heard Francis Powel say he was a Revolutionary Soldier.
\s\ William Pool
\s\ Joseph T. Burdett
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State of Georgia }
} I, Royland Beasley, Clerk of the Inferior Court within and for said
County of Wilkes } County, do certify that James M. Dyson, before whom the foregoing
} declaration was subscribed and sworn to was at the time thereof a Justice of the Inferior Court within and for said County and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine, and that I am not directly or indirectly interested in the prosecution of the foregoing claim.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Washington in said County of Wilkes, this 29th day of March 1854.
\s\ Royland Beasley, Clk. I. C.
Cover Letter for the Burdett Declaration
Washington, August 3rd 1854
Hon. L. P. Waldo --
Sir
I have the honor to enclose the declaration of Joseph T. Burdett of the County of Wilkes, in the State of Georgia, in behalf of the heirs of Francis Powell, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Soldier as set out and for proof of which he refers to the Rolls in the Pension and War Departments, for a revolutionary pension. You will cause the case to be examined and report to me.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
H. C. Spalding
Atty