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Bounty Land Claim
Form of Declaration for
Surviving Officer or Soldier.
State of Arkansas,
ss.
County of Pike,
On this eleventh day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,
personally appeared before me, I.D. Wall a Justice of the Peace, duly
authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State
aforesaid, William T. Dickson aged 55 years, a resident of Pike County in
the State of Arkansas, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that
he is the identical Wm. T. Dickson who was a Private in the Company
commanded by Captain James Rogers in the 2d (as he believes) Regiment of
Tennessee Volunteers commanded by Col. Haines in the war against the
Seminole Indians; that he volunteered at Jackson County, Tennessee on or
about the 1st day of February A.D. 1818 for the term of six months and
continued in actual service in said war for the term of six months and was
honorably discharged at Columbia, Tenn(essee) on the (blank) of (blank) A.D.
1818 on account of (the) expiration of term of service as will appear by
the muster rolls of said Company.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to
which he may be entitled under the "Act granting additional bounty land to
certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service
of the United States," approved March 3, 1855. And refers to his former
declaration made under act of 1850 upon which he applied for Land Warrant
No. _______, for ____ acres, which he having never received, (and) is not
within his power to return.
He further declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under
any other act of Congress, nor made any application therefor, than the one
above referred to, under act of 1850 upon which (he) applied for, the said
Land Warrant, No. ________, for ____ acres, and the one now presented.
William T. Dickson
We, Abner H. Hancock and Elijah Kelley, Senr., residents of Pike County,
Arkansas, upon our Oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed
and acknowledged by Wm. T. Dickson in our presence, and that we believe from
the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical
person he represents himself to be.
Abner H. Kelley
Elijah Kelley, Sen.
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before
me, on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the
affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person he
represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of
office, at office in the County of Pike, State of Arkansas, the day and year
first above written.
I.D. Wall, J.P.
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Know All Men By These Presents:
That, I, William T. Dickson, of the County of Pike and State of Arkansas,
have constituted and appointed Wm. K. Sebastian of Washington City, D.C. my
true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, for me and in my name, to prosecute
and received from the United States the Bounty Land certificate, or warrant,
due me under existing Laws granting Bounty Land for services rendered in the
United States in the different wars, and generally to do all lawful acts and
things whatsoever touching the premises, and an attorney or attorneys under
him, for the purpose aforesaid to make, and at his pleasure to revoke,
hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name
legally do, or cause to be done, in the premises.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this thirteenth
day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
William T. Dickson (Seal)
Acknowledged and subscribed before the undersigned, Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Pike County, in the State of Arkansas.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of
office, at office in the town of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, this thirteenth day
of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Wm. R. McFarlin, Clk.
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Bounty Land Application of William T. Dickson, Act of March 3, 1855,
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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