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On this 24th day of May one Thousand Eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, NANCY BARTLET aged fifty Seven years, a resident of Claiborne County in the State of Tennessee who being duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the Widow of JOHN BARTLET deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Solomon DOBKINS in the ____ Regiment of Tennessee Militia commanded by Colonel Samuel BUNCH in the war with the Creek Indians and that her said husband drafted at his muster ground in said County on the Eighth day of January one Thousand Eight hundred and fourteen for the term of six months and continued in actual service in said war for the term of four months and was honorably discharged at Washington in Rhea County in said State of Tennessee on the _________ day of May one Thousand Eight hundred and fourteen. She further states that she was married to the said JOHN BARTLET in said County on the twenty third day of December one Thousand Eight hundred and Eight by Joab HILL, Esq. and that her name before said marriage was NANCY MASON, that her said husband died at his residence in said County on the twenty seventh day of January one Thousand Eight hundred and forty eight and that he never received any bounty land under any former act of Congress and that she is still a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the acts passed 29th September 1850.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Contributed by Phyllis Cotter, descendant of John Bartlett and Nancy Mason. John Bartlett was the son of Joseph Bartlett and his first wife Sarah? Sims, Team #11.
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