BOUNTY LAND WARRANT PAPERS
Joseph Longley, deceased
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DECLARATION OF JOEL LONGLEY
STATE OF TENNESSEE
COUNTY OF McMINN On this fifth day of May A.D. one thousand eight
hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me, John B.
Coxey, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County
and State aforesaid, Joel Longley, a resident of Polk County
in the state of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to
law, declares as appears from the records that he is the guardian
of Martha Jane Longley, whose age is twenty one years on the
twenty second day of February A.D. 1851, and who is the minor
child of Joseph Longley who died on or about the twenty fifth
day of November A.D. 1830, leaving no widow now surviving
him, and who was a private in the Company commanded by Capt.
J. B. Long in the 39th Regiment of United States Infantry commanded
by Col. John Williams in the war with Great Britain. That the
said Joseph Longley enlisted at Jennens Creek, Jackson County,
Tennessee on the 18th day of November A.D. 1813 for the term
of twelve months and continued in active service in said war
for the term of twelve months, and was honorably discharged at
Fort Montgomery in Mississippi territory on account of expiration
of term on the 13th day of November A.D. 1814, as will appear
by the muster rolls of said company. The said Joel Longley as
guardian makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining
from the department of the Interior (for the benefit of the said
minor child Martha Longley) the certificate or warrant
for bounty land to which the said Martha Longley may be entitled
under the act of Congress passed September 28th 1850." Witness:
David Bradford
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and date above written
JOEL LONGLEY John B. Coxey, J.P. for Polk County
STATE OF TENNESSEE
COUNTY OF McMINN On this fifth day of May A.D. one thousand eight
hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me, John B.
Coxey, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County
and State aforesaid, Joel Longley, who being duly sworn according
to law saith that he was in the service of the United States
in the years A.D. 1813 & 1814 as a private attached to the
Company of Capt. J. B. Long in the written declaration
mentioned, that he was personally well acquainted with and is
the brother of Joseph Longley deceased, that he was a private
attached to and belonging to said Company set forth in the above
declaration. He further states that he saw his brother Joseph
Longley die and assisted in his burial and that the widow is
also dead and that he knows not of any record of the death
of either the said widow or of her age.
Witness: David Bradford
Sworn and subscribed before me on the
day and date above written JOEL LONGLEY
John B. Coxey, J.P. for Polk County
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