July 5th, 1856
Mr. Alfred Cain Reedy post Roane
County Virginia
I request that you will prosecute my claim of Bounty
Land under act of September 28th 1850 and the amendatory acts thereto belonging
if I am entitled. You are authorized to review my land warrant. I
was drafted soldier in the company commanded by Captain Mathew McKown
in the war of 1812. I resided in the state of Virginia County of Mason
when I entered the service.
Very respectfully yours,
John X(his mark) Greathouse
Test: J.W. Cain
John Roach
State of Virginia
County of Roane
On this 4th day of August AD one thousand
eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared before me, John W
Cain, justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid
John Greathouse aged seventy-four years, a resident the Roane County
in the state of Virginia who being duly sworn according to law declares
that he is the identical John Greathouse named in the within and
the accompanying discharge of the date of the 29th of August 1814
and hereto admits he was drafted soldier according to general orders
in the company commanded by Mathew McKown of the 4th regiment of
the Virginia militia commanded by General Porter in the war of 1812
that he was drafted in the county of Mason sometime in May in the
year 1814 for the term of three months and continued in actual service
in said war for the term of three months and was honorably discharged
at Norfolk on the 29th day of August AD 1814 as will appear by my
discharge herewith annexed. He makes this declaration for the
purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which he may be entitled
under the act granting Bounty land to certain officers and Soldiers
who have been engaged in the military service of the United States
passed September 28th 1850 and the amendatory act thereunto belonging
never having received or knowing that he is entitled under any former
act of Congress.
John X(his mark) Greathouse
Test: Aquila Wood
John Roach
The handwritten copy of discharge
states:
John Greathouse having performed a three months Tour
of duty in the service of this United States at Norfolk in compliance with
General Orders of the United States Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of
Virginia bearing date the 8th day of March 1814 is hereby honourably discharged
August 29th 1814. Signed (appears to be George Hastings) Lt Col. Commdt.
4 R.bn.(?)
There is a handwritten statement
signed by William Burditt (Burdett?) and Robert Burke that they both
know that John Greathouse is dead, that they saw him buried and the
said Robert P. Burke made the coffin, and that John Greathouse died
on the 4th day of July A.D. 1866. The statement was sworn to
on the 2nd day of March, A.D. 1869.
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