[Page 1] State of Virginia County of Buchanan SS on this 22 day of december A D one thousand eigh hundred & fifty eigh personally appeard before me a Justice of the peace within and for the county and State afore said Sarah Estep aged 58 years a resident of the county of Buchanan and State of Virginia who being duly sworn according to law declars that she is the onley legitimate heir of John Frazier Sr. who accordin to the best information was borned about A D 1762[?] and died in the county of Carter in the State of Tenessee in A D 1814 and was married to Haner Graham and shee died in tennesee in 1827[?] and shee has herd her fathr frequently sa that he John Frazier Sr. was in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain in the Battell of Brandywine and that Shee Recollects Destinkley of Seeing one of his thums off and he stated that it was shot off in the Battell and the Bullet went threw his hand and he said there was a silk hankerchief drawed threw the wound and to the best of hir Recoltion he was a Captian and got his Discharge when peace was made. Sarah X Estep (her mark) (Seal)
[Page 2] We Sarah Hurley and William Hurley residents of Buchanan County in the State of Virginia upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledge by Sarah Estep in our presents and that from the generaly character of the appliants with whom we have been acquainted for many years we believe the statements are true and that she is the identical person that she recommends hirself to be. Sarah X Hurley (Seal) William X Hurley (seal) there marks
The foregoing declaration and affidavid sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above writen and I certify that I know the applyants to be creditable persons that the claimants is the persons she represents hirself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. Nathan Robinett J.P.
Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Estep of the State of Virginia County of Buchanan hereby make and constitute and appoint Edward Collins my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the department of the interior of the United Stats the certificate for a pension and land warrant
[Page 3] to which I am entitled as heir of John Frazier or his widdow for his military services as mentioned in the foregoing declaration hereby rattifying and confirming what sover he may my said attorny may do in obtaining a certificate and land warrant and collecting the same in the premises by virtue hereof in testimony whereof my hand and seal on the 19 day of December 1858 Sarah X Estep her mark (seal)
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State of Virginia County of Buchanan SS on this 29 day of December 1858 personally appeard before me Nathan Robinett majestrate duly authorize by law to take acknowledgements in and for the county afore said Sarah Estep subscriber to the foregoing and acknowledge the same to be hir act and deed for the purposes there in described. Nathan Robinett (seal)
State of Virginia county of Buchanan SS Jas. H. Gillespie Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State abovementioned do hereby certify that Nathan Robinett whose genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same was a magistrate in and for the county and state afore Said duly commissioned and Sworn and that all his
official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the afore said County Court is a County of record having general Jurisdiction.
[small page 4] given under my hand and seal of office at my office at the court house this the 29th day of January 1859. Jas. H. Gillespie Clk. [large seal]
May 1805. Indenture of William Frazier by John Frazier to Nathan Hendrix[?] to learn agriculture til William shall arrive at 21. 2nd Monday August 1805. We the Grand Jurors in behalf of the State do present two children belonging to John Frasure as being on sufferance. Film #847613 Court Records of Carter Co, TN 1804-1829, pp. 194, 211.
May 10, 1811 suveyed East TN Land Grants Roll #60 at McClung Library, Knoxville, TN, Book 3:429 #2304 Land granted to John Frazier, 7 acres in Carter Co. in Dist. of Washington, north bank of branch of Indian Creek, on Indian Creek Nobb.
