State of Georgia
County of Heard
On this 11th day of November A.D. one thous-
sand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared
before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the
County and State aforesaid David Gamble aged
sixty one years a resident of Heard County in the state of
Georgia, who being duly sworn according to
law, declares that he is the identical man who
was a second seargent in the company comanded
by captain N. T. Martin in the South Carolina
Regiment of Volunteers commanded by Col Nash
in the war with Great Britain declared by the
United States on the 18th day of June 1812 that he
volunteered at Lawrence District South Carolina
on or about the 20th day of August A.D. 1813 for
the time of six months and continued in actual
Service in said war for the term of six months
and was honorably discharged at Fort Hawkins
on the 1st day of August A.D. 1814, as will appear by
the muster Rolls of said company
The certificate of discharge being lost or missing
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtain-
ing 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 the 28th 1850
David Gamble
Heard County
On
this the twenty eighth day of March
A. D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty
five
Personall appeared before me a Justice of the
Peace within and for the
County and state aforesaid David Gamble age sixty five
(65) years
a resident of County and State aforesaid who
being duly sworn
according to Law declares that he is the
identical David Gamble who
was a Second Sergeant in the Company
commanded by Captain
N. T. Martin in the regiment of South
Carolina Volunteers Commanded
by Col Nash in the War with Great Brittan
declared by the United States
on the 18 day of June 1812 Volunteer for the
time of Six Months and
continued in actual service in said War Six
Months and that he has
heretofore made application for Bounty Land
under the act of September
28 1850 and received a Land Warrant No not
recollected for Eighty
acres which he has since legally disposed of
and can not
now return.
He
makes this declaration for for the purpose of obtaining the
additional Bounty Land to which he may be
entitled under the act
approved March 3rd 1855 he also declares
that that he has never
applied for nor received under this or any other act of Congress
any Bounty Land Warrant except the one above
mentioned
and he hereby appoints N. M. Harris of Houston
Heard Co Ga to pros-
ecute his claim and receive his Land Warrant
when issued
David Gamble
David received Bounty Land Warrants #20703 (act of 28 Sep 1850) and #17221 (act of 3 Mar 1855) for 80 acres each based on these applications.
Source: David Gamble, pension no. SC 16877 & 11011; War of 1812 Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. C.
Note: The full pension file consists of 31 pages.
