(Samuel P. Fielder, s/o John L. Fielder)
State of Tennessee
Maury County
On this 14th day of April 1851
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within
and for the county and state aforesaid Powhatan Gordon, resident of Maury
County in the State of Tennessee, aged forty eight years, who being sworn
according to law, declares that he is the Regularly constituted and appointed
guardian of Samuel P. Fielder the only minor heir and son of John L. Fielder
deceased who was a Private in The Independent Company of Spies commanded
by Captain John Gordon, and Lieutenant James Patterson in the war with
the Creek Indians in the year 1813. That he volunteered and mustered into
the United States service at Fayetteville in the State of Tennessee on
or about the 24th day of September 1813 for the term of six months, and
was discharged at Huntsville in the state of Alabama on or about the last
day of April 1814 after a service of seven months and fourteen days, that
he again entered the service of the United States in the War declared by
the United States against Great Britain on the 18th of June 1812 as a Private
in the company commanded by Captain James Gaut ? in the Regiment commanded
by Colonal Henderson who fell at the Battle of New Orleans, that he volunteered
and mustered into the service of the United States at Nashville in the
state of Tennessee on or about the 3rd day of October 1814 for the term
of six months and was again honouralbly discharged on or about the 15th
day of April 1815 as will appear by reference to the muster and pay rolls
of said Companies, he the said Powhatan Gordon not having any knowledge
of what he did with his discharges if indeed he ever had any, that the
said John L. Fielder died in Maury County in the state of Tennessee on
or about the 17th day of September 1835. That no widow survived him on
the 28th September 1850 his widow having previously intermarried with one
Moses Johnson; that he left but one minor child whose name is Samuel P.
Fielder that he was born on or about the 18th day of September 1830 and
was twenty years old on or about the 18th day of September 1830 and that
he the said Powhatan Gordon was appointed guardian for the said Samuel
P. Fielder by the county court of Maury County in the state aforesaid on
the 4th day of February 1851 and still continues as such , as will appear
by the copy of the record herewith presented as proof. that he knows of
no family record setting forth particularly the day on which the said John
l. Fielder died, or the day on which the said Samuel P. Fielder was born
but that he knows the statement herein made to be true from his knowledge;
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land
to which the said Samuel P. Fielder may be entitled to by reason of the
services of the said John L. Fielder under the Act Granting Bounty Land
to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the Military
service of the United States approved 28th Sept. 1859.
Powhatan Gordon
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I
certify that the said Powhatan Gordan is a man of veracity and of the age
above stated.
John E. Williams
State of Tennessee
Maury County
On this 14th day of April, 1851 personally appeared before the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid Henry
G. Cummings aged forty eight years and Loyd Kelley aged forty three years
who being duly sworn according to Law, declares that they were well acquainted
with John L. Fielder named in the within declaration that he died at or
about the time set forth in the declaration, that no widow survived him
on the 28th of September 1850. That he has left only one minor child, Samuel
P. Fielder, whose age is correctly set forth in the declatation to the
best of their belief. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date
above.
Henry G. Cummins
Loyd Kelley
John E. Williams
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