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The State of Mississippi Hancock County |
On this third day of October AD, 1853, personally appeared before me Wiley P. Harris, Judge of the Circuit Court, 2nd Judicial District Miss, now in session for the County aforesaid and in the State aforesaid Ms. Rebecca Nixon a resident of said County aged 65 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the declaration following, to wit; That she is the widow of George Henry Nixon who was a Lieutentnant Colonel of the 13th Regiment of Mississippi Territory Militia in the war with Great Britain of 1812. That she was married to the said George Henry Nixon on the 2Sth day of May 1806. That her husband the aforesaid George Henry Nixon died on the 20th day of August 1824 at Pearlington in said County in consequence of disease contracted in the service during the said war and in the line of his dutv as an officer and that she now is and has always remained a widow ever since that period. She further states that she has received Land Warrant No.
21.367 for 160 acres, issued under the act of September 28th 1850 by reason of the service^ of her said husband. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the half-pay-r?o which she is entitled under the provisions of the first section of the Act of Congress of the 3rd of February AD 1853, and hereby constitutes Samuel White her attorney to present said claim to the Commissioner of Pension and receive the certificate that may issue thereupon.
Rebecca Nixon
Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court on the day above written
W. O. Harris, J. S.
(Certificate of elk over)
The State of Mississippi
Hancock County | Benjamin Sones Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Wiley P. Harris whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit, is and was at the time of signing the same Judge of the Circuit Court, in and for the County and State duly commissioned and sworn. That all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid court is a court of record, having general jurisdiction. Given under my hand and seal of office at Gainesville in said county this 3rd day of October AD 1853.
B. Sones Clk.