This is a letter my John Turner s/o John Turner and Mary Cloud wrote to claim his father's Rev. War pension for his brothers and sisters and himself. Their names are;

1-Benjamin Turner aged in 1852...71 years

2-Nancy Turner aged 68 years

3-Joseph Turner aged 60 years

4-William and Mary Turner aged 59 years

5-John Turner aged 64 years.

The way he put William and Mary together makes me think they were twins...but I haven't found any document to prove that. :-)

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State of Kentucky

County of Knox

On the first day of April 1852 personally appeared before

me the undersigned a Justice of the peace within and

for the county and state above mentioned John Turner

aged 64 years a resident of the county and state aforesaid

who being first duly sworn according to law doth state

upon his oath that he is the administrator of the estate

of Mary Turner, deceased, who was the wife of John

Turner, deceased, doth make the following arebration(?)

on behalf of the children and heirs, of the said John

Turner, deceased,and Mary Turner, deceased, for the pur-

poser(?) of obtaining the benifit of the act of the congress.

of the United States paper 4 July 1836 on the provision

of such acts of congress as will apply to the following Turner(?) case

doath declar upon his oath that John Turner ___(?)

deceased is the Identacle man, who was a soldier in the

war of the Revolution against Great Britton,

that he is informed and verally beleaves the said

John Turner enlisted in said war and belong to

the North Carolina Line and served in Captain

Bowman's Company and possably under some other

Captian during his service who was of the 1st Regiment

of Carolina Line commanded by Col. Clark--and

served in all over three years in the war aforesaid and

that the said John Turner is the Identacle man that

served as aforesaid and after serving out his full

term for which he enlisted was honerably discharged

and that said discharge has long since been lost

that the said Jno Turner is the Identacle man

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as I have always bin informed

who was married to Mary Cloud, the deceased mention

in the caption(?) of this declaration which took place before

on the close of the war of the Revolution against Great

Britton in the county of Stokes state of North

Carolina and before the year 1794

That shortley after the close of the war the said

John Turner and Mary his wife migrated from said

state to Clabern County Tennessee and there rem-

ained Ignerant of his right to a pension up to his

death which happened the 11 day of October 1825

leaving his wife Mary and some children who surviving

him - the widdow. and shortley after his death his

said widdow and children migrated to Knox County

Kentucky and there she remained a widdow and

Ignorant of her right never claimed a pension up

to her death which happened the 4th day of March

1844, leaving the following and only children who

survives the said John & Mary Turner, deceased,viz-

Benjamin Turner aged 71 years- Nancy Turner aged

68 years- Joseph Turner aged 60 years- William & Mary

Turner aged 59 years-John Turner aged 64 years

That the said John Turner having served his

country faithfully in the war of the Revolution afr.s.

(written on top is...to the close of war)

that he present this petition in right of those children

afr.s. to the aspar(?) meat(?) of the United States for a

pension money and bounty land(?) if entitled to the same

doubt not the department aforesaid that

covcs(?) as such cases under the law of the US--by arbber-(?)

loner(?) to the North Carolina milety rolls of the war

of the Revolution and the proof herewith respectfully

submitted will arived to the him aforesaid there claim

to a pension money and land aforesaid.

John Turner administrator

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Sue...notice that William and Mary were 59 years old in 1852. That would make them born in 1793. I searched all the counties for William and the only one that matches his age is William Turner h/o Stacy Smith. That's why I think William is the s/o John and Mary Cloud Turner. Mary Turner w/o Israel Minnard may be their daughter too???